Unsuccessful potty training 3 yr old boy! Help!
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:46 pm
Hi, My wee boy is 3 now (just, it was his birthday on 22 Feb) and I wanted to make potty training easy for all of us. I tried far too early with DD1 which ended up with months of stress for all of us and I didn't want to repeat this with him. Well, been trying for 4 weeks now and he just doesn't seem to be aware of when he needs to go and only knows he has pee'd if he is wearing washable trainer pants and the wee is going down his legs but either doesn't know or isn't bothered by being wet or dirty in pull ups. I have tried sitting him on potty each time I change him and for the past few days I have tried to get him to sit on potty more often (every 1 and a half hrs) and am using a reward chart where he gets a sticker for sitting on the potty (he seems to like the reward chart even though I feel its a bit patronising!). I can only get him to agree to sitting on it if I read him a book while he is on it or do a jigsaw or the likes after. I am trying to stay positive and tell him how well he is doing when he sits on the potty. But I am starting to find it really hard and wondering if I should abandon for a couple of weeks and revisit again then. He is due to start state nursery at the end of April and they expect kids to be potty trained although will still accept kids who are not. What to do? Any tips welcome. This is definitely the hardest part of parenting!!