im starting to potty train my lil boy in january i just want to have a plan set like ill get him comfortable with the bathroom then his potty and such but i wasnt sure if when we start to uses the potty if i should make the transition in to training pants or continue in diapers untill he has more of a hang of things. also any other tips will help
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Switch to pull-ups. This will help him to realize that he is no longer a baby and he gets to start the transition to big boy underwear. They are just as good as diapers but are easier for him to pull on and off by himself. Show him how they work and explain what it is for.
Good luck.
We bought the training diapers for our daughter, but she didn’t really get the difference between those and regular diapers, and the chemical reaction that makes them cold when you pee gave her a bad reaction. We ended up just staying home for a week and letting her run around naked, she stopped having accidents after three days (she’s 2 years and 2 months old). We still put a diaper on her at naptime and bedtime, but that’s it.
I think if you are going to potty train, you should go right to underwear and use pull ups at night . Pull ups are great but they are really no different than a diaper. Kids have a hard time knowing that they are wet. If you go straight to underwear, they will feel the wetness and associate the feeling before that with needing to get to the bathroom. I think pull ups are great for night time since it takes kids a long time to be able to control their bladders through the night and they generally don’t wake to go to the bathroom until after day time potty training is successful.
That’s just my take on it but you may find that pull ups work well for you. Either way, good luck!
Use pull-ups, they are much better for potty training than diapers. They have rip away sides and feel more like underwear (so they say). Don’t force him. Don’t get me wrong, i’m not trying to tell you how to raise your son, but I have a 3 year old who is stubborn as can be in potty training. He has no problem peeing on the potty but when it comes to #2, he refuses! I don’t know what he doesn’t like about it, but i’ve tried everything to try to get him to go. Everyone tells me that they’ll do it in their own time, and I sure hope it’s soon. Hopefully you’ll have better luck with your little boy than i’m having with mine
Good luck with the training!
Switch straight to bigboy underwear. Using pull ups and the such teachs the child nothing, as they still work like a diaper, and as such the child continues to pee and poo in them with no clue.
I potty trained my son in 2 wks by going straight to underwear. I sat him down, gave him a congratulations speech, told him what his potty chair was for, and put on his big boy underwear, and wished him luck. 2 hours later, he’d wet his pants. All I had to say, was uh oh, try harder next time. He didn’t like being wet. It was pretty much smooth sailing from there.
Good luck!
I found both ways useless(I am assuming you are referring to pull ups and the like). Training pants were really diapers with “big kid” characters on it My daughter used them like diapers. I found the best way for her was to buy actual cloth training pants. Gerber makes them and they are thicker than actual panties or underwear (they absorb some liquid) but not so thick that they can’t feel when they are wet. I used those at home while we worked on connecting the dots of what it feels like to pee and the act of going. I also let my daughter just be naked, then I just had to clean up the floor and not do 50 million loads of laundry. Thats me. Once she started to get the hang of it on a regular basis I used the cloth training pants and a plastic diaper cover panty that went over top of the training pants for when we went out.
Treats/rewards for going.
Its a long process!! There will be days of 2 steps forward and 1 step back, months with no accidents and then boom! accident, accident, accident and then back to normal.
Get comfy, its going to be a long ride!
Good luck!
I would go straight to underware. It is a bit messy but I feel they need that wet gross feeling in order to get the hang of it. If he is ready, you wont have many accidents. My son was 3, I didnt feel he was ready earlier, my daughter was 2.5 when they trained. It took a week and we had little accidents. You should plan on staying home as much as possible for the first few days. When you do go out have him go before you leave and when you are at the store or where ever take him to the bathroom when you get there, they always seem to have to go when you are far away from the bathroom. Have a bag packed with pants underware, socks and shoes and leave it in the car incase he does have an accident.
I took my daughter shopping to pick out her own underware, it gave her control and felt like a big girl, I gave her money, she put it in her pocket and she paid for them. If you celebrate christmas you could have Santa bring him special underware with a book, or stickers and a chart ( i used a sticker chart with my son, his favorite character stickers, he got one for pee and 3 for poop.) with a note saying when you go like a big boy for X amount of time mail the chart to Santa and he will pay a special visit and leave a gift, or mail a special gift. If he is old enough to “get” the idea of Santa.
If you keep him in diapers, it wont be something new. For it to work quickly they need to experience newness and feeling they are a big boy. If he is really ready it shouldnt take long, if it takes more than a few weeks, i would say he isnt ready yet, and you will have to decide whether it is worth it now or wait a month and try again. There is nothing wrong if you decide to wait if he isnt ready, it will be easier on you and him. I have known people to potty train for 6 months to a year, I feel this is rediculous and a waste of time.
Good Luck.