Should I take a break from potty training my toddler?
My 2 1/2 yr old son has been showing signs of readiness for potty training since he was 2 but we have held off due to lack of bladder control. We have been letting him walk around the house without a diaper for periods of time for a while now and have decided to give it a try. He does great if I can get him on the potty. He will sit and pee and even have a bowel movement but he will not tell me before he has to go.
Should I hold off on potty training or is this just a matter of working with him to develop that self control? I am worried that if I back off now and wait that we will loose any progress that we have made. Anyone who has had similar problems?
I don’t want to rush him or put too much pressure on him but I feel like he is ready.
Thank you
if he seems ready he probably is. let him pick out some big boy underwear, and tell him he can’t pee on spiderman’s head (or whomever he chooses). then just keep putting him on the potty at a regular schedule, and make a HUGE deal out of him keeping his undies dry. i pasted the link for the potty dance commercial… do the dance with him when he goes potty! our 3-yr old did not want to go in the potty, but we just had to keep plugging away at it, and it took quite a while. i don’t think you should back off though. it gets confusing to say you have to go potty in the pottychair, then just let him go in his diaper/pull ups. give him a special book or toy that he can only play with when he’s on the potty. with our boy, he had to ‘pee for wii’. when he went in the potty, he could play a game. when he wet himself, he wasn’t allowed to play again until he’d gone in the potty again. worked like a charm, and he was SO proud of himself. keep going! it’s not fun, i know this well, but he’ll just love being told that he’s a big boy now!