Potty train...I Need Help!!

Hello Lina, I am a mother of six grown children. In reference to potty training, I used a cute little "ritual" In Training mine. I sat them on their Potty, and after they performed, We stood sise by side, and dumped it into the toilet. While flushing, we would tell It > Goodbye! This worked every time! Like Waving, and saying "goodbye poopie"! (smile) Such a Triumph!! I Hope I Have Helped You.

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It's too soon for number 2 especially, as well as any real training at all. Good luck though.

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My 2 1/2 year old is to the point of just wearing pull-ups at night as back-up, so it can be accomplished at this age. We first let her pick out her own potty seat (one that fits over our regular toilet seat) and a stool so she could step up on her own. Once she was comfortable knowing she wouldn't fall in, it made things easier. Each time she went pee in the potty she would get a sticker and lots of praise. When she went poop, she got a sticker, a jelly bean and lots of praise. We also let her pick out her own big girl panties and made a big deal of it when she was wearing them and let her show them off to her grandparents. It made her proud to know she was wearing them.

As far as pooping goes, my daughter used to go and hide as well. I would ask her if she was pooping and if so, I would remind her that we needed to use the big girl potty and if she didn't head towards the bathroom, I would pick her up and take her there myself. She wasn't always happy, but it just reinforced were she needed to be going. If she was already in the process, I would let her sit on the potty with her diaper on and finish. Then we would take the diaper off and dump the pooh in the potty and let her know that is where it belong and then flush and say bye to it.

One important thing to remember is never critize or punish her for having an accident. It's going to happen no matter what precautions you take. I did have my daughter take responsibility for it and help me clean up her accident which in turn gave her more incentive to use the potty.

I hope this helps. It will take time and patients, but she will get the hang of it on her own.

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What I did was get one of those dolls that goes pee and had her train the doll to go potty with rewards and everything. I even had her teach the doll to undress herself so she now undresses and redresses after going to the potty. I had a book that I learned this from called Toilet training in less than a day by Nathan H. Azrin, Ph.D. and another guy. I would check out the library before buying though because you only need it for like a week anyway. She is completely trained except for at night and it took 3 days total.

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Hope things are going well for you. We have successfully potty trained my son He is 3 now. We began at 2 as well it seemed like forever but we did it. It took a few months to be accident free. We just put on big boy underwear and cleaned up messes. I am a working mom so I was blessed with great childcare to help deal with this. Don't sweat it it will happen be patient. I mean really my analogy was he wasn't going to start school in diapers. My main focus was working on the education. All physical things will come with time. One important note I was taught recently by my sister in law (a pediatrician) Night time bet wetting is totally different and unrelated to potty training it's a mind stimulating actual signal to wake up the child to go..... So take note don't beat your self up over the training... good things will happen. Be positive and encouraging no matter how frustrating it may be. Mine still wears pulls at night. We are patiently waiting for dry nights too.

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With help from her teacher in day care, we successfully potty-trained our little girl at 22 months. At the time, I was having another baby and was trying to avoid having two in diapers! Basically, I bought a bunch of panties and extra socks and she wore Crocs everyday until she was trained (I got tired of washing tennis shoes! At least you can just rinse off Crocs and put them back on!) There is an Elmo DVD that she liked about going potty with some funny songs. Then, I asked her practically every 15 minutes or so whether she needed to go potty. I would sit in front of the toilet on her little step stool (I didn't want to be standing over her, waiting for her to go) and we would talk or sing a song. I used to keep a big package of Elmo stickers just out of reach in the bathroom and she could pick one out if she went. As far as Number #2, I think she probably is scared--maybe let her see you go and do it. Then, she will know that everybody does it and it's okay that it's stinky. Hope this helps!

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My little girl now almost 4 Fully got potty trained at 3. #2 Toke forever, she Just mastered that, SO at 2 let her take her time. My Girl hid also for #2 and would get mad, I thought it was funny, I did Stress and I think thats what toke her forever Because I was forcing her, it wasn't HER chose. I did notice what worked was when I redecorated the kids bathroom that made her excited to go in, so Maybe A Cool Chart in front of the potty on the wall, With Stickers, and When She does #2 Add a Sticker but the first time she Goes MAke it a BIG DEAL! My Daughter did her First #2 on Christmas Eve night When Everyone was over and My husband went to whatever store was open at 12 am ( Walmart ) and toke her and had her Choose a toy, of course showing her whatever was under $20. Well Goodluck...

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If taking her shopping for big girl panties does not work, then I can tell you what my kids did for my grandson. He would not go #2 on the potty so they cut a whole thru the pamper and put him on the potty. It worked. He was not liking the spashing of the plop. There are also books you can give her to read on the potty showing what a big girl she is. Then there is the awards program. put up a chart and tell her every time she goes pee pee on the potty she gets a star, let her put the star on the board. Dont push #2 that will fall next. Tell here if she gets a week of stars she can go shopping and pick out a toy.

That worked for both grandsons.

I wish you well.

Lala K.

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