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Question by Brianna: Potty training ideas not involving food or money as a reward?
My son is 2 and a half and we would like to start potty training. I understand rewards are a big deal in potty training but I don’t want to give him food, money, candy, small toys etc. Any ideas?
Any tips on potty training at all would be awesome 
Thanks!
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Answer by __Rainbow Baby__
Praise him when he goes in the potty! Positive reinforcement is always best!
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February 17th, 2012 at 12:18 am
Make a potty celebration dance… Stickers are also cool
February 17th, 2012 at 12:38 am
if there is a daddy in the picture have him go to the bathroom with his daddy everytime his daddy goes so he knows and learns what to do and sees that its not scary thats how i potty trained my 1st son
February 17th, 2012 at 12:49 am
Potty training without reward is going to be quite difficult. The childs father is going to need to play a large role in this. Pick up some books, shows, and a potty. Watch the shows with your son, read the books to him, and every time your or your spouse go to the bathroom have him come in, sit on his potty, and observe you or your spouse. It’s important for his father to really get hands on with the potty training and show him how its done.
As far as the rewards go, they come into play later. Your childs going to be excited for the first few months and your praise will be enough. After a few months he’s likely to get bored of it and realize its easier just to keep playing and go in his pants like he used to. Thats when most parents, including myself, who didn’t want to use rewards, cave in and buy a ton of little toy cars.
February 17th, 2012 at 1:32 am
Since you are about to start…I would just go the traditional route. Have the potty talk. You are a big boy now, and you should start going to the bathroom in the potty..like a big boy! Since potty training is something we as parents have very little contorl of..I think it is best if the child makes the decision…with gentle guidence from mom and dad..by giving chioces. With my kids..I had undies I bought. I showed them to them, and asked…would you like to use these underpants, or would you like to go and pick out your own? My son chose the ones I had..(he hates stores..lol) my daughter wanted to pick her own. Ok..undies set! Would you like to use the toilet, or the potty chair? My son chose the toilet..my dd..the potty chair(she doesn’t like help with anything..she is independant!)
They were both potty trained quickly, when we started…they were ready(which is important, no use trying for 6 months if they arent ready) so in the first week…we were done. An accident here and there when we were not home.
With my dd..I stared, either to early or approched it the wrong way. I think I went about it the wrong way. She was ready but I tried to be in control…didn’t work. We spent 1 week and had not one bit of progress so I stopped and tried again 3 weeks later in a different way..giving her control and it worked. she was pt! the day she bought her undies.
because with my son being my first and I had no experience, I did use a sticker chart. He chose the stickers and helped me make the chart. one sticker for pee…5 for poopie. It worked well, he was 3 and was very ready so…I most likely didn’t need to use the sticker chart but…he enjoyed making it and putting the stickers on the chart. He chose where the chart went…right next to the toilet(: so everyone could “see”.
All kids are different, you know your child best and need to figure out the best way to start potty training. Make it stress free for him! If in the first week he isn’t interested, and shows no progress…perhaps he isn’t ready. so stop and try again in a few weeks. or a month.
Some kids are ready at 1 and a half(rare but it happens) some are ready at 2, some 3…it all depends on when there bladder is able to hold it long enough for them to make it to the bathroom.
I have friends that potty trained for 6 months or longer…one a year! IMO there kids were not ready OR they didn’t go about it the right way. PT is stressful, it is the first thing in our childrens lives that we can not control. they have the control…so IMO it is best to give them choices so they think…I am a big boy and I make the decisoin…Because..they do IF they are ready. If they arent…pursuing it and prolonging the process makes it a stressful time for everyone.
Both my kids were ready…well the first time my dd wasn’t. so I stopped after a week and waited…3 weeks later, she was potty trained in one day! IF i stuck with it for those 3 weeks, it would have not gone well, and would have taken longer…I know that bc I know my child. and…I didn’t use bribes, not necessasary if they are ready. I dont think the stickers were a bribe, it was a reward and worked but now I dont think I needed to use it. It was my first time.
Good Luck! also..daytime potty trained is very different than night! Be prepared for him to be in a diaper or pullup for another year..maybe more maybe less. But when he is pt during the day..at first he will not be at night. that is a whole differnt ball game.
February 17th, 2012 at 2:00 am
I have 3 kids and never gave them rewards for using the potty. I praised them, but never gave them anything for it.
My best advise is to go all the way with the training. This means no pull-ups. Let him know what it feels like to be wet if he has an accident. Before I trained my son I sent him to the bathroom every time my husband went.
February 17th, 2012 at 2:37 am
Is actually ready to be potty trained?
It would be like forcing your baby to walk at an age he is not developmental ready yet.
Does he stay dry all night? Can he pull up and down his pants? Can he actually read his body signals
that he needs to pee, and bm?
Why are you so against giving a lil treat if he goes? One jellybean, 2 jellybeans..not a huge deal.
If your child is ready to be trained it will be much more easy on him ..and you. If you try to force him into something he just does not get yet, it doesn’t make much sense.
Many boys are not ready until about 3..
February 17th, 2012 at 3:32 am
i bght my kid sm undies and would put them on under the store brand pullups (since theyre thinner) so they would get used to feeling like they just had the undies on..it worked pretty fast
February 17th, 2012 at 3:54 am
money? never heard that one
sticker chart… little kids like colorful stickers
February 17th, 2012 at 4:35 am
We did song and dances. Literally.
Our son, now 6, was REALLY into trains. So we got on the ‘potty train’ all the way down the hall complete with “chugga chugga PEE PEE”. After he went, mom, dad, and sibling would all hold hands in a circle jumping up and down singing, “(their name) did what? what? PeePee. PeePee. Where? Where? Potty! Potty!…..Yeah” and then we’d all fall on the ground.
I think my wife, on occassion, would also sneak in a treat now and then, but this was a consistent routine which really worked….for him.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:22 am
I’m doing potty training right now with a little girl though…. But I do stickers or soap bubbles (this not only encourages them to wash hands constantly but is also fun. What I do is give a lot of soap to make plenty of bubbles and just let them play) but you got to make sure your timing is on…. Like for example if my little drinks or eats anything with lots of fluids I have to seat her 5 mins from when she starts, that way she doesn’t have an accident. But my oldest one was 20min…. Just read all the signs and make it fun.
February 17th, 2012 at 6:13 am
I hope you don’t mind the links, they’re to Signing Time’s new product “Potty Time” and comes with a potty reminder watch, and is on sale for the next day or so… and I thought that might be something you’d want to look at. They made it so it works with whatever potty program a parent decides to go with.
We bought my daughter a potty at her second Christmas, when she was 2years and a month. Then just kept showing her, but until she was 3 she wasn’t consistent about it. I remember we tried stickers, candy, toys, etc, but nothing made a difference. With her, eventually I bought some training pants (gerber makes them, they’re like a cloth diaper but slide up) and when she had an accident she felt the wetness and didn’t like that, and from that point on she was potty trained. With her, the reward was actually cleaning up the potty, pouring it in, flushing the toilet, etc. I’m not sure WHY it thrilled her so much, but she still will clean the potty, and is starting to use the big toilets so that I don’t get to clean up the potties. Something that really spurred her, in addition to feeling the wet with a training pants, was we went to church and everyone in her class went to use the potty as a group. When they saw she was not potty trained, the other kids noticed. I don’t think anyone made fun of her but they did sort of roll their eyes and she quickly rushed to potty train herself, and then insisted on never wearing anything but panties or pull-ups to church from that point on (social pressure.)
We ended up using a few little rewards at the beginning, but they didn’t make a big impression on her. So we dropped those and used rewards like reading a book to her (now she sits and reads a book herself on the potty, sometimes so long she forgets she went already…) Just being happy with her, and rejoicing, well, that made a bigger impression. And she loved flushing her potty herself, being in complete control over the whole deal.
I’m considering getting the potty time for my son, he’s still only a year old though and I don’t think he’s ready. My daughter loves signing time though, and they’re both signing here and there, so I think he’d really love it.
February 17th, 2012 at 7:03 am
I have a 6 year old boy, and when he was 2 and a half, we started trying to potty train him, and NOTHING worked- no sticker charts (though that worked for nearly everyone else I know- just a big chart on the wall near the potty, and the sticker sheets in view, but not reachable, and as soon as the kid goes, they get to pick the sticker and put in on the sheet- the best chart I’ve seen had two sides- one for ‘SUCCESS!! and the other for ‘TOO BAD’ and they had to put the smiley stickers on the good side, and a frowny face on the bad side. She hated the frowny faces, and actually potty trained within a week! accidents got a sticker on the too bad side.)
So, anyways, back to my own son- after no rewards of any kind proved to motivate him, we just stopped trying, put him in diapers again and just once a day, made a very small comment- “look at daddy getting ready for work- see, he’s wearing big boy underwears. no diapers!”, or “wow, you are such a big boy! soon you’ll be ready to get rid of those baby diapers!” When he turned 3, he just woke up one morning, ran in and got me and said “mommy! I’m ready to be a big boy!” and ripped off his diaper, went in the potty, and has never had an accident since. He wouldn’t even let me put a diaper on him at night- and no accident that night either! It totally depends on what motivates your child- but I did train my son with no rewards, stickers or anything. It’s possible.
February 17th, 2012 at 7:32 am
If you toss some cheerios into the toilet and have him stand and aim for them, I’ve heard that encourages boys to use the potty, because it makes it fun for them to learn to pee standing like they will see dad and other men do. Also, perhaps the peter potty toddler urinal would help too, it might catch his interest.
http://www.peterpotty.com/
It’s a start and worth a shot I’d say. Of course for the other function it will take a bit more work of sitting him down and helping him. Be patient and praise him when he does good.
February 17th, 2012 at 7:32 am
I think you should just try taking him to the potty every 20 minutes. That’s probably the best way to go, and if you’re taking him that often, then he won’t have many accidents. Good luck