help potty training a 2 year old

you can also try goldfish tell him when he pees in the potty it will make the fish swim or put soap in it and let him make bubbles.these are things i did when i worked at a preschool, but now i am working with my own 18 month old alot different when its your own i think

I am a mother of four children. When I started potty training. My mom would toss some cheerrie O's in the toliet. She would tell them to aim and sink the O's. Now they make some little things you put in the toliet and they pee on them and they sink. They say if you make it fun they will train better. When I trained my daughter. We bought a potty that played music if you pee pee in it. It help out alot. Until she figured it out and she make it sing for no reason. lol. Hope this will help.

I also have a 2 year old. I began tarining him when he was flexible. That was when he was about 1 year old. I strated training him at home and gradually even outdoors. That was regarding the peeing part. But when it comes to passing motion, he still uses diapers but for the past 2 days he is making an attempt to sit on the closet in the morning. On the way of progress. In the aspect of potty training, I firmly believe that children needs to understand on their own without too much pressure. I have tried using potty for my child, but he will always open the tap and play with potty. He never used it and it was a waste of money.

I have read in one potty training book and even watched in a free potty training dvd, that you can ask your kid to potty train a doll (or a teddy bear). I dont know if it will work coz i havent tried it but it sure deviates from the tradition way of potty training. They were saying that if the child can teach the doll, then he must have grasped the concept, thus applying it to himself will be easier. I will also suggest that you use a "poop & pee-pee chart", he gets a sticker for every pee & poop on his potty... make potty training a fun and non-traumatic as possible. i hope it works.

In general, boys take longer. Don't push it. We started and restarted many times before my son actually caught on. It is not a sign of stubborness or intellect. Each child is an individual. It is not a race or a contest so beware of other mothers comparing their kids to yours. Be patient. He WILL get it. As for ideas, my son was big into dinosaurs. I bought a big bag of those little plastic dinosaurs. If he was successful, he got a "potty toy". It was great incentive.

I have three daughters, the youngest is 18 months old and we are beginning potty training. The cheerios trick sounds good, but wouldn't work with girls I think. I always used the good old fashioned reward trick. They got to go to the snack cabinet for a potty. My baby is too young to make the connection and go to the potty when she has to, but she isn't scared or apprehensive of the toilet at all. Just try not to get frustrated and go overboard when he does use it, he will love making you happy!!