Potty Training 2 1/2 Year Old

I'm going through the same thing...she's getting close. My 2 1/2 yo girl isn't quite ready, but she too is wanting to be changed after each pee, etc. I already change quite often than most people anyway, but I can tell it's getting quite close.

My boys were already trained by this time, but I guess it's different for my girl here. Just hang in there and don't force the issue. She'll be ready really soon if the incentives that were mentioned don't work.

What I did with my boys were buy a bunch of hot wheel cars and let them choose a new one everytime they went potty. They do have little 97 cent baby dolls at Walmart or get several items at the dollar store.

My daughter is also 2 1/2 and we did the naked thing almost all weekend(over Labor Day) and it worked. She is just too lazy to go to the bathroom! I will say that we tried panties, too, and she would forget that they weren't a pull-up and she peed in them everytime. When she was naked though, she would stop what she was doing and go to the toilet. I used reward stickers and sugar free popsicles, too. Of course at nap time and bed time, she wore a pull-up. Good Luck!

Try putting her in big girl underware so she feels like a big girl. Tell her big girls go in the toilet not their underware. See if that works for her it worked for my daughter.

I would say just keep practicing with the potty. I think that is pretty much step one. My daughter, at around 2 y.o., was interested in the potty and would sit on it at least once a day and go in it (right before bathtime). She was still a long way from telling me when she had to go before she went... that didn't happen until she was closer to three. With my son... same thing. He'd go in the potty once or twice a day pretty early on, and then a couple of months before he turned three we went cold turkey with the pull-ups and with just a couple of accidents, he was pretty much trained. Each kid is different. I'd just keep practicing with her for now HOW to go on the potty. Sit there... read a book or two, make a big deal of it when she does finally go. Once she's comfortable with the mechanics of actually going in the potty, then I'd start thinking about the rest of it. Then I'd start sitting her there more regularly, then start talking about getting her some big girl underwear, etc.. Good luck!

She's still kinda young but just keep doing what you are doing for starters. If you really want her out of diapers now, you can start buy putting her on a schedule starting every half hour. You put her on the potty no matter what and she needs to sit there for at least 5 mins. Doesn't matter if she peed in her diaper between times either or if she doesn't do anything on the potty. Don't say anything more than pee goes in the potty if she does it in the diaper and give her praise for at least sitting and tring. It will take a day or so but she might fall into the schedule and then you can up it by 15 mins and so forth. Potty candy is a good treat for when she does go potty-M&Ms are a good one-1 for pee and 2 for poop.

Good luck and just relax and good with your childs lead. My son for months would grab himself when he peed and bring me a diaper when he has pooped but he isn't trained yet and he's almost 2 1/2. I just follow his lead when he says he has to pee and wants to go into the bathroom. Sometimes he does and others he just dribbles.

S.

Hi S.,

Skittles! or anything else that you can use as a reward. Stars on a chart, etc. Both my little ones really responded well to a candy treat. Now, you are probably thinking I do not want to load my child up on sugar but they are so little I would just give them ONE. Later as you move to bowel movements you could give two- although I gave 3 for BM's as an added incentive. Also the scaricity of the skittles, just one or three, communicated to my kids that it was a special event. To this day if I mention skittles their eyes get big like it's Christmas.
One more thing, if a treat/incentive does not work, a little discomfort might. Like letting her wear real underware that will feel bad on her when she wets. When she chooses to not go to the bathroom/or is so excited that she forgets and tinkles give her the towel to wipe it up. Let her tug her pants off, dry herself, etc.
Good Luck! I really think kids "get it" when they are ready- which is different for each child. If this is becoming a huge source of tension for the two of you- ease up for a while and then come back to it.

Removing the pull ups and putting on the panties worked for us. It can be a little messy but she had to feel the urine running down her leg and did not like it. I had her fresh panties laid out and told her to clean up with a baby wipe and put on fresh panties. This only happened a couple of times and she began using the potty as she did not like doing the clean up. V.

S. A:
Give your daughter some more time for her potty training. There is no set deadline for potty training. My kids weren't potty trained until they were 3 years old.
P. S

put her in underwear and not a pullup - they dont like the sensation.....pull ups in my opinion are just diapers- if you want to potty train- do the naked method or put her in big girl underwear- she'll learn quickly.
goog luck
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At least while at home, I would consider not putting diapers/pull-ups on her at all (except at night). Just let her wear regular panties/training underwear. She might not like getting wet or messy if there is nothing there to absorb the moisture. You may have to wash more often, but not for long. Also, try and remind her before she actually goes and make sure you make a big deal out of being a big girl and using the potty every time she does. It worked for my boys! We even made up a "potty song". :)