Potty Training - Jacksonville,FL

It seems like you need to start with the potty chair which is more her size, evidently it is not helping you for her to use the toilet. Some children will have accidents of this sort while they are learning. Try to keep account of when she goes and put her on the potty at that time every day for a couple minutes. Good luck. Try not to make too much of a big deal about it. She will learn.

Hi J.,

It's great that she already knows the sensation of having to "go" and wanting to take her diaper off. But at 2, sometimes, they don't totally connect that it has to go in the potty.

My best advice... try to get her to the potty at really optimum times (after breakfast and dinner, etc.) when you are sure she has to go, then read to her or draw on the doodle pro, etc. something to distract her so that she will just have to let it go on the potty. My little girl, 27+ months, used to sit on the potty without actually going, and then either peed standing up somewhere or went in her diaper afterward. That's kind of a good way of practicing the motions of "going" on the potty at first.

Be patient, practice a lot, never reprimand her for not going, just say (when she has an accident somewhere else) that she will make it to the potty next time, etc. It is so hard, but not pushing them and allowing them to come to the understanding in their own way happens much faster than forcing it, having them regress, starting over, etc.

Sounds like you guys are really on the right track!

Good luck,
K.

this worked for my 2 yr. old.....if you are using some sort of a "potty chair", then sit on the toilet while she sits on her potty, and maybe she will sit longer if you can both "potty together" good luck :)

Hi J.,

My little girl was potty trained before the age of 2 that is because she is so advanced. Just like they say boys should go with daddy to the bathroom so he can learn, that what i did with my daughter. When I went she went with me and we were in pull-up only at night but during the day she had on panties. Now she has been potty trained for about 8 months now, and no pull-ups at night. Also i cut her drinking after 8-8:30 everynight. Just have PATIENCE, she already sound like she is ready.

Give her story books to sit and keep her occupied, she's only 2 and her attention spand is very short ... when she does use the potty make a big fuss about it - give stickers, loud praises, clap, hug, kisses etc ... pretty soon she'll be running to the bathroom. when she poops in her diaper, take her to the tiolet and let her see u dump it and tell her that is where it should go. Tell her when her tummy hurts she needs to sit on the potty. Take her to the potty before she goes to bed and as soon as she wakes up, before u leave the house and as soon as you return so she will know that she is going to get an opportunity to use the potty. I potty trained my son at 2 years so it can be done. I mainly used stickers for rewards, my son was learning to identify letters at his daycare so he got to choose which letter he would receive and proudly wear to daycare that day ... his teacher knew if he had a sticker that he used the potty that morning and she would immediatley praise him when he walked in the class. We slowly advance to giving a thumps up as training progressed and faded the stickers out. Good luck!

We're working on potty training our 3rd daughter now. We keep a couple of the potty books on the back of the potty and I sit on a stool in the bathroom and read them to her while she is on the potty. The books we have are Once Upon a Potty, I'm a Big Dog Now and Everybody Poops. My youngest is particulary interested in Everybody Poops.

They have a Dora potty seat for the big potty and a little potty chair.

Also watching potty videos from the library while she sits on her little potty was helpful. My second daughter LOVED the Elmo potty video.

We used m&ms (AKA potty treats) for my older daughters. They would get 1 for tinkle and 2 for poop. Then we would wean them off. Sometimes we'd have to use them again after awhile.

You may have to start and stop the process a few times. Good luck.

For my daughter, I picked a book that she liked and kept it only by the potty. We only read that book when she was on the potty. She still remembers that "If you give a pig a party" was her "potty book". When she was at my mother's, she had her own potty book there also.

My 2nd daughter used to do that too and it would sometimes drive me crazy because we would try the "sit while mommy reads a book or we'll sing a song or look for your pee pee or lets count to..." you get the idea. especially since my first daughter was so easy to train. I was told by many family members (never my husband as he supported me) that she was not ready and i was being a (many foul words here)kind of a person. but i was persistant by not putting anymore diapers or pull-ups on as that would confuse her and we kept up with our games until she sat still... and yes, she made many accidents, to really get the hang of it. it was hard not to shout and get frustrated as that would have made matters worse, but we cleaned up the messes together and when she got bored of that she tried a little harder to get it in the potty. i think the true kicker was that she began to understand her reward system of 1 mini m&m for a pee-pee and 2 for a poopie. and when she really got the hang at home and was ready to try going away from the house, she got to pick out her very own panties and became a proud potty- trained 2 year old. she is now 3.5 and will have the occasional accident right as she is getting onto the toilet, but since we first started she was always to busy in the first place to be at the potty. but she learned how to clean it up and she doesn't panic or have potty anxiety, just takes it in stride and reminds me" yeah i'm still a little girl, but i'm getting bigger mom and i'll try not to pee pee on the floor again mom- it's ok, we just clean it up". time, persistance and stay relaxed- they eventually get it. some kids learn with a few mistakes, others it takes a great many more.

Try books. Any kind that she can hold and likes to look at. OR you could get one of those musical books (with the buttons that play music down the side) and only allow her to play with it on the potty (be sure to get her a "kid" seat to go on the big seat so she is comfortable).

Also, it's an OLD OLD trick, but try turning on the faucet when she gets on the potty. Something about the running water sounds usually will help cause a "release"...
good luck!

Best advice I can give you is go online to a site called www.3daypottytraining.com. You can buy a downloadable book from there and let me tell you IT WORKS! My son wouldn't even tell me when he had to go and he was trained in 2 days. :-) No more diapers! Good luck!

well 2 suggestions the first one came from a lady who teaches parenting classes. #1-- get her special book that she really wants or likes. this will be her potty book she can only look at it when she is sitting on the potty.keep it in the bathroom or this purpose but out of her reach. remember she can not look at this book any other time then when she is sitting on the potty. do not give it be adament about the potty book.
the second idea is from a mom who did daycare for 20 years or so. #2-- get you a M & M dispencer (it is like a small bubble gum machine but it dispences M & M's instead every time the child makes potty in the potty chair they get to pull the hand on the M & M down and get a small handful of M & M's. she said her kids loved to make potty in the potty so they could pull the hand down.
hope one or both of these ideas help you hon good luck.also i really do not believe in the pull ups they feel just like a diaper so i would use big girl panties. if you have to go somewhere buy the terry cloth panties and get the rubber(or plastic) ones to go over the big girl panties. kids can not differenciate between the pull ups and the diapers they feel the same and absorb the liquid so they do not care but with big girl panties they feel their body wet and do not usually like that sensation. but that is just me.

Go to:
http://www.potty-training-in-one-day.com/
I know it sounds too good to be true, but I had a co-worker who lent my the whole set (the doll and everything) and I printed out the charts, and it worked. It's a little expensive, but it's so much cheaper than the diapers that you'd be buying. For some kids it takes a few days and not one, but most people I've talked to that have used it said it took less than a week.
Hope this helps, and good luck, I know it's a pain potty training.