Help with Potty Training... - Waterford,MI

My daughter held out until after her third b-day too. She knew how to go at 18 mos. She used to even remove her diaper when wet, because she didn't like it, and bring me a fresh one. One day I refused to change her pee diapers, I told her to put them on herself. I also told her I knew she was a big girl and would like to treat her like one, which means big girl panties and the potty. i told her if she wanted to act like a baby she could change herself, since she already knew how. Within a week she was not wearing diapers.

Hello! I've just finished potty-training twins that are 3. They were a treat. I had one that was fairly easy, but the other wanted to continue being the "baby". Emma kept insisting she needed diapers, I just made sure there weren't any to put on her. It will take a few times, but being consistant is the key. She's going to have a few accidents but eventually it will work. I made a huge deal about potty chocolates. Got the seasonal ones that were hearts. Find something she really wants....but it...but don't give it to her until she's the "big girl". Being relaxed but consistant is the key--or at least that's what helped me...

Hope this kinda helps..

M.

I used to work in a day care center when I was incollege. Back then kids were ptty training at about 2 2 1/2 years. Pull ups werenot invented yet... The potty traiing kids wore COTTON underwear. So when it was wet it was wet and yucky.

As some of the other folks have said - buy some cotton underwear- I suggest the thick traiing pants.. throw out the diapers.. and put her in the cotton pants. You might want to put plastic pants on over the underwear to protect your furniture and carpet.

It might be messy for a couple of days or a week. but she will train pretty quick.

She has to feel the wet yucky pants so she wants to go on the potty- dipaersa nd pullups are so absorbant that the kids never feel wet and have no incentive to stop playing and go on the potty.

Dont get frustrated all kids get trained eventually.

Just keep her in underpants and use those plastic covers over her underpants to help protect furniture and things. Take her potty every 45 min if she goes, when she doesn't go, take her again in 15 min. Use a kitchen timer to remind yourself cause we all know we can't remember a schedual like that! Also, something that might inspire her to try harder is to start potty training your 20 mo old. I believe that if you start well before two showing them the basics, then it makes it easier during serious potty training time after two. Only use regular diapers when she sleeps and if you have to go out, but stick to the underwear ALL the time at home.

If your son is 20months he may be ready to potty train too...maybe if you tried to p-t both of them at the same time it wouldn't seem to your daughter that she needed to be like the "baby" anymore...

I don't believe in pushing your daughterif she isn't ready but since you said she does it sometimes that seems like she is ready.
Maybe you could tell her you ran out of her diapers on a day you know you will be home all day. That way if she does have an accident it won't be that big of a deal. I would go straight to underwear while she is awake. Don't get discuraged if she has accidents. It might be what she needs to do to learn.

Hi my name is K. Womack and i just wanted to say that i have a 3 year old son and 4 year old daughter and we had the same problem with my daughter we started her out potty training at age 2 and it was right before her 4th birthday that she even started going to the potty but we started our son out potty training at age 2 we just put him in some underwear and he started going and it took him only a week to take to the entire potty training thing and thats when we just decided to put our daughter in some panties and would not let her have a pull up or a diaper cause she was real good at peeing in the potty just getting her to go poop was the challenge she would always wait late at night when we would put a pull up on her to poop and we would go through 3-4 pull ups a night cause she would constantly hold her poop.

Hi My name is C. and my middle name starts with R how strange huh? Well I have a 7 yr old boy who still wets the bed at night time so I took him to the family doctor who sent us to a specialist. Since all children are different some children are slower at potty training than others. The doctor said that he should be put on medicine before bedtime and gradually his bladder would mature in time. I used a reward system with my oldest too. I made a potty chart which I believe you can get free online and everytime he went he got a star sticker and then he could pick from a box of little trinkets like a sucker, sticker anything in that form. When I would go potty I would take my son too and he learned that way and consistently asking him if he had to go! Hope this helps!!

hi!i just potty trained my 29 month old. I started jan 1st. she was pee train by feb 14th and poop ,just this past week.I put her straight in underwear. NO MORe diapers and a pull up when she sleeps.if she peed in her underwear, i took them a way and she went bottom less!(she thought if she peed in her underwear, ill just get a new one.WRONG!) she only peed on my floor 3 times and pooped once! my ashley was just stoborn and was a will power thing of who was gonna win.I DID!!!hang in there!