You dog isn't stubborn. You are a lousy dog trainer. Put the blame where it belongs. House training is a habit. Nothing more, nothing less. Your dog has the habit of peeing on the carpet. You must teach her a new habit. Get a crate for the dog and she is put in the crate when she is in the house. As long as you don't lock her up for an unreasonable amount of time, she won't soil her crate. Take her out frequently. Stand there and watch her. Praise her when she relieves herself outdoors. Let her play for awhile, then back inside and into the crate. Until she is 100% reliable, never allow her to be loose in the house unless there are eagle eyes on her every second. That means you do not take your eyes off of her. If you can't watch her, place her back in the crate. Do not punish for house accidents. All you are teaching the dog is to hide from you. If she starts to sniff, take her outside. Wait and watch her so you can praise her when she potties outside. Food treats for doing her duty outside work well in teaching it is what you want her to do. You have to prevent her from relieving herself inside. You have to teach her that relieving herself outside pleases you. That is two distinct and separate lessons. If you are diligent, it will take about 2 weeks to have the correct habit firmly established. Although it might take you longer because you have punished your dog for relieving herself, so it will take her longer to tinkle outside when you are watching, for fear that you will punish her. Do not leave her locked up in the crate longer than she can hold it. If you force her to soil her crate, you teach her to relieve herself inside the crate and then you really have a house breaking problem (of your own creation)

Lots of good advice here. I remember my mom telling me that she got me potty trained by telling me that she would buy me pretty little lace panties if I would start using the toilet. She said I started using the toilet and she bought me the pretty panties. hee-hee! I have boys and they take a little longer than girls in general. We pushed our first one too soon and had to back off and let him do it at his own pace. Poor little guy would get constipated and we'd end up using "positories" as he called them to help him. He was about 4 before he was fully trained. Our second son started potty training himself wanting to do everything big brother was doing, then went backwards when son number three was born, but eventually got back on track. Third son copied older brothers but also enjoyed going pee outside in the backyard and once on the garage floor - 'cause it made a loud noise and was funny to him. I think the thing that got my boys to using the potty was watching one of those potty training videos. There was one where the song went, "Now I'm going to the potty, potty . . . Yes, I'm going to the potty, potty, etc." They enjoyed singing that song when they went to the potty and it was just one of those songs I couldn't get out of my head! A friend of mine started laughing at me a couple months ago when I was talking about this subject to someone and started singing that song. She said it was the same video she used for her daughter! Check your local library to see if they have any potty training videos available for check out. We checked this one out for two weeks with my second son since he enjoyed watching it so much!

Several thoughts about potty training - things I have learned from experience, reading and other mothers. I strongly suggest you get boys in the habit of peeing sitting down. Here is my rule- when you are at someone's house, you pee sitting down. This is because little boys miss (as do big boys) and who wants to clean up my kid's mess. At public places, I prefer he stands. At home, he can do either one. But mostly my little three year old sits. He doesn't really have the coordination for the standing part yet. Although he does at times drag his stool over and try to do it standing. At some point kids don't want to be compared to babies and don't want diapers. We really have not pushed the toilet training. The only thing we would do is talk about how diapers are yucky and poopy and baby (she's just a year now) wears a diaper. If we caught him pooping in his diaper, we'd stop him and put him on the toilet. This was just to get him to know the feeling of when he had to go. Pretty soon, he'd start telling us he had to go. At that point we let him pick out a package of underwear and that is what he wore except for naps and night time. One mother in our playgroup tried just setting a timer and every hour setting her son on the toilet. That seemed to work great. Another mother I know tried the Potty Training in a Day system. It's more than a day. Recently I read that the average time to potty train a child is about 8-9 months. I'd skip the pull ups. Everyone I know who has used them has had problems with the kids thinking they are diapers. It is more confusing to the kids I think. The day care workers I know say the same thing.

It's not too early to start talking about how Big People peepee in the toilet. You need to start at least talking to him about what is wanted. Let him know that Big People dont' wear diapers. He may decide that it is a good idea. Lead him to the bathroom and encourage him to at least try it. Get him to understand that this is important and that this is something that he should try to do. Watch him carefully and if he gives any kind of signal that he is about to wet or have a BM, then take him to the bathroom. Be consistant. You can't try training him one week and then spend a day or two doing other things and being too busy to keep on with it. He will get the idea that you aren't all that serious about it. Try before the bath, bedtime and after meals. With little boys, sometimes the daddy has more influence on this than mommy does. It one of those "guy" things. If he is tall enough, standing up to pee sometimes works better than trying to get him to use a potty chair. Have a low stool or a thick book to stand on helps. Just waiting for him to show an interest isn't always a good idea. Some children, particually boys just won't get the idea on their own. Why should they?? Diapers are handy things and they are not bothered by being wet or soiled. Using the Potty isn't on their list of interesting things to do. You really shouldn't wait. He may not get interested on his own and then you will be faced with a child that will REALLY be hard to train.