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20 Best-Ever Potty Training Tips
Trust us -- we know these top tips work! We tapped the experts -- Parents.com readers, who swear by each and every one.
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Are you counting down the days to the toilet transition? Or maybe you've already dabbled in a few less-than-successful attempts? Either way, we heard one thing again and again: Your kid has to be good and ready. And don't worry, he will be someday. "No child is going to graduate high school in diapers," says Carol Stevenson, a mom of three from Stevenson Ranch, California, who trained each one at a different age. "But it's so easy to get hung up and worried that your child's a certain age and not there yet, which adds so much pressure and turns it into a battle." Once you're convinced your kid's ready to ditch the diapers (watch for signs like showing an interest in the bathroom, telling you when she has to go, or wanting to be changed promptly after pooping), try any of these tricks to make it easier.
I feel like there's just no time for potty training!! My daughter and I commute 3 hours each day to work and daycare, I know she's peeing while I'm driving but she doesn't say anything. Her day care lady has tried so hard to get her to potty but she still won't do it. Is it wrong to just let her go along her own way with trying to "subliminally" train her?
11/19/2009 05:17:55 PM Report AbuseHelp!! My son just turned 2 and he's already taking off his diaper so im guessing he's ready for his potty...I put him on the potty and he just gets off..He watches me everytime I use the toilet...What do i do??
11/17/2009 12:10:18 AM Report AbuseMy son is four and a couple months, he was still yet to master the potty. He a little on the stubborn side and a really good liar! Ask him if he has to go and he'll yell you no with a straight face then pee all over the car seat. My solution is asking him if he needs to go alot. When he hasn't gone in a while and take him to the toilet and make him try. He always goes. I think he's not understanding his body clues. Hopefully, he'll be trained before kindergarten, but I'm not betting on it.
11/12/2009 10:39:34 AM Report Abusemy son is almost three, and was doing fairly well with the peeing part, going on the toilet, and telling me that he had to go, but not the pooping. now for some reason he has gone back to peeing and pooping in his pull ups. he won't tell me any more, not even after he goes. can someone please help me???
11/3/2009 12:40:57 PM Report AbuseMy daughter just turned two and she is almost potty trained all the way. I will just give one advice... DON'T GIVE UP!! It was really hard for me.
11/2/2009 12:50:44 PM Report Abuse