Potty Training: Conquering 5 Common Potty Problems

my four year old daughter pees in front of the toilet. she will get there and dance around holding her self for several minutes, then she pees. i don't understand. my oldest(a girl) did a similar thing but we found it was for attention. my boy never had any real problems, he had to go and he went. is this a girl thing. it frustates me and my wife very much!

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i found a SOLUTION! food coloring. sounds like a ridiculous mess... but it works the very first time. red & yellow make orange. blue & yellow make green. so have food coloring (blue / red) in the restroom, out of their reach. I made sure i added drop before leaving, so the water would remind her if she has to go. WORKED LIKE A CHARM. no accidents no fights and no fear. wanna go potty and make colors? 1 drop of color and your demonstation is all u need

Carrying Post-it notes isn't the only solution to preventing the auto-flush in public restrooms. Placing a long piece of toilet paper, draped over the sensor works just as well.

My little guy has no problems using the potty either going #1 or #2. My problem is he just doesn't wanna stop using it. He will say he has to go #1 even a minute after he has already done so. I've tried everything to let him know the potty isn't something to play with. I'm afraid with me getting frustrated with him thinking it's more like a toy that I'm holding him back. I'd love to hear some suggestions.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but for little boys, throwing a few cheerios or fruit loops into the toilet and having them "aim" at them may be a motivating.

My daughter she is three years old and she still isn't potty yet i started her when she was one and at that time she was peeing and pooping and then when she turn three she started having accidents on herself sometimes i be wanting to give up and just keep the diapers on even though i still do put diapers on her i don't know is the diapers confusing her i need some advice on what to do.

my son has no desire to use the potty except at bathtime any advise?

My daughter was potty trained at about 3 yrs old except she continued to wet the bed. Then she started wetting her underwear. We took her to an Urologist for testing. She had a xray of the kidneys. The xray showed a lot of backed up stool in her colon that was putting pressure on her bladder causing her accidents. The doctor had us give her an edema twice, 24 hrs apart, to clean her out. Then start her on Miralax (stool softner). It eliminated the accidents & bed wetting.

I have a son whos will be 2 on 9/11. He loves sitting on the potty n will take his diaper off when hes wet but he wont use the potty. We've just started potty training but i wanted 2 know what 2 do..right now im open 2 anything so just let me know what yall think Thanks

we got my 5yr old potty trained during the day telling her that if she wanted to go to school like her big sister she had to go on the potty but she keeps wetting the bed at night, ive tried bribing her with nickels but it didnt last long, any suggestions? she starts Kindergaarten in a month and i dont want her to be made fun of

My son will be 3 in two months and shows NO sign of wanting to use the potty. My husband and I are always taking him and he'll try (sometimes w/a lot of whining) but otherwise he has no interest. They have been working w/ him at school but still no use. He has been in pull ups now for awhile and I've tried putting underwear on and then pull up so he feels it but nothing. It doesn't seem to bother him. Am I pushing it too much? Help!

My son is pretty well potty trained and can go days doing fine. Then I may ask him a dozen times if he has to go and he will say no- a few seconds later he has done both- I am getting frustrated as to what to do.

Hi my son is 3yrs old and he is potty train but when it comes to poop he will not go to the toilet he ask for a diaper i've try to take him to the toilet and reward him but he just wont go to the toilet and pee he is fine. Can anyone tell me what to do.

The one sign that she's not showing is that it absolutelly doesn't seem to bother her if she's wet or pooped. Hm, any suggestions? We thought of simply not buying any more diapers/pullups. I like the idea of giving imediate reward with M&M's. I just have a gut feeling that her refuasl to go is simply her playing with us. Please advise! Thank you!

Also, nothing happened in her daily routine that we can attribute the change of heart, nothing unusual. And, she's done this a few times before where she'll ask for potty and use it, and then change her mind again. We've bribed with toys and have also promised to make a party for her. We've told her only big girls have parties and she seemed so motivated by that, but then still changes her mind and refuses to use the potty. She's showing all of the signs that she's ready to switch.

My daughter is two months away from 3 years old. She has definitelly shown to us that she knows how to do #1 and #2 on the toilet and potty chair. She has shown interest in wearing big kid underwear and using the potty and has been very good with it for few days and then one day she decides she doesn't want to anymore. It seems to me that she's playing with this because she understands how much it means to us so she's watching for our reactions. What od I do?

Hi my daughter will be 2 in the end of june when i put her in her room for a nap or at night she like to play in her poop and sometimes she even eats it i have done all i can and its getting worse she does it sometimes even 5 times a day what can i do i try to potty training her she shows no interest please help im over my head with this...

my son ran out of diapers just before his third b-day and i told him i was not going to buy anymore. the first few days were tough but he got the peeing part down flat. he will be four next month and still won't poop in the potty. he has only done it twice in the last year.

I have a 3 1/2 year -old boy who'll go 80% of the time on the potty. The other times he's too busy or careless, I've tried talking to him, rewarding him, taking his favorite toy away.. all to no avail. I am hoping that by the age of 4, yes four, we'll overcome this hurdle just to face another issue.

bridgent: I would have your daughter checked out by her pediatrician. It could be a urinary tract infection. My daughter was also potty trained and started having sudden accidents, it turned out to be a UTI.

b.i.bennett what worked with my son when I hit the refusal mode was to let him pee outside he thought it was great to pee off the steps and as the weather got colder he made the transition back to the house no probelm

My 18 month daughter will stay dry for hours in her big girl undies and if she just can't hold it will run to the bathroom say potty and proceed to pee on the floor then she wants to sit on the potty. You can ask her any other time if she needs to go potty and she will run to the bathroom pull her pants down and sit on the potty but she will not pee. Any suggestion on getting this last connection in the process.

I have an almost 4 yr old girl. She has been potty trained for over a year with little to no accidents, she was even sleeping through the night without a diaper. Then, as if out of the blue, she wets her pants several times a day and last night she wet the bed. This has been only going on for a week, any advice?

My son is four years old he has been potty trained for a while now and now that he is four he has started pooping in his pants again. It is driveing me crazy he is to old to be doing this again. Could it have something to do with his 9 month old little brother or is he just being lazy HELP!!

My son has been Potty trained for a while now and now that he is four years old he has just now started pooping in his under wear again. Its driveing me crazy what do I do and what has happen to make him do this at four?

My 2 year old daughter loves to sit on the toliet AFTER she goes in her diaper..I know to encourage sitting on it first but its been a month and I think she thinks this is normal. She will tell me she has to go potty and/or she pooped in her diaper and run all excited to the bathroom.Then after she flushes(even though nothing is in there!) she will let me put another diaper on her. What do i do to get her to reverse the process????

My son is 21 months and asked to go potty when he was 16 months old. We were so excited. He has always went poop in the potty and was doing good with peeing in the potty but now he would rather wet his pull up than go to the potty. He still tells us when he needs to go poop with no problems, only peeing is the issue. Any suggestions?

Boredom was more an issue with my son pooping in the potty rather than fear. Found that he would ask to go during church or in the store (boring, wants attention). Combination of bribes/reading books on the potty worked fairly well getting to do poop. Also, only watching TV shows on DVD that could be paused and only doing activities he could come back to easily helped. He's 32 months and fully trained now, was peeing in potty at 24 months.

I have a 3 yr old boy and he isnt showing much interest in the potty. If we make him sit every half hour he will usually stay dry and sometimes do #2. He gets very excited when he goes, and loves if he gets to wear big boy boxers or underwear, but has NEVER asked to use the pot. If he goes in his diaper he wants to be changed immediately, so I know he doesnt like it, but how do i peak his interest in the potty???? HELP?

OK i need a advice my son is already 3 1/2 and I been struggling to potty train him. he will do number 1 in the big potty but he won't go number two. I been going through this for months already and I want to start using the potty. Since now he does it seem to be interest going pee in the toilet now. I been showing him and ask him but all he say is no. And plus i have a 2yr boy too but he know but i guess he not ready.... i need help and advice .....

i have a 3 1/2 yr old son and he isnt interested in the potty at all, except when naked. even then he still doesnt do #2 in the potty. ive tried everything as a reward, but he still wont go and ive read all the books. there are times when he'll wake me up on the weekends and say he went pee, and he did. but how can i get him to go all the time. when he has a mess in his pants he doesnt seem to mind at all which confuses me?? plz any help would be greatly appreciated.

ok my daughter just turned three..she wont go pee on the potty unless i remind her and she will not poop on the potty at all... she waits until she has a pull up on at bedtime to poop.. im at my whitts end i dont know what to do with this child....i know ..everyone says to give her some time but her brothers were trained before they were two and here we are with her....What am i doing wrong with her.... Any suggestions??????? she wears panties during the day...no pull ups at all.....

ADVISE!!!I have a 18 months old daughter who is well potty trained at home and when we go out. The issue i have is with the daycare center since the class is not equipped for it.Her daycare says the begin potty training at the 2 year old class or should i wait. On weekends she is on panties through out the day unless she is taking a nap or at night what would you advise i do. Am i confusing her since sometimes she wonders by refusing to be on daipers in the morning.

Help!!! My son is almost 3 1/2, and is not interested in being totally potty trained. He will tell us he needs to pee only when he's naked and he won't go #2 in the potty. We've tried stickers, toys and letting him pick new underwear, but he just doesn't care. Do we just wait or is there something else we can do??

my son is 3 1/2 and has been potty trained for almost a year. He was doing great until about 2 weeks ago, when he started doing #2 in his pants. We have tried to get him back on track. Is it possible that after all this time he can't feel it or is he just to busy to stop and go.

Give them time. Having a mess in their pants on a regular basis usually is enough to get them to want to use the toilet! One of our sons wasn't #2 trained till he was almost three. But when you look back, it won't matter if they were 18 months or 3 1/2 when it happened. We just get anxious to be done with those dirty diapers!

Hi everyone My daughter is 20 months old. She is now potty and pi pi trained only in day time but not at night. She use diaper in the night only. Now i want to stop diaper at night as well. But i afraid. How can i make her potty and pi pi train at night? Give some advise.

Somewhere I read something very interesting. My boy did not go to the potty for #2 either. Apparently children like to hold on to their #2. It is part of them. Seeing it go down the toilette is not a good experience for them. So, I told him that the water and his #2 go to the sea and the fishes eat his #2. Like I read, Nemo and Dora are counting on him. And it worked.

Yes, it is possible to not feel the urge to #2. I'm having the same problem with my daughter. Part of it has to do with being constipated. I was talking to another mom the other day about it and her son had an extreme problem with that was solved with medicine. I don't think we're that far gone, but a little Miralax works well. Good luck! And you're not the only one.

I've tried EVERYTHING!! Promised a new bike, scooter (which we bought and have yet to get out of the box, thinking if he had it that close to him, he would for sure!). He generally does #1, but #2, no chance. Our Montessori has made us feel like less than adequate parents because at 3 1/2, he should be trained. He is incredibly headstrong. They are now suggesting (because they also have PHD's, that he must not feel that he is going #2, is that even possible?