Fudgey - Potty Training 2 Year Olds? (warning-gross)

[Slugger926]

Fudgey -

Do you potty train 2 year olds? I am ready to send my son off for potty training. I was wondering if you offer this consulting service.

My 2 year old son has been constipated the past few days, so my wife loads him up with stool softners and and laxitives before she heads off to work tonight. He has been working on potty training the past week or so. He is doing good with the peeing, but still has some issues with the poop.

Tonight, after the laxitives and stool softeners, he loads his diaper rather than the potty. Immediately after filling this blowout diaper, he starts finger painting the hallway with his poop. (at least that isn't as bad as on Tuesday when my wife had to clean him up after he painted his toddler bed, and tried eating some of it.

:smileyballs:

 

[NCcarguy]

awwwww....you're raising a little Fudgemaster!!! isn't that cute! :Locolaugh:

 

[IlPadrino]

At first I was thinking of what I thought was the "sure fire"method of training.. all I can say is it worked for me (not ME, my son!). Let them roam around the house buck naked. Most (I guess not all!) kids don't like the thought of rolling around in their feces. So the theory is they refuse to drop a load just anywhere. In your case, maybe this wouldn't work so well...

Only problem I had was a surreptitious dump that went unseen. It was right next to a balcony door that eventually blew shut in the wind. Well, it actually blew ****...

 

[MA_PE]

Fudgey -
Do you potty train 2 year olds? I am ready to send my son off for potty training. I was wondering if you offer this consulting service.

My 2 year old son has been constipated the past few days, so my wife loads him up with stool softners and and laxitives before she heads off to work tonight. He has been working on potty training the past week or so. He is doing good with the peeing, but still has some issues with the poop.

Tonight, after the laxitives and stool softeners, he loads his diaper rather than the potty. Immediately after filling this blowout diaper, he starts finger painting the hallway with his poop. (at least that isn't as bad as on Tuesday when my wife had to clean him up after he painted his toddler bed, and tried eating some of it.

:smileyballs:

thanks for sharing that one (or should I say #2).

 

[bigray76]

Try putting Caro syrup in a Sippie of milk... that will loosen him right up!

Mine doesn't like to do anything in the bathroom other than flush the toilet... he will announce after he does his business in his diaper though.

 

[Flyer_PE]

We're still working on the potty training thing too. He'll be three in December. He's making the announcement after he has done his business in the diaper also. Our pediatrician told us that her son wasn't totally trained until he was 4-1/2. On the bright side, we haven't had any "events" similar to those described at the beginning of this thread.

 

[bigray76]

Everyone I know with boys says they will do it when they are ready (and they'll be trained in a week).

 

[Flyer_PE]

I think they trick with my son will be him deciding that there is some advantage to being potty trained. Right now, he knows the world is his toilet and doesn't see an incentive to learning. I figure if we try to hurry things, the German/Serbian stubborn streak will fire up and we'll be moving backward. I keep telling my wife that he'll get there on his schedule, not ours.

 

[Slugger926]

We're still working on the potty training thing too. He'll be three in December. He's making the announcement after he has done his business in the diaper also. Our pediatrician told us that her son wasn't totally trained until he was 4-1/2. On the bright side, we haven't had any "events" similar to those described at the beginning of this thread.

My wife got to clean up today's event. It was another paint job on toys.

On the pee side of things, a chart works with stickers after each success works wonders. The chart and stickers worked within a week for our daughter too. When they fill the chart up, we let them take it to Wal-mart for a $1 to $5 toy. Our son is on his second chart.

Due to lack of attention, we are doing a chart now for our daughter to clean her room every day.

 

[frazil]

We used the M&M method of potty training.

 

[Guest]

^^^ What does that entail?

My nephew is coming up on 1-yr and I can see that my wife and I will most likely have the honors of setting him on the right path.

JR

 

[frazil]

1 M&M for pee

2 M&Ms for poop

He had to tell us he had to go (though we reminded him a lot) and then go potty and wash his hands. Then we had a little M&M dispenser - he could pull down the arm and get an M&M. Totally bribery, but it worked. He was just about 3 at the time.

My daughter has just turned 18 months and has already pooped on the potty!! She saw her brother do it and begged to try too, and then did it!

 

[Dark Knight]

This thread reminds me how the simplest and more basic things we do in life now were a challenge long ago.

Retro-trip

 

[TouchDown]

Yep, 2 girls potty trained so far. Both had to be "motivated". One was with stickers, the other was M&M's.

Our oldest, took a long time to get #2 down with the potty. But, she's doing real good considering, because she has some issues with muscle tone.

Point is, find something that motivates and work it until your blue in the face... with a 4 and 6 year old, we still have the occasional (once a month or two) mistake in bed before waking up... That's why we have cheap matresses!

 

[Hill William]

This thread reminds me how the simplest and more basic things we do in life now were a challenge long ago.Retro-trip

And just think, someday we will all be shitting in our pants again and not caring. AAAHHHH, the cycle of life.

 

[Dleg]

Whew! Just yesterday, my son managed to pee in the toilet TWO TIMES. That doubles his entire successes so far. I'm so happy! You better believe he got rewarded for those. A lollipop for the first one yesterday, and "ice candy" (large asian otter-pop) for the second one.

He's 4 and this has been a real challenge since he has autism and that makes it difficult to communicate with him. About a month ago I got a couple of potty training DVDs ("Elmo Potty Time" and some other one) and I'm thinking that those are finally cllicking with him.

 

[Slugger926]

Whew! Just yesterday, my son managed to pee in the toilet TWO TIMES. That doubles his entire successes so far. I'm so happy! You better believe he got rewarded for those. A lollipop for the first one yesterday, and "ice candy" (large asian otter-pop) for the second one.
He's 4 and this has been a real challenge since he has autism and that makes it difficult to communicate with him. About a month ago I got a couple of potty training DVDs ("Elmo Potty Time" and some other one) and I'm thinking that those are finally cllicking with him.

Big Brown Bear in the Blue house potty time or something like that is really good. Have you seen the potty time Elmo?

Potty With Elmo

And then the matching potty seat: Link

 

[Dleg]

^^Yeah got that. But he prefers the actual toilet so far. Just carries the potty out and uses it as a chair.

I love the song "accidents happen." I bet Fudgey would too.

 

[bigray76]

We bought my son one of those stand alone practice toilets... he won't use it (other than a chair like Dleg mentioned) or he'll put his stuffed bear on it and pretend like he is using the toilet.

 

[Wolverine]

On the bright side, there's about a 99% certainty that the potty training will eventually succeed.

And if not, he could always go work for NASA.