My 3 year old has developed the worst case of bathroom humor I have ever seen in anyone except my father. He likes to tell me that he likes to fart, that his pretend elephants like to fart, that he holds his grandma's kitten on the butt.
We've been ignoring it for the most part since it's something he'll outgrow but we have to go down to my parent's house for Labor Day weekend and my father is going to encourage it. ![]()
Talking to my father won't work, he thinks he's right and that's final so I need a way to break him of it.
The second problem is potty training. He wears underwear during the day and won't wear pullups unless it's bedtime. He refuses to use other bathrooms though which isn't a problem most of the time since we don't go places for more than a couple hours usually. This is going to be a problem for the trip, there's a wedding and stuff and I don't want to be changing dirty underwear. Does anyone have a solution to get him to use the bathroom somewhere other than at home? ![]()
I never had the bathroom problem with my oldest, when he potty trained he just did it and loved to use any bathroom he could find.
How about making the bathroom use a game of sorts? My sister throws cheerios in her toilet for my nephew to shoot at. That has definitely encouraged the use of the bathroom versus the pullups. Maybe it would help your son want to use bathrooms elsewhere if you use it when you're out and you probably have cheerios or the like with you anyway!
I'm having a problem with potty training too! My daughter is 5 1/2 years old and she has developmental delay. It's so inconsistent! She actually peed and pooped in her potty chair the other day and we rewarded her with a present. Now she doesn't want to use the potty anymore!!
onestepahead.com sells a plastic folding potty seat that goes on top of a regular toilet seat.
My lil one LOVES it.... makes a public bathroom seems more like her own I guess?? I like it because she isn't touching icky public toilets. It's small enough folded to fit in a small backpack.
Jorre,
I have that toilet seat too. Only it was because my dd didn't want any one looking at her while she peed. Now I don't carry it with me and she will use the public restrooms as long as she can leave the stall or room when it's flushed.
Try to find out why he's being resistant to other toilets. It may be that he's just being stubborn, or it may be because of a fear or something. My dd was afraid of public toilets for a long time because the flushing sound is typically very loud and she has always been afraid of loud things. My 3 1/2 yo ds didn't usually care about the noise, but A) was afraid he would fall in to the toilet- he always sits, and B)once one of the auto-motion sensing-flush toilets flushed while he was still sitting there and it scared the bejeebers out of him! (Now he thinks that's cool though and almost always flushes while he's sitting there.
Such a strange child...) Once you get to the bottom of the reason it will be much easier to persuade him to try it. Good luck from a Mom who's been there!!!
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