I need help with potty training!! I’ve tried everything! Bought many different kinds of potty’s for the floor, and seats for the actual toilet and nothing. I’ve tried to bribe him, used Cheerios everything. I make him sit in underwear from when I get home from work at 2 until he gets in the bath at night, and he won’t go all day until the bath. I have neighbors with young kids so I can’t just let him outside naked to try that way also. As soon as I mention sitting on the potty he screams bloody murder. He’s going to be 4 in September and I need help and more ideas please! I’ve been trying so hard and I’m tired of hearing family tell me he should be potty trained already when I’m seriously trying!
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Sounds like he isnt ready and you cant make him or force him to use it when he isnt willing to or even interested in it yet
My 4 year old boy and 3 yr old girl are the same!!
He may just not be ready yet.
When i was working with 2yr olds we simply went every 30 min until they got regular then every hour- theyd get a treat if they went. Id have them sit there for awhile! Do not use pull ups just underwear! Dont let him see your frustrated!! Also try turninf him around on toilet ans give an Expo marker so he can write/draw/color on the toilet seat easy clean up
There’s an actual toilet seat that has an extra piece that folds down so little bums don’t fall through… (didn’t find this out til my 4th kid!!) but it’s awesome. I’d let him in the bathroom with you, have him flush, say bye bye high fives etc. then wash hands with really bubbly soap. Lol every kid is so different. Could also put a stuffed animal on the toilet and talk to it like it’s a kid, maybe your son will copy and tell him good job… don’t let outside stresses make you feel frustrated, your son will be able to sense it.
I did mini m&ms 2 if he peed 4 for a poop … they were tiny so it wasnt much choc … also after he was trained he would have accidents bc he wouldnt want to stop playing to go so whenever he did that I’d make him stop playing with whatever it was until the next time he went potty to earn it back…whether it was a toy a video game tablet or watching something…it went up and full privileges earned back next time he went potty
Take one square of toilet paper, draw a bullseye target on it and challenge him to shoot and hit the target. Dont laugh it works.
Kids urinal
My son loved it.
Put him down first thing every morning and have a daddy or man famy.member show him how to use it like a game . Like gal said above if he sees your upset over it it will block his performance
Place a stepping still so he can reach while sitting in the toilet and tell him to hold from the side of the toilet seat.
Tell him that’s better 
Good luck 
I meant a stepping stool 
The best thing that worked for me it’s a little bit of tough love… He’s at the age where he understands the concept… So if he has an accident moving into the bathtub and make him clean himself up…he probably won’t care so much about cleaning up pee but if he poops and has to wipe it himself, you know the best that he can (before you step in)… Trust me they get the concept pretty clearly when they tell you they don’t want to touch the poop, then you can clearly tell them it’s not your poop and you don’t like touching it either. 
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I know it’s a risk to your flooring, but naked potty training worked with both my kids. I just leave their bottom halves uncovered and they caught a really quick. With my daughter I would just put her in a long shirt or dress with no bottom with my son a long t-shirt.
He is plenty old to train, and understand. Try putting himself in charge. Put him in undies, tell him when he messes himself, here are clean ones. You decide when you’d rather use the toilet and keep yourself clean. Done.
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Can’t force them. My one son it took an older boy laughing at him for still wearing a diaper. He snuck off and put underwear on then and just started using the toilet. My older two both weren’t fully potty trained until about 5 almost six. It’s more common than you think. A lot of my friends kids it’s the same thing. I wouldn’t worry too much. Try talking to them, that’s important, they don’t know what you don’t tell them. Tell him diapers are only for babies, he’s not a baby anymore. Take video of you changing him so he can see what it looks like from a different perspective, I think they like the attention of a diaper change sometimes. Tell him he’s gonna have to start helping to clean himself if he wants to mess all over himself like that. But essentially it all depends on them.
When my boys were potty training, I would buy them their favorite action character underwear and tell them if the peed or pooped on them, they were going to pick their butt. Lol. And with my girls, I’d get their favorite princess underwear and tell them if they peed or pooped on them they weren’t allowed in their castle. Amazingly, it worked like a charm for both