potty training

I dont have kids yet but allow me to comment. Potty training should start as early as the kids start sitting or crawling, and it will get used to the routine. At three years it is hard to train but just try sweet talking him to do so. Give him tokens of appreciation everytime he remembers to use the potty. Try as much to encourage him by even buying him presents he likes most and it doesnt work try doing the opposite by denying him the things he loves most everytime he poo poos in his pants. All the best.

For boy, you will need one potty with a higher front to avoid accidents. Tell him you're pleased when he sits on the potty, but don't go overboard. Trainer pants are useful when potty training. Pull-up diapers are convenient, especially when you are out, because they're disposable. Ordinary cotton cloth pants are very comfortable and relatively cheap.

When we first started potty training my grandson, my sister in law gave me the greatest hint. I've never dealt with potty training a boy before, it IS different! We had problems with him being interested, for one, and we also had problems with him hitting the potty and not soiling the floor. (He did NOT want to sit on the potty to pee because 'Daddy doesn't') So going from that standpoint, she told us to keep a little plastic cup full of Cheerios on the toilet tank top. Each time he had to pee he had to throw a Cheerio into the toilet, and then try and hit it with his stream. For some reason he loved this idea, and he was eager not to soil himself and aiming for the Cheerio became more like a game lol. Anyways, he'd be rushing to be the first one in there to throw the Cheerio in, and concentrate on getting his stream to the right place. I think too often we make such a big deal out of learning. Turning it into sort of a game made all the difference in the world, and he quickly quit using the daytime diapers. Cheerios are cheap, and better than that, they float until flushed. This turned out to be one of the best tricks I've learned from my s-i-l!

My little guy was hard to potty train at first, he just was not wanting to go in the potty at all and we tried everything. I got tired and gave up for a few days to give he and I a break. And the little guy just picked it up on his own! From then on he has been going by himself. He was my fifth one to potty train and he turned out to be the easy one. lol

The cheerios are a great idea, I didn't think of it when my boys were training. They're 19 and 20 now. I pretty much let them do it themselves. I bought a potty for each of them, let them pick it out, a little one that was their size and had a guard on the front. I also let them go with me to pick out underwear for when they were able to use them. That was a huge incentive! Every child develops differently and some take longer than others to recognize that they need to go potty or to be able to hold their bladders if they're busy and don't want to stop. And does he have friends who are potty trained? That could also help, looking up to them and wanting to emulate them. Don't make it into a battle!! He'll succeed in his own time. If you push it too hard you're just defeating your goal. Good luck!

You have to make it fun for him or you will be trying for what seems like forever. Put a frootloop in the toilet and get him to try to aim inside it, I know it sounds crazy but it will be fun for him, and it won't back up your septic.