Moms of boys who PTed...

MrsDB

My daughter has long been PTed by this age, we introduced it first but she did NOT want to make a mess so it was a really easy EASY thing to do. She had just turned 2 like a week before, talked a bit, and never had a full out accident because she'd freak, stop herself, and run to the potty before it got on her leg LOL, My son is 2.5, and has no problems peeing all over the floor, or himself.  I would love to PT him soon, or at least attempt it to see how it goes- not force it on him, but did anyone successfully train when they didn't seem to personally care about the mess? Do you just go heavy on other reinforcements? DD didn't need any reward, her motivation was just simply not to pee on herself. I feel like a first time mom with this boy because nothing about my daughter has ever related to my son.

BeachBaby07

Mine was the opposite so I dont think the sex of the child matters. My son likes to be clean and had one accident on day 1, was mortified and never did it again. Yay Me for waiting until he was 1 day shy of 3 yrs old. He took all the work out of it, by doing it himself. It was just time, and that was that. My daughter trained herself while we were on vacation, and then when we got back decided she wasnt. She was 2 1/2. She was pooping on the potty but peed in her diapers/pull ups all the time. She could care less. She didnt want bribes, she didnt care that she wasnt a big girl at school, she wasnt having it. Finally after her 3rd B-day, santa wrote her a letter as did her elf, and that bugger started pooping in her diapers. She did it like 4 times over  NYE weekend and that was it, I said Santa was sad and he left her underpants and she needed to start wearing them. She finally gave up and she has been great ever since. But if she does have an accident (there have been like 3 or 4 small ones) she wouldnt care. My son OMG he would have seriously gone into a depression and would have been devastated. I just think in general 2nd children are more difficult because they dont follow along with what #1 did

UsedToBeGoldie

we did the 3-day with Griffin right after he turned 3 and it worked like a charm.

Gibby started to PT himself this fall - he was 2y and a few months... we were NOT ready to PT him that early - but figured we'd give it a shot b/c he was so into it.... Griffin did something similar right after he turned 2.... and both did great - and then both lost interest.

Gibby doesn't like to be dirty either- but he refused to poop in the potty.  He'd pee in the potty no problem - and he'd be upset if he peed in his pants- but poop? he didn't care...   Griffin never had an issue with either - but when he was 3.... at 2 he just thoguht it was cool to do it in the potty for a few weeks- then got bored.

we have gone back to pullups for Gibby b/c we don't feel it's fair unless we are 100% invested in PTing him - for him to have lots of accidents, and feel messy/bad... and he's happy back in pullups.

When he turns 3 we'll do the 3day like we did with Griffin.  Hoping to do it with Gray, too, but I have a feeling he is gonna be HARD b/c he doesn't give two sh!ts about having sh!t all over his body, lol.

Jezebel1228

I never thought I'd see the day where I'd be GIVING pt advice...

Anyway, Caleb would still be in diapers if I didn't push him. I sat in the floor with his potty, for 5 days. IT SUCKED.  He couldnt have cared less about being in wet or dirty underwear. I'd have to keep chasing him and grab him as soon as he started to go. After a few days i noticed how often he seemed to be having accidents. So for the following few days, I would sit him on the potty and he would have to stay there until he went, just so he got the idea of what he was SUPPOSED to do.  On the fifth day in the afternoon something clicked and he started telling us when he had to go.. He's been pretty good ever since. He's had a few accidents here and there and still uses a pull up for naps and at night. But we've been sending him to school in underwear for about 2 weeks now and so far so good!

I would have liked to wait for him to be ready but I don't know if that day ever would have come.

 

Good luck 

avoliss

Last Presidents' Day, I tried to do PT bootcamp with Steven. That ended up being AWFUL. I am not patient and suck.

Fast forward to May. I decided we needed to try again. We just decided we weren't going anywhere all weekend. Saturday sucked. He wasn't at all interested in the potty. Sunday, he had 1 accident (poop). Monday (Memorial Day), none. 

He didn't exhibit any desire prior to this...I was just ready for him to not be in diapers anymore and he was on board with it. 

Good luck!