Posted by
izaafaisal
18 yrs ago
hey
i'm having trouble potty training my 2yr old boy, whenever i take him to the toilet and ask him to do wee wee he would make exactly the same sounds im making as he has no clue apparantly of wat 'wee wee' is....!!!!! he looks around in excitement as he loves to be in there for his pasty(teeth brush), hand wash and bath but he does not understand wat "wee wee" or "poo" is.... how do i teach him that????????
He sometimes tell me when he's pooped (offcourse in his diapers) by saying "mama, baby poo yukh (euwww)" and touch his diaper but when i get him to sit on his potty he would be amazed and play around but do 'nothing'.
I have no idea how to start at the potty training thing as my son has NO idea wat it is....!!! Also tell me if i'm already too late to do it? He's my first child by the way.
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it also might be a little early - some are ready at 2 some are not - try gina ford potty training book - she lists signs for when the kids are ready? I have sort of tried with mine for a bit - but did not really get anywhere so am leaving it for another 3-4 months
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2 years may be a bit early, but it certainly is worth a shot. Certainly not too late. If nothing is working after a few days, stop and wait a month or so, then try again.
You should remove all rugs and let him run around without a diaper as much as you can. No child likes to pee himself. This will make him understand the concept. Yes, you will be cleaning up pee spills but that's just part of the process. ;)
"when you and your hubby go, do you leave the door open?"
This is the big one. If they see you go. Even our 1½ year old wants to sit on the potty.
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thanks everyone for your advice.....i don't see any signs in him yet as well so will give it some time ....! Meanwhile i'll read some books on the subject.
"when you and your hubby go, do you leave the door open?"
isn't it a bit awkward and disturbing?
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""when you and your hubby go, do you leave the door open?"
isn't it a bit awkward and disturbing?"
TMI warning on the below.
I guess it depends on cultural and personal mores. My wife and I really aren't bothered. We never closed the toilet door even before we had kids. This is pretty typical Swedish. I've seen people at parties leave the toilet door open so they can keep chatting. Many people find this odd. ;)
In any case it may be worth doing it for a while in order to make toilet training easier.
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Hi izaafaisal, my boy is around yours age (almost 22 months to be exact). And he's sort of successfully potty trained for around 2 months. He now shouts 'wee wee' when he wants to and we hurry off to get him the potty. Very few accidents ever since he got the hang of it.
How we did: he's just in undies during the day with no nappies on. In the very beginning we had to change him like 10 undies a day. He didn't seem to be interested in the potty nor was he annoyed by wetting his pants at all. But every time after he wet the floor we reminded him to tell us when he wanted to and the potty is where he should be wee-ing in. The first two weeks I didn't see any success I also thought he wasn't ready yet. It took us like 1 month or so and one day he successfully wee in the potty. We cheered for him and he was so happy. It took another like half a month or so to practise though.
Meanwhile we let him see how we use the toilet. The first time he saw how daddy did he was so amazed. Then one day he successfully did it himself too he said 'like daddy'. It really isn't a bit awkward at all. The best way to teach them is to let them see how you do it.
Anyway, my opinion is 2 years is never too early or too late. The key is to persist. If you let him in nappy one day and no nappy next day he will be so confused. Once you are determined to train him, just let accidents happen.
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"The key is to persist. If you let him in nappy one day and no nappy next day he will be so confused. "
This, by the way, is a classic HK problem. There are parents who let their helpers potty train the kids Mon-Sat. Then on Sunday the parents can't be bothered and so they put a nappy on. Unsurprisingly, those kids take forever to potty train.
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Nicher, where did you find the undies?
I also want to start with mine. he's 18 months old. My sis's baby who's 2 months younger than he is was trained at 9 months, so everybody looked askance at me when we went home.
but find the undies for big babies not for 18 month old ones.
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Nicher, where did you find the undies?
I also want to start with mine. he's 18 months old. My sis's baby who's 2 months younger than he is was trained at 9 months, so everybody looked askance at me when we went home.
but find the undies for big babies not for 18 month old ones.
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Hi Goddess,
I bought the undies from Stanley Market. You prob will find them a bit too big at his age now, but we just sort of use them at home to let him practise pulling up and down his pants.
I initially didn't want to train him that early either, but my mom and older relatives gave me a lot of pressure saying that he's more than ready at 1.5 years old and it happens to be summer time which is perfect for potty training etc etc. So...I just follow with the flow...
Honestly, when we we went on a trip last week, I did let him wear pull-up nappies coz of the long car rides and I couldn't afford accidents to happen. He still managed to tell us he wanted to pee (we had a 'wee wee' container ready on hand, in case we couldn't find a decent toilet nearby)
And the nappies were almost never wet at all.
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Thanks!! I'll definitely go to Stanley to look for them. unfortunately the ones on the mainland all have holes as the locals are seemingly too lazy to pull things up and down!!
yes, i too want to take advantage f the summer months. mine will wee if we take his nappy off and tell him to do it, so it hink it's time to start.
yes, i also feel pressured, because my mum's like 'not yet'???????
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Is it a chinese thing for babies to be trained before they turn 2? My cousin was made to 'poo' after meals. His parents would hover him over a newspaper on the floor until he did a poo or wee. And that was when he was like 6 months old. I started getting my son accustomed to peeing and sometimes pooing in the toilet but not sitting on it, since he was 5 months. So he knows when I put him over the toilet that he needs to do something. I just had to catch him at it, then I'd rush him over the toilet. Plus, he's seen us use it so he knows what it's for.
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cd
18 yrs ago
yes I think its a chinese thing to train them so early, certainly in the UK, 2 1/2 seems to be the average., much later for night time training.
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"Infant potty training (before age 2) is gaining grounds --even in the US"
Excellent. The diaper industry is finally losing some ground.
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