Wednesday, August 8, 2007

I Give Up!!!

I have the most stubborn three year old ever! Miles is refusing to potty train. He just doesn't want to do it! Any suggestions out there????
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7 comments:

the McLaughlin's said...

Hi Elaine. It's Jessica McLaughlin. Long time no talk huh! We just finished getting Jake potty trained a few months ago. What finally worked for him was I spent a week at home and had him go with bottomless. I cleaned up a few messes but everytime I put anything on him he thought it was free game to wet in. By the end of the week he was good through day and night. We have had a few accidents but not many. Good luck!

August 8, 2007 at 6:01 PM
rymiembeal said...

I say beat him.
- Michelle

August 9, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Becky said...

For my boys they had to finally decide they wanted it. Mostly for Reed, social pressures from other kids helped. As part of his early childhood education program he was required to use the toilet, and that quickly worked as all the other kids were mostly potty trained. After having Isaac I mentioned to the doctor that I needed to potty train the boys and he agreed and remembered when he had kids and changing diapers that after the new baby came you realized that "those other kids really have big butts!" It's so true and that's when I got determined to train them. Good luck!

August 10, 2007 at 3:14 PM
Ally Cat Girl said...

I was so frustrated with potty training Nayeli. One time she peed on the slide at McDonald's. It was so embarrassing. I just say if it's not working just take a break for a couple of days, weeks, whatever and try again. That's what I did with Nayeli and one day it just clicked.

August 12, 2007 at 9:17 PM
Welch Mom said...

Well I am trying with Cole right now and he is doing pretty well, but not completely there. I give a special treat for a reward and put him on the potty every 30 min. He has started to tell me when he has to go. I can sympathize, I think I spent the first day on the floor by the toliet!

August 14, 2007 at 12:06 AM
Cindi M said...

Whew! Four down one to go. They are all so different. I had one kid who was four before he was done. The earliest was 2 and a half. We always did this big reward system. It went something like, how much is it worth to me to have this child potty trained and a trip to the store to find the little toys that would drive them crazy to get. This idea usually backfired, but it made it funner for me anyway. They usually do it when they are good and ready to do it. I like the comment about backing off and waiting for a while when it gets high stress. The stress sure doesn't get them going in my experience.

Good luck Elaine!

August 14, 2007 at 7:10 PM
amberd. said...

Elaine...
I bought Lincoln a $20 toy and told him he could have it if he went on the potty. It was a zoom o max disc launcher and it was pretty cool! The first day, I gave it to him and he peed his pants. That was a Saturday evening. He said he didn't want to wear undies anymore, so he looked at that toy up on top of the tv stand all of Sunday, and really wanted to play with it. So Monday morning, he woke up and told me he wanted to play with the toy... so I we put him back in underwear, and he hasn't had an accident since. Sometimes... spending 20 bucks is well worth the money!

August 15, 2007 at 9:32 AM

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