Question by 2 Legit 2 Quit: How to potty train a 2 year old?
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Answer by BamBam
Male or Female? My step-dad threw a cigarette butt in the toilet and told me to “sink it”. Hope this helps…
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Boy or girl? Because if it’s a boy, I would wait another six months to a year.
I used the book “Potty Train in a Day” with my oldest daughter at about 2 years and it worked like a charm. It tried it with my two oldest boys at two and the were resistant. I tried it again at age three and it worked well for one of my boys.
The basic idea is to buy some training pants, a bunch of salty snacks, drinks that your child likes, and a doll that pees. On potty training day, tell your toddler that you are going to have a potty training party. You then feed them salty snacks so they will get thirsty and want to drink lots of water or juice. This will make them need to pee more.
When you think enough time has passed to fill their bladder, you show them the doll and teach them that the doll is big enough to use the potty chair, but we have to show the doll how to use the potty chair. You then make the doll pee in the potty chair, show how to wipe it’s bottom and then remove the bowl, empty it in the toilet, rinse it out, flush it down and then the doll has to wash it’s hands. You then let the toddler got through the motions. After playing with the doll this way,then you encourage the toddler to go pee in the potty chair and follow the routine. As I said, it worked like a charm for my oldest daughter. But the boys and my youngest daughter didn’t want to play with the doll.
What did work was the salty snacks/drinks so they would need to go more often. I also bought training pants for them to wear during potty training and a pair of fancy decorated underpants for incentive. Once I could predict when the child would need to pee. I made them sit on the potty chair until they peed, no longer than 10 or 15 minutes, since that even seems like forever to a child. Once I got them to pee in the potty chair. I made a huge deal of it and praised them to high heaven. I then showed them a package of fancy decorated underwear and told them that if they kept their training pants dry all day, they could have the fancy underpants to wear the next day. After they had an accident, I wouldn’t get mad but I would make an exaggerated fuss about the mess and then have them help clean it up and have them pick up the soiled pants and put it in the washing machine. It was more of a game of them being helper than a punishment for having an accident. I then gave them a clean pair of training pants and showed them the fancy ones, reminding them that they had to keep themselves dry if they wanted the fancy ones. This worked pretty well and once they decided they wanted to keep dry, they did.
I think for some kids resistance to potty training is more of a control issue than an issue of not understanding what they need to do, so if you give them a reason to want to pee in the potty chair that is better than their desire to resist, potty training is pretty easy. For example, if the child is resisting, then think up something fun to do like going to McDonalds to play on the toys and then say, “but wait, we can’t go. Only big kids who wear underpants can go. We’ll have to wait until you decide to keep your underpants dry.”
Beat his @ss until he learns better