Potty Training Problems

Well, my daughter was about 2 1/2yrs when we actually potty trained her, we tried a little earlier but she seemed to get bored with it and eventually she would refuse completely. She did the same thing your's is doing now the first time. What I ended up doing is letting her take some time off and we decided to go about it another way. I got a book that suggested a "potty party" which is what we did. In the morning she wore diapers but we potty trained a doll that i had gotten her. The doll had accidents and then she would sit on the potty to help her remember to use the potty and when the doll stayed dry she got rewards of stickers or small treats(of course my daughter got the treats). after my daughter's nap the doll was still dry so she got a small present as a reward. Then I had Tabitha put her big girl panties on. The afternoon was the same as it was for the doll. If she had an accident she had to sit for a minute or two to help her remember, if she stayed dry she got a small treat and if she told me she needed to use the bathroom on her own and actually did she got a bigger treat. At the end of the day we had a small party to celebrate her victory. This worked out pretty good. . .lasted for a week. Then she began refusing to use the potty chair again. i figured she wasn't ready so i let her go back to diapers, 10-15 accidents a day was too much! Then out of the blue she started using the potty again on her own. I still ask her if I notice that she seems like she needs to go but I stopped bugging her all the time about it. I think she needed to decide to do it for herself and she didn't like me forcing it on her. I don't know if the "potty party" helped, maybe a little, but I think mostly she just liked being in control of when she would stop using diapers. So, it helped when I wasn't being as aggressive about it (asking her every hour) and I think it really helped that I let her go back to diapers (although I thought it was going to be a major set back) so she could choose when to stop using them again.

I am potty training my 25 month old son and when we first started we had to take him every 20-30 minutes until he got the hang of it. Now he will wait for and hour or more but we still have to take him if he says no. We were asking him and he would tell us the same thing and a few minutes later would have and accident. Now instead of asking we tell him it is time to go and he has been accident free for a couple weeks. I don't tink they have the concept of when they have to go and when they do realize it is to late. You just have to be consistant with it even if she tells you no. I hope this helps.

she is very new to potty training and her telling you will not happen right away. When she does have an accident take her to the potty and just explain to her we pee in the potty. My daughter was trained at about 25mos and she did very well at taking herself but she is just now where she take her self all the time and she will be 3 in 2 mos. You will have to remind her for a while. Good luck she is doing excellant!!

do not ask her take her, when she has accident still sit her on the potty. I wish my son would potty train more easily, but i think by whati hear girls are more easier to potty train. Heres a funny story im going to share, yesterday my son said he want to go potty, i took him with me in the restroom so we both could go, he did not want to sit on his potty, he had his pull off, he stood on top of the lid of his toilet and peed everywhere(aaaaaaaaa lol.)even got my shoe, he still needed to go he still would not sit on his potty and peed on the floor, at the daycare he is going to now he is sitting on there toilet trying to go. He will be 3 in november. Good luck.

My daughter is 21 months and nearly potty trained. When she started showing an interest in using the potty instead of diapers I just let her run around in a dress with no diaper or panties. She had a few accidents at first (some people say to have the child and potty seat outside at first) but then she just started going by herself. I tried not to take her anywhere for about a week while she got the hang of it. Now she wears panties and will usually tell me when she has to go. We very rarely use Pull-ups because if she has an accident in them then she doesn't get wet and thus misses the concept of the accident. It's tough at first! My son was in potty training for 6 months before he finally got it! One last word, my daughter still uses a diaper at bed time. She's still too young to hold it until morning (or after a nap). But as soon as she gets up it's off to the potty and then she gets to choose which panties she wants to wear. Also I've noticed that asking her if she has to go seems to make her actually have more accidents. So I only ask her if it's been a long time since her last visit to the bathroom or if she's really involved in something that might make her 'forget' to go.
Hope this helps and best of luck!
C.
P.S. I have heard that having a child around potty trained peers helps immensely.