Boys who potty trained LATE

How do I do this?!?!?!

DS is over 3 years old and has no desire to potty train. I told him today that we ran out of diapers and that he has to go on the potty. He went through 6 pairs of undies and peed on the carpet more times than I care to mention. He is not getting it and I can't keep going like this.
How do I make it click? This is so frustrating!

Re: Boys who potty trained LATE

DS was about 2.5 when I started potty training him. But the method that worked best for me was letting him run around bottomless. That first day I set my oven timer and every 15 minutes it went off I made him go sit on the potty. And he had to sit there until he peed. After a few hours I stretched the interval to 20 minutes. When he went down for a nap I used a pullup.

When he got up from his nap I made him pee and stretched the interval to 45 minutes. Did that until bedtime.

The next day I made the interval every hour. And so on.

He is now almost 3.5. Has no accidents. But only takes himself to the potty on rare occasions. Typically I still have to remind him to go. Unless it's poop. That he does himself.

But, poop is a whole other issue. That took months just to convince him to go on the bowl.

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My DS was just about 3 1/2 when he potty trained. BUT - he was instantly trained - day and night, no accidents, naps, car rides, pee and poop - never had any potty issues. He was (is!) just a stubborn boy who needed to do it on his own schedule (mind you, about ten months earlier he physically could do it - his diapers were always dry in the mornings - but he just didn't want to). One morning he woke up and said he wanted to use the potty and that was that.

Good luck with whatever you try - you know your DS best and what will work for you.

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My advise is don't kill yourself over it. Both of my boys had heads of cement about it. My older one was trained by 3.5 because one day HE decided it was time. I used to bang my head against the wall b/c he was so stubborn and it didn't matter what I did he wasn't having it until he made the decision and never again wore a pull up during the day AND night. My second son we are going through this now. He turned 3 in August and does pretty well when he has underwear on but does have some accidents (2 today!). If he has a pull up on he doesn't even bother going on the potty, he thinks it's "annoying" . I just keep putting underwear or pull ups on him and honestly I'm not stressing b/c boys are stubborn! He won't be going to graduation in diapers .

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Honestly, I don't care when it happens, as long as it happens. DS (3 years 2 months) is super stubborn, and has sat on the potty maybe 10 times? I know he'll do it when he's ready, and I know forcing the issue will make it worse (just knowing his personality).

Luckily, DD (20 months) is showing some signs of interest in the potty, so I figure I'll follow her lead and see if that gets DS interested too.

Plus, as expensive as they are, diapers are just so easy and I'm not in any rush to get rid of them!

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Posted by MommaG

My DS was just about 3 1/2 when he potty trained. BUT - he was instantly trained - day and night, no accidents, naps, car rides, pee and poop - never had any potty issues. He was (is!) just a stubborn boy who needed to do it on his own schedule (mind you, about ten months earlier he physically could do it - his diapers were always dry in the mornings - but he just didn't want to). One morning he woke up and said he wanted to use the potty and that was that.

Good luck with whatever you try - you know your DS best and what will work for you.

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Posted by brownie

Posted by headoverheels

Honestly, I don't care when it happens, as long as it happens.

My mom is a ped and says the same thing...don't push it at all, just let it happen

There's a big range for when they're PT so don't stress it

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Posted by headoverheels

Posted by brownie

Posted by headoverheels

Honestly, I don't care when it happens, as long as it happens.

My mom is a ped and says the same thing...don't push it at all, just let it happen

There's a big range for when they're PT so don't stress it

Can your mom come talk to my in-laws?

Re: Boys who potty trained LATE

DS #1 was a PAIN... I had this whole vision that when I bought him a potty and he liked it (mind you her was like 13 months when I got it) that he would get it early on. Yeah NOT! We started to hardcore try and potty tran him at almost 3 years old. He was pretty good when he turned 3. But still had accidents until he turned just over 4. He acutally only 100% stopped having accidents just this end of summer. I told him that he was starting kindergarten and none of the other kids would be peeing in thier pants. And since then not one. Now DS#2 had been potty training since just this summer when he turned 3 (again.. attempted to get him to do it before that but no dice) and all of a sudden then last 3 weeks it just clicked. Hes only had about 4 accidents, and all of them were when he was playing Wii with his brother and didnt want to stop to go potty and he got in trouble. But hes been dry every night and doing amazing! I swear they just need to have it click and its forward from there. We use reward charts... a sticker at every pee and a present (small one) after the chart is full and a small present for poop in potty. They have both pretty much forgot about stickers and presents but the charts are still up for the occasional time they remember. I had noticed with my older one that when the yougner one started getting rewards, he went backwards in his training so we started it back up again.