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Question by FaZizzle: Potty training a stubborn 3 year old?
Here’s my situation: my son is now 3 and a half and hates the bathroom. He loves the toilet and doesn’t mind using the toilet (he’s recently taken to standing while peeing – whatever works!), but getting him there is an issue.
He just wants to play with his toys. No matter how much we coax him, each time is a battle.
We’ve tried taking toys into the bathroom with him – that failed because he just wanted to play with him instead of do his business.
We’ve tried books. We’ve tried nearly everything.
I am at my wit’s end now. Both my husband and I work opposite shifts, leaving our son in daycare for 3 hours a day. By the time I get everyone home, I still need to start dinner, get everyone fed and try to enjoy the evening. It’s getting to be such a challenge to get my son to go to the bathroom a few times before bed, even though I know his urination schedule. By the end of the day, we both are so frustrated with each other – I took him away from playing, and I had to pull a screaming toddler into the bathroom.
Right now we’re using Pampers Pull-ups and he knows after he goes to the bathroom. I’ve tried putting him in the bathroom and flushing the toilet with him as we change the Pull-ups. He’s not scared of the bathroom – he just doesn’t want to take the time to go in there.
We don’t have the money to buy cloth training pants, and the Gerber plastic ones have failed us many times over. Because of our work schedules, my husband and I can’t just take a week to work with him.
I know that we waited too long while we “waited” for our son to hit all of the signs that he was ready, and we’re still needing to work on changing OUR definition of ready. However, I don’t know where to go from here. Bribes aren’t working, and I don’t know how much longer I can spend my evenings trying to drag a tantrummy toddler into the bathroom.
We’re focusing on #1 right now – we’ve tried #2, but it’s just not going anywhere fast. The more he sits, the more frustrated we get. In the end, he unfortunately keeps doing #2 after I put him to bed, despite having sat with him for 5-10 minutes after bath time. His diet is VERY fiberous, but the kid just isn’t wanting to do it.
Help?
Best answer:
Answer by Been There Done That
Mess and consequence and reward work best. When he makes the mess supervise him cleaning it up. When he goes without too much problem reward him with something he loves to do.
We used 6 or 7 M&M’s for pooping in the potty.
Our 3 year old loves to bungee jump at the mall. We told her if you keep your panties dry all week we will go bungee bounce. So far it has worked for the most part.
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