My wife found a folding porta-potty.

The one we use looks like this:

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(This may or may not be the one my wife bought but it looks like it.)

Every kid is different.  My son was terrified about pooping on the potty for a very long time.  He went to school in underpants and when he came home he insisted on a diaper to poop in.  I fought him on this but in the end, it was easier than having him hold it in for 5 days out of fear.  In the end, what worked for us was to get him to start wearing the diaper in the bathroom to poop - he used to go in a corner elsewhere in the house.  Then, we made him sit on the toilet wearing the diaper to poop.  The final straw was my husband cutting a hole in the diaper that my son somehow did not notice (don't ask me) and he pooped and it fell into the toilet.  I read this early on in out battle and scoffed at it.  My son is SMART!  There's no way that will work for him.  Yeah.  It totally worked.  So, my advice is don't rule anything out.  Good luck and the pooping will happen in time.  

I'm so good at this potty training business that I have trained my daughters best friend and one of the neighbor kids. We started by wearing panties all the time, if she had an accident it was going to be miserable rather than all nicely contained in whatever in the hell that gel like substance is. (Which was a deterrent for my kid because she hates to be dirty.) Then when she would "make peepee in the potty", we had potty parties! When she had he urge (or at least once ever 45 min even without the urge) we would run into the bathroom and get her in position followed by the commencing to wait. When she did her business, I (and everyone else that was in the house) would clap and sing and dance and carry on like idiots while she sat on the throne clapping and kicking her feet. We had music, stickers, confetti, M&Ms, cake on occasion, balloons, I was serious about potty training. I even had potty parties at the mall, I didn't care, I was on a mission! The first few times we would call Nana or one of her other big people so she could brag on herself. She was a little younger so the silliness was pretty equivalent to awesomeness but she knew that when she did her business we were having a 2-3 min party! I had this booty shaking dance I did and everything.  

Copious amounts of naked time and Bribery - M&M's worked wonders with my son.  I let him hang out pretty much naked so we had ease of getting to the potty when the urge struck and so I had less laundry when there was an accident.  I was very pregnant and lugging the laundry up and down was the bane of my existence.

He was almost entirely potty trained (just diaper at night) by the time his brother was born (last August) and he was only 2 years 4 months and was completely out of the diapers at night by 2 years 6 months.  

Peeing was no problem.  Pooping was the part that he was scared of... but my boy loves chocolate and I rarely gave it to him so the M&Ms worked...  

At almost 3 (on May 28th) he still has trouble pulling his pants back up and he prefers to poop naked from the waist down.  I guess it harkens back to all of the nudey time I gave him at the start of things - but hey he doesn't expect some chocolate every time he poops so I guess I should count my blessings.

I am packing Quinn's bags and sending him your way, Rebecca.  He's 4 and well, only pees about 1/2 the time, and no poop in the potty at all.  We've tried everything.  

He's cute and blonde and would make a great friend for Archer, and when you are done potty training, you can send him on home.  Deal???

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thats  the only good part about the sesame street pottytraining dvd but damn, is that a catchy song!

One step ahead has a portable seat that folds up and you can stick in your purse. It fits nicely over any toilet. Also the pooping took longer for my son too it was almost like he was afraid to do it. M&M's help.

Yeah. Candy isn't cutting it at this point for the poop. I guess I just need to be patient with him and hope. Ha, Sheri! I have no idea what I'm doing! But sure! Send him on over! Make sure to pack light, though. It's HOT here right now. Ugh!

Warning warning

I bought my grandson a potty book and on one page it showed a poop pile on the bathroom floor and it sain "OH NO not on the floor"...you guessed it ....  he proudly showed his mother his pile on the floor and exclaimed OH NO not on the floor"  It remains a family chuckle.

My son trained at 2 1/2.  Pee was easy Poop not so easy.  Everytime I changed his diaper I'd say "Poop goes in the potty."  I got to the point where I stopped asking him and just took him.  He'd sit there but not long enough.  I bought Elmo Goes Potty book that came w/ sound effects.  He could only read this book while sitting on the potty. It kept him there to get some results.  I kind of knew his internal clock so I would try to time our visits carefully.

It really helped to see his friends go potty too.

PS - Boys LOVE to go pee outside. It's a two edged sword.

It may be too late to suggest this, but I totally recommend teaching Archer to stand up when he pees right from the get go.  My son just happened to want to "pee pee like Daddy", and I am eternally grateful every time we go into a germy, germ-infested germhouse of a bathroom at the gas station and he doesn't have to sit on the pot.  

Also, pooping came WAY later for my son.  Lots of my friends say this is so.  But we bought a special toy (a remote control VW Van, totally awesome) that was only for playing with after pooping on the potty.  He really liked that as a reward (although to be totally honest this is not what ultimately worked - it was time and time alone that worked - he just had to be ready.  Agonizing, but true.)

Oh my gosh was the poopy part of potty training the hardest for us!!!  We got the potty training down he knew what to do but he resisted to no end.  Then one day like magic it happened.  I found that you want to praise them when they do go, but not overly because they get a fear of making you that much more disappointed if they fail.  Does that make sense?  Actually when mine had an accident I found not saying anything about it worked the best because then he felt like an accident wasn't the end of the world :)

I can't offer a lot of advice since my oldest daughter potty-trained realllly easily and only had one accident after (how it goes with the second kid remains to be seen). But I have heard from my friends with boys that they often take much longer to poop on the potty. And I would second Rachel's suggestion to get him peeing standing up as soon as possible--if he can watch Daddy do it, all the better, because a lot of boys think it looks pretty fun and want to do it that way too.

"Potty time, excellent"  

heh heh

We had the same problem with my son. The 'present' bag only worked with pee-pee.  He still wouldn't poop in the potty.  Someone on a parent's msg board suggested temporary tattoos.  It worked like a charm.  They were novel, something different.  Note that we had a hard time finding them then, we finally found them at a PartyCity store. I always buy them as rewards when I find them now in the dollar bin at Target.

I'm terrified of potty training.  I'm hoping he'll train himself...

My son is Started potty training at 26 months. I started with this www.amazon.com/.../ref=pd_bbs_sr_1 and I carried this in my car for accidents www.amazon.com/.../ref=pd_bbs_3. And at night I used pull ups, but big boy undies were on all day. Poop was harder I noticed he would hide when it was time, so I put his sit down one behind the couch and that helped. Now he's 28 months and just last night pooped in the toilet for the first time, he's potty trained now we haven't used pull ups in about a month. When he had accidents they were just that accidents, I didn't presure him so maybe that helped. Anyhow good luck.

Yvette

I remember this. My daughter was great with peeing in the toilet, no problemo!  She was doing that from 2 years. But poo was a different matter.  Her language was great so I'd have her asking me if she could have a nappy (for you know what), then she'd take herself off into her bedroom, close the door (a girl needs privacy) and then come back smelling terrible. She finally started using the toilet for everything at around 3 if I remember right.

We had a plastic insert for the toilet at home but I don't remember ever taking it with us. Away from home toileting required me in the cubicle.

Best of luck!  (I'll have to do all this again when my little guy gets there - he's only 4 months old now so no rush)

My son used to hide in the corner and poop in his pants, because potty-pooping was so overwhelming to him.  We started doing the M&M bribery thing after a while, because all that laundry (without a washing machine in the house!) was just too much, and it worked pretty well.  (You know, one M&M for pee, two or three for poop, etc.)

Hm, it's just the thing that you have to start really early. I mean, here in my country children start with the potty around 9 months. And they understand it quickly, so a year and half old already knows where to pee or poop. A Mum has to sense when the kid wants to go (just after the sleep and later on after eating etc) and then just puts him/her on to the potty. So no problems. And the early potty training was really common back when there were no Pampers of whatever diapers, just plain muslin and cloth diapers (nobody wanted to cling on them for 4 years). Nowadays all the young people are going with diapers for a long time.

So it's just a suggesting. :)

So my son is 3.5 and has been potty trained going pee for about a year now. He still REFUSES to poop on the potty and it is a daily struggle. We don't force him, we ask him "Do you want to poop in the potty?" but never... it is awful. We just started making him go to the bathroom with a diaper on, and he has to poop in there. When I first made him poop in the bathroom with a diaper, he was pissed. He wanted to be able to play and watch tv while pooping. Yes, he actually screamed "But there's no TV in HERE!!!" Men! ;)

My daughter was fully potty trained in a month once we finally got her to start.  That required about 3 false starts over the course of nearly a year.  She's very stubborn and didn't want the change to using the potty, and so she'd "make us pay" by peeing in her undies and then laughing while we cleaned up the mess.  Of course I didn't particularly find that funny, and once I got angry and made her stand there like that for about 3 minutes before cleaning it up, which changed her tune pretty fast!  Poop was never an issue for us though, she pooped on the potty first, and I remember her facial expression, it was registering surprise.  I think she thought she had to pee, but pooped instead, and after all the congratulatory hoopla she realized that it was pretty cool.  My basic strategy was to put her in big-girl undies full time, and the little rubber pants over top at first.  She had them on 24/7, even at night.  It made for a lot of laundry, but it worked fast.  The first 3 days we didn't leave the house (picked a long weekend and stocked up on food beforehand), and we would take the little potty outside with us in the back yard if we were playing.  Then we had to take short (very short) car trips with potty stops before leaving the house and when we got to the store.  Eventually we made it up to longer and longer trips, and only had an accident once when the bathroom was closed to be cleaned.  Night time was basically the same.  She was able to get up and use the potty on her own, or to wake me up if she wanted help, so I left the bathroom light on and the first few nights she'd wake up in a puddle, and then it gradually got better.  I think daytime training took about a month, and nighttime took about 2 extra weeks.  

Wish me luck with my little boy though, no idea what to do with boys, and he's going to be 2 in 2 months.  Meaning I've probably only got about 8 months of blissful diaper changing left before we buckle down.

No amount or type of bribing would make my Peanut poop on the potty before she was good and ready. She's 3 and a half now and has just now gotten the hang of it. We did find that the Elmo Goes Potty DVD helped her get a bit more interested in the whole thing.

On the sitting vs. standing - I taught my son sitting on a small potty, but when he was comfortable and trained 100% he quickly moved to standing (he wanted to be like daddy) and that has really helped when we are out.

Those folding seats are pretty unstable, so now he just stands to pee and if he needs to poop, then we just cover the seat with paper and he holds on - it is fine!  

Best of luck!  Glad you are enjoying it - once it is over you realize that it's not a big deal!

My grandson "pee" trained quite easily, but the pooping was an issue. That task wasn't accomplised until he was over 4 years old!! Yikes! He insisted on pooping in a pull up, and could hold it until the time was convenient (only at home-never at daycare, cause they wouldn't deal with putting a pull up on him)One day he finally decided that he was ready to poop on the potty and that was it!

My granddaughter is 2-1/2 and she completely potty trained herself in one week!! She wanted to wear princess underwear like her her friends at daycare, and that was it. The ONLY problem is that she ummm loves to put her hand in her underwear!! ALL THE TIME! Hello, Discovery. I told her that wasn't a good idea, and she said "gamma, I just checkin'".

The last time she was over, I was wiping her, and she said "that tickles my bagina gamma". OK Ella, you will now be wiping yourself!! I was just rolling on the floor laughing. GOOD TIMES!

We end up peeing in bushes a lot while we are out!  I guess it's more fun for him...

Yeah. Archer holds it in until I put his diaper on for bed and then he poops in his crib so I get to change him half-asleep when I go in to check on him. SUPERFUNTIMES! And yeah, those porta-thingys scare me. It looks like (based on Amazon reviews) that they pinch bottoms and such. Hmph.

Four words: Once Upon A Potty. Boy version, of course - the girl version worked wonders for my 3rd kid (you'd think I'd have had that crap down by then, but noooooooo) and we'll try it with the 4th. I'm just glad he's only 3 months old, and I still have time before all that.....potty-learning stuff is so not my forte. Oy.

Oh BUT! If you get the OUAP DVD, the freaking potty song? Will drive you completely insane. It was worth it because it got my kid out of diapers/pullups for good....but I came thisclose to smashing that DVD into a trillion bits on a daily basis.......

My second son, Deal, just started using the potty consistently. I thought training him would be soooo easy since he has an older brother (who potty trained in a snap by age 2 1/2). Deal would pee in the potty all day because he so enjoyed wielding his penis as if it were a writing utensil or weapon or something. Pooping was another story. He'd only go in Pull Ups and ask to be changed. I got so frustrated that steam was pouring out of my nostrils. When I finally let it all go and went with the flow, Deal decided to be potty trained. He is almost 3 and totally trained, day and night. No more diapers or Pull Ups in our house!

And as for a travel seat, I never bothered. I let my boys stand on the seat and lean forward (with me there for support, of course) to pee. Once they could stand to pee it wasn't an issue. As for #2, the seat was more trouble than it was worth because it felt so unstable. Now I just put down gobs of TP and let the boys hold on to my arms for support. And hey, peeing on a tree at the park is no big deal!

My son trained at 3 and pee was no problem but he was really scared of the poo thing. Everyday he'd wait until I put him in his pull up for nap and then poop then. Finally one day after lunch I let him play in the backyard for a loooong time instead of putting him down. He pooped in his underwear and was terrified of the feeling. It took awhile for me just to calm him down enough to change him. The next day, the same thing happened. The third day, he was playing in the yard and he suddenly comes running inside and says, Mommy! I want to poop in the potty and get a lollypop!"  And he did. And that was the end of it.

This thing is totally fab!!!!!  Folds down - so easy to take with you!  Best money we ever spent!

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