Thread: OK I NEED potty training help

Originally Posted by luvcub

This sounds awful,but many yrs ago when I was training my daughter,she just wouldnt get it,after days of pulling my hair out,speaking to my pedi,she whispers in my ear,she says----make her wear her panties on her head,lmao,I said WHAT?----yes,she says,they hate that,if there wet,they want them off there body fast,she said a granny woman told her about this,and 1 of her patients mommy tryed and it worked.She says it doesnt hurt them,may sound bad,but if it works thats a wonderful thing.
So I go home,she pees her panties,I look at her and smile-lmao,stuck her wet panties on her head,made her wear them for like 20 minutes,she bellowed,lmao,screamed,thru a bad fit,but she wore those darn drawers on her head,yes she did,lol,and she peed them again,the next day,she wore the drawers once again,had a short fit,then guess what???? Bingo,she never did it ever again,she was broke. Sounds mean,sounds odd,but you never know what will work.

I knew a lady that did that to her daughter when she wet the bed but she made her wear them much longer than a few minutes The problem is when he pees himself he couldnt careless if he walks around in it all day

Originally Posted by mirage7000

Omg was son was terrible. Finally had to make a game out of it. Threw a few Cherrios cereal in the toilet bowl and told him to shoot at them. It worked and now I can laugh about it! Wish you the best of luck!

yep that worked great with my first son.......not this one

He was SO excited when we went and got more new udies with Spongebob on them the other day I thought oh surely he will do it this time.......nope nothing. I even let him go the other day w/out anything on thinking well since I know he stops to go potty he will stop and think go to the potty right??? WRONG he took a dump in my son's room

Originally Posted by BeanieLuvR

I don't have any advice. I just wanted to wish you and ilovecats good luck. It has to be very frustrating.

thanx I really need it

I do feel your pain. My second son (also my youngest!) would mostly pee in the potty, but never poo. He was about 3 1/2. My pede told me not to push it. Easy for him to say, he wasn't cleaning it up.

My son loved motorcycles at the time. We would buy the ones at Walmart that were like 2 bucks a peice. He had a whole bucket full. His motorcycles were his absolute favorite thing in the whole world. One day I was so fed up when pooped his pants I took them all away. He wasn't allowed to have them back until he used the potty. He started using the potty that very next day. For him it was just laziness. I hit him where it hurt by taking his motorcylces.

Good luck.

Originally Posted by magenta

I do feel your pain. My second son (also my youngest!) would mostly pee in the potty, but never poo. He was about 3 1/2. My pede told me not to push it. Easy for him to say, he wasn't cleaning it up.

My son loved motorcycles at the time. We would buy the ones at Walmart that were like 2 bucks a peice. He had a whole bucket full. His motorcycles were his absolute favorite thing in the whole world. One day I was so fed up when pooped his pants I took them all away. He wasn't allowed to have them back until he used the potty. He started using the potty that very next day. For him it was just laziness. I hit him where it hurt by taking his motorcylces.

Good luck.

that might be it for Ethan as well he LOVES anything with wheels and there are a ton of them here lol

Originally Posted by freeplease

Are there any males around that your son really enjoys spending time with? I mean, gets REALLY excited when he hears they're coming over? Have him spend some quality potty time with that guy. Tell your son that this special person thinks that big guys who use the potty are the coolest. And how much fun it would be to hang out with this big guy, but he can only do it if he can learn to potty like the big guys.

Sometimes it's easier for boys to learn if they have a guy around to show them the ropes.

I had girls, so my situation was a bit different. But I did have friends who had boys, and I understand your dilema. One thing I did with my girls, I let them pick out panties themselves. But they couldn't just wear them any old time. They were rewards. They wore those ugly white training pants, with rubber pants over them. That way, they knew when they had an accident, but my carpets, couches, whatever, didn't suffer the consequences. Pretty soon, they decided they didn't like the feeling of wet pants covered in plastic, and got with the program. Then they got the reward panties. Oh happy day!

Good luck. Training is not fun. But I've never seen a high school graduate in pull ups, so it can be done. lol

Ethan gets all excited when dad comes home and he has tried taking him and he does get excited when dad goes potty but couldnt careless about doing it himself lol I wonder if I get some of those plastic covers for his undies if that might make him think twice about going on himself

Originally Posted by fleabones3

I recently read a article on this a while back, and it may sound mean or too tough... but...

It was written by a father and a doctor. It said that any child over the age of 2 knows the sensations of having to go, and are completely old enough and ready to be trained. At the age of your son, it sounds like now its more of a power struggle.
The article said to throw away all diapers and such, take all toys out of their room. hand him the underwear, tell him thats what he is going to wear from now on. He has to earn his toys back, 1 at a time, by " going to the potty". Now, he is sure to have some accidents, but I am sure you will know what is a true accident, and what is being lazy.
It sounds tough, but I had to pretty much do that with one of my kids too.

Please have him throughly checked out by a doctor to make sure it is really laziness before you go to this extreme. My sissys little boy has serious issues w/ his bladder and is still at 5 having accidents that he just can't control. He doesn't complain of pain and his mom thought it was laziness, too, but the doc says no way and to never punish him over it. Not saying it IS a medical problem w/ yours, just saying pls find out before punishing.

Also wanted to add... he does KNOW when he needs to pee most of the time, he gets the sensation, he just sometimes can not (not will not, simply can't) control it.