Potty Training for the First Time

hi there. i have a 19-month old son and we already started to little by little train him to the basics of potty training. i have read about potty training articles over the net and always eager to have my son potty trained. but then again, i should not force my son to it just yet if he is not ready. then i have read about cloth diaper. have you tried it? they said pull ups are just diapers and it will not help in potty training. so i have bought cloth diapers and he is on cloth diaper for 3 months now. i also teach him what is pee and poop. i also encourage him to tell us when he is about to pee and poop. he will said it but he had already did it :) i also tell his nanny to let him pee on the comfort room to make it a habit, but sadly we can not really relay on nanny to teach our child. i am a working mom and sometimes it frustrates me for not being there to teach my son. but again, my son is still young and i know he will learn it naturally. it is a long and slow process but i know i can do it. and you can do it too mommy. if he has the signs grab it. if he does not want a dirty diaper put it off and let him run the house without it. my son is like that already, he will tell us that he is wet already and want to be changed. also, you can buy potty training pants. it is like an a padded underwear and is waterproof. your son can easily pull it down whenever we wants to pee and because it is waterproof you can avoid incidence of poops and pees all over the house. you can wash it and use it like an underwear. goodluck mommy!

I am now potty training Lil Keith, who is 28 months old. He is handling the going to pee part wonderfully but the poopy part is not going great. We do hi-5's every time he goes to peen in the potty and I intend on getting him some stickers this weekend and create a sticker chart. He is afraid to poop in the potty yet but we will get there. One problem we are facing is that we bought him a small potty chair that sits on the floor and we bought the potty ring that sits on top of the toilet.... he does not like the potty ring he would rather use the chair. Good luck. Wish I could be more help. He pees sitting down.

We are entering this stage with our first child too. He can tell us when he wants a diaper change, wants to have a turn sitting on the potty (although he's scared of it so we're going to get a little potty for him), and will sit and watch us. (Which, by the way, gets awkward when he spends the entire time yelling at you because he wants a turn on the potty, but when you give him a turn, he cries because he's scared. Definitely need to go get a potty chair). We're not going to get pull-ups. My mother in law bought him cute underwear and once I'm sure he's ready, we're just going to sit him on the potty about 10 minutes after each meal and each time he has a drink. We might do a sticker chart. This worked for my cousin's first child but not for her second. Then again, her second refused to potty train for a while and then one week just decided he was going to use the potty. He basically trained himself.

Toddlers are so afraid to sit in a toilet bowl for the first time, What I did to my little boy when he was young is that I let him poo in a newspaper. Yes, in a newspaper so that he is comfortable to poo while squatting. It is really great that your son is eager to learn on his own.

When I potty trained my sons I did it right on the big toilet. I just sat them backwards, otherwords facing the back of the toilet. This made them feel safer, of not falling in with sitting the right way. That saves having to get them to use it later. I just sat in there with them and when they went I would praise them and say they did a good thing. It took only a few days to train for peepee, a little longer for the poo. But it only took a week. Of course the were almost three then and were ready.

it is good make him trained from this age so that he will practice link to have healthy all you have do just every two hours you have make take to potty make some sound of wisle so that he reconfigured your sound day by day you will do this he comes to practice. after some he will himself ask for the potty

Again, a long time ago for us too, but a few pointers. Make it a happy, enjoyable experience. Lots of praise when he performs no matter how small and especially no matter how smelly! haha Put him on the potty after meals, with you in the kitchen while you tidy up. No matter if he does nothing but he will feel close to you and 'part of the kirk' and not 'banished to the bog'. It makes life so much easier when they can ask to go to the loo. Love your boy. Time passes so quickly.

I don't know if I could be much help; it's been many years ago for me. But I remember that it was hardest to do with my first born. I suppose the key is to get him to let you know when he has the urge. But to do that, I think you have to train him by taking him to do potty regularly. When he does not have the urge, we still have to follow the schedule even if that means waiting for sometime in the bathroom until he finishes.