Potty-Training - Bellmore,NY

I think the larger questions is, is she showing signs of readiness? You do not need to say home for a week. You can go places, just make sure you go to the potty before and also right when you get home. You can use the potty in public, but you really need to put her on there every 1/2 hour in the beginning to avoid accidents and you need to have a very small treat ready. I used Annie Bunny Treats and they worked well. I think going out is good because they are more likely to be afraid to have an accident in public and its a good place to start. But, do no go out until after she has pooped since you don't know if she will poop or pee train first. As for the pool, just treat it as you would leaving the house. Potty before pool, the every 30 minutes. But like I said, she has to be showing many signs of readiness or there is not point.

A child, will have accidents.
Even if they are already potty trained and already older.
Then there is night-time dryness. Which does not occur, biologically, until even 7 years old. And this is normal.

She is not ready, for underwear.
She has to be ready.
She has to have her biological development, in place first.
There is the brain/bladder/nerve development, which impacts when a child can attain, potty mastery.

Accidents will occur.
Whether ready or not.

Potty training takes time.
And will take much more time, if the child is not ready, emotionally or biologically.
It occurs, in stages.
Not in one swoop.

By the time my son was ready, to go out in just underwear, it took about 6-8 months, of him being in it just at home.

Any kid, if in a pool, wears swim diapers. Until they are completely potty trained and don't need it anymore.

Wearing underwear, will not make a child dry or potty trained. By itself.
It is a stage, to progress toward. Not just put on, and then the child is trained.

Kids, even in Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st Grade, still have accidents, even if potty mastered. I know, that is what ALL of my daughter's Teachers, have said.
It is their biological maturity... and then the child's ability, to know their biological cues, and then being able to time it (their body) along with how long they then can hold their bladder/bowels, before rushing to a toilet.

My son is 4 almost 5. And he is still in diapers for nap and bedtime. He is still wet, during sleep. It is normal.
My daughter, was still in night time diapers even at 5 years old. And this is normal.
Kids will have night-time accidents. Until their physiology is matured.
My kids do NOT get 'confused' about the need for diapers at night. I simply tell them their body is not ready to be dry at night. No biggie. They understand. They understand the progress... of their BODY, developing.
Because I explain it to them. Not just expecting them to be dry and accident free. All the time.
It is a biological, attainment and development.

Kids will have accidents until they are physically and emotionally developed enough to recognize urges in time, and hold them until they get to the potty, and then release the muscles so they can go. They really have to want to do this, which is where emotional readiness comes in. Until that time, you will be the one who is trained to get your child to the bathroom on schedule. And too much pushing from a parent can actually set the process back by weeks or months, so it is helpful to consider the child's readiness.

I don't think swim diapers are a big problem. Many children need diapers for awhile on public outings, overnight, or specifically for pooping, until they get the whole process figured out. This has not confused any of the children I've known about personally. If they are ready to learn how to use the potty, they are generally motivated, and keep at it until they succeed.

Here's the most informative website I've ever found on potty training. It gives a few variations on "readiness" checklists, plus tips on various training strategies, the best ages to start them, and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach: http://www.parentingscience.com/toilet-training-readiness...

For the very beginning, it might be helpful to stay mostly at home and if she's getting the hang of it quickly, wander out. She is so young though, that just getting her used to pottying at home is a good step, even if you opt to diaper her and not expect her to use the toilet in other places just yet.
As for the pool, my suggestion is to allow her pool time just after she pees/poops so you're pretty sure there won't be an incident in your pool
I did use the multilayer cloth training pants with waterproof outer layer. I think they were gerber brand. I got them at walmart. I wouldn't bother with pullups, either use cloth trainers or keep her in regular diapers when training.

If your using water proof underwear in the car I don't see why you have to stay home all week. I took my daughter to the park for a while in her pull ups and took her to the potty there. It was funny because I had to hold her hands so she didn't feel like she was going to fall in (didn't have her potty seat).

With the pool, I would think since her whole body is going to be wet she won't recognize when she has to potty or when she is wet in one specific area if she's in the water proof underwear in the pool. If it's your pool then you don't have to use swim diapers but I would say to maybe change the water after if it's one of the little pools (I think swim diapers absorb pee, right?).

Or if what your sayin is you don't want her to think she's back in diapers you can put the swim suit on without any diaper, but she may pee in the pool (but a lot of kids and adults pee in pools lol). Maybe try and have her use the potty before the pool. I wouldn't get her use to wearing underwear in the pool :)
Remember the casual approach, don't get too emotionally involved in it.

Good luck :)

When I potty trained my 3 (now 2, 4, 6), I did the same - took away the diapers and they only wore underwear. I made a big deal about taking them to Target for big boy/girl underwear that they got to choose (get a lot or you'll be doing laundry every day). There were many accidents on days 1 and 2 (thank God for hard-wood floors) and then just a few random accidents after that. They wore pull-ups at night and when we left the house that first week. I discovered cotton training pants for my 3rd (at Target and online) that really held up well and felt like thick underwear so she almost never wore pull-ups. I also used swim diapers when in the pool. All 3 were potty trained within a week all before they were 2 (although my middle one regressed when the 3rd was born).
Good luck to you. It can be a very frustrating time so just be consistent and most importantly, patient.

I use the Gerber Training Pants (super absorbent -- they come in 18 mos., but you might have to buy them online to find that size. That's the size I have my 2.5-year-old in) with a Dappy diaper cover (size sm) over the top when we go out. When I was first training my daughter, she had a couple accidents that were so large that the training pants and diaper cover didn't completely hold everything, but it still helped contain quite a bit. Now my daughter has the hang of it, and if she does have a little accident, it won't even reach her clothes because of the training pants and diaper cover.

We've only gone in sprinklers, and I've left the diaper off of my daughter. I take the portable potty (le pottette, it is awesome!) with us, and my daughter lets me know when she needs to go, even though she is wet in her suit already.

I have 2 packages of pull ups that a friend gave me once her daughter was potty trained. I've tried to put my daughter in these twice. Both times she announced she was wearing a diaper again. I tried to explain that, no, these were disposable underwear because Mommy hasn't had a chance to do laundry, but who was I kidding?... not her!