Potty Training - Riverside, CA

Hi R. -
One of the best pieces of advice I have ever gotten was from my mom. She said that once we decided to start potty training, just set aside a weekend where you won't do any runnign around. Basically, just stay home and devote it to potty training. Completely get rid of pull ups or any kind of diaper since that sends the wrong messege. Big girl undies only! then just set the timer for an hour and every time it goes off, have her got ot the potty. I'll admit it was a pain in the butt...but it worked like a charm. We started on saturday morning and he was potty trained by Monday...before that weekend we had striggled with him for months!!

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Potty training can be really frustrating, but the best trick is just to be patient. Other than that I can suggest just one more thing. This may sound odd but its worked like a charm for me. Try taking your daughter to the bathroom with you when you go and encourage her to use her potty at the same time as you do. My kids loved to copy everything else I did so when I started taking them to the bathroom with me they naturally wanted to copy that too.

Try turning the sink water on and if that doesnt work, turn the bathtub water on full blast.. thats what i did with my daughter and it worked. good luck R.

Hi,

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I have a 6 year old daughter and 27 month old son. My son has been potty trained for a little over 3 weeks now. I found what worked teh best was what another poster said with devoting a whole weekend to potty training. We have 4 days at home with our kids before they go to babysitters while we work (either me or my husband is home) so we worked on it all weekend starting Friday and by Monday he was awesome. I think to get her to pee try giving her alot more to drink than she normally would have maybe give her a treat of juice or soda cause if her body isn't used to it she will have to pee more. I did that with both my kids and it helped get them started and once they start doing it the whole thing just becomes natural. Consistency is really the most important thing just use big kid underwear all day. She may have an accident but she will quickly learn it doesn't feel good. Good luck!

S.

I suggest the book...how to potty train your child in one day. By throwing a party. It is an amazing concept that worked for me...It is written by Teri Crane. Check it out.

Hi R.,
I too am going through the fun of potty training. It basically comes down to do they want to do it & if they want to is their bladder mature enough to work like it's supposed to. I too have been working on getting my 3 yr old son potty trained since he turned 2, & it's no easy task. I decided at 2&1/2 that I would encourage him to use the potty but basically leave it up to him. I did talk about it, all the time,saying stuff like,"Wont it be great when you can go pee on the potty like daddy!" I also would talk about his cousin who he adores who is potty trained & he would always agree that it would be great, but his bladder just wasn't & still isn't mature enough. All kids develope at different rates.
We have started a new thing since he turned 3 in December. He now has a potty chart. It has 24 boxes on it with a picture of a prize he will get when all the boxes are filled with stars. For every time he pees or poops on the potty he gets to place a star in the box. I know, 24 times sounds like a lot, but man can this kid go! He completes it in about 3 days & I let him pick out the prize he will earn. Each time he goes I make a huge deal about what a great job he did & how amazing he is.
She will get it. How many kids do you know that start school who aren't potty trained. Sure, an accident here & there but eventually we all get it. Make the bathroom a fun place where she can succeed. If she has a accident don't make a big deal about it. Just say,"Oh well, next time you'll make it." & when she does, dance & sing with joy for her. Kinda corney but you know they love it. This time in her life is all about her. Hang in there, I know I'm trying. He still wears a pull up & still has accidents once in a while. Since the potty chart, they are down to maybe one every couple days. Night time dry, forget it. Weak bladder during childhood runs in my husbands family. It could be possible it runs in hers too. Worth checking into.
One more thing, my pediatritian recommended I stay home for a week. Keep his potty chair on the floor in the kitchen & keep us confined to the kitchen too. Have him with no pants on & give him tons to drink. What ever he wanted to drink, soda, cool-aid, juice anything. At the end of the week he would know exactly when he needed to go & would always make it. It worked great for her & she had 5 kids. Didn't work so great for us. Staying in one room, yah, not so easy.
Good luck!

Hi R.,
My daughter does the same exact thing. She will poop in the toilet but rairly goes pee. I give her a sticker when she does and I ask her like 10 times aday if she has to go. She is 3 and I think is finally starting to get it. Don;t get discouraged I have been trying to potty train my daughter for over a year. Good Luck!
A.

Ha Ha Ha. It is usually the other way around. Most kids don't want to poo in the toilet. The one thing that I have found that works really good is pouring warm water on their privates. It is really hard for them to not let it go! They might feel guilty that they did, but just reinforce to them how happy you are and what a great job they did!

I hope it works. I have 6 children and my last one just turned 2 in November 2006. She has absolutely no interest in the toilet, other than to sit on her potty chair with her clothes on when I am going. Argh!

Good luck! Let me know if it works. :)

My daughter is doing the same thing!! Ahhh! Please let me know if anything suggested works! =) ____@____.com

Well my children are 13 and 15 now, but i remember being 8 months pregnant and not wanting to deal with the expenses of haveing two children in diapers and none of my potty training efforts seemed to be working, so I finally took her pants off her wunderwear and all, so she ran around my house half naked, (they cant hold it forever) and when she would start to pee, i would swoop her up and race her to the potty.....bless her with lots of praises etc, and also log what time she went in a little notebook, It didnt take long to kind of know when her schedule was and have her sit on the potty until she did something. Well thats what worked for us.....good luck!!

Hi R. :)

I toilet trained my son in 1 day using a Potty Scotty Doll (Potty Patty is for the girls) You basically toilet train your child in ONE day by having them teach the doll to use the toilet and in turn, teaching themselves. It worked really really well. He got the pee thing down right away but he didn't want to poo at first cause he thought that he was "making messy". lol! Once I explained that poopoo belongs in the toilet like his toys go in his toy box etc, he was like "oh! ok!"
Anyway, this method is fantastic and everyone I know who's tried it had wonderful results. I was even trained with it when the method was first created in the 70's.
You can get a Potty Patty lots of places on the internet including ebay. It comes with the doll, an instruction manual, big girl doll undies.
Hope this helps!
M.

Hi R., sounds so similar to my daughter. She will be 3 in early Feb. She just, I mean this week, started frequently going on the toilet. She would sit and go in her earlt 2's but she soon lost interest. Just be patient with the whole thing:) She will soon be out of diapers forever!

I have an idea!

Let's get our two little girls together to have a conversation about pottying in the big girl potty!

My daughter will pee, but refuses to poop... So maybe getting them together will help them both out!!!

If that doesn't catch your fancy, try putting her in panties and when she wets, she'll get uncomfortable. Eventually, she'll know she doesn't like peeing in her panties and will use the toilet.

one of my friends also suggested that you put plastic underwear on them and when they pee in those, it's just liquid sitting there and is really uncomfy... I never tried that one though.

Hello, im a mother of a 2year old girl, and we have been off and on potty training her since she was about 1 1/2(she turned 2 in Nov). She finally started using the potty about a week before her 2nd b-day. She poop's and pee's in it, in the actual potty. She doesnt seem to like to sit on her potty seat on the big potty. But when i first started with her, i sat her on the potty (or her seat) for about 15min and sat there with her. If she went great! If she didnt then i would try again in another 10-15min. Basicly all day long being on the potty. Shes getting very good at it to. She tells me when she needs to go and she goes, we still have her in pull ups tho, shes not quite done with potty training, id give it another 3-4months. good luck! bye4now

R.,
try having her go to the bathroom with you or run some water while you have her on the potty. sometime the sound of running water will have an effect to make one pee.