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4 Year Old Twin Boys Not Interested in Potty Training

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Last Post Nov 21, 2009 6:41 PM by: adeerlvr
adeerlvr
 
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Re: 4 Year Old Twin Boys Not Interested in Potty Training

Nov 21, 2009 6:41 PM
I know you must be very frustrated. I had a 3 and 4 year old potty training at the same time (many years ago). I couldn't get my 4 year old to train so my 3 year old helped. It became a competition thing, actually. This sounds gross, but what I decided to finally do was make them go naked. I'd heard that it worked. I had messes to clean up for a few days, but it worked. They just decided to go on the toilet. THey didn't like the feel of pee running down their legs and the poop, I guess just grossed them out. Don't know if you want to deal with that, but it did help me rather quickly. I also kept a toilet in the room that they spent the most time in, that way it was easy to race them to the potty when they started going. Now, I'm training my 2 year old. He's doing well on the potty. I kept him naked all summer long. We had a few accidents, but he's been relatively easy to train. Hope this helps you.
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4 Year Old Twin Boys Not Interested in Potty Training

Oct 25, 2009 10:24 PM
Hi - -

I am a stay at home dad of twin 4 year old boys. I also have two daughters who are 2 and 1. All four kids are still in diapers. Been trying to train the boys on and off since they turned 3, but nothing has worked. Tried it all but all they want to do is wear their diapers. I have used pull-ups a few times, but feel that they're just another form of diaper, so most of the times when I have taken them out of diapers, I have transitioned them straight to underwear. Their mom works and has no real involvement with child care or potty training so it's all on me. Fortunately their nursery school accepts them in diapers so that hasn't been an issue. If I take off their diapers and put them in underwear, they will just use the underwear as if it was their diaper. They don't care if they are wet or messy (underwear or diaper makes no difference). They will sometimes sit on the potty if they are in the mood, or sometimes they will fight me. I am a very liberal parent who has tried not to rush them. They were late to give up bottles and pacifiers and I didn't even start trying to train them until they were 3. Not sure what else to do. I see other parents have BM issues, but their kids pee on the potty. I can't even get mine to do that regularly. Once in awhile they'll pee on the potty but that's usually a coincidence. It's not because they've told me that they have to pee and we go to the potty. Doctor tells me to just keep them in diapers for now and try every few months. He feels that by spring/summer they'll just do it on their own. Any suggestions or advice? I don't mind changing diapers or having my kids in diapers but I don't want to run into kindergarten problems next year. Bedwetting runs in our family and I won't be surprised if the boys are bedwetters (my brother and I wet into our late teens and my 12 year old newphew still wets). Diapers at night are fine. I'm OK with that. But would like them trained during the day.