How Long It Takes: Older Child
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Potty Training
Asked by R.F. from Sarasota
on August 11, 2006
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I would like to know of some good tips for potty training. It has been a long time since I had to do this so do anyone have any tips for?
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- Hi R., These are all really good advise. I myself have learned a few things. I am potty training a 4 year old with Down syndrome. Talk about a challange. My other tw...
- Hi R., I agree with all of these ideas that everyone has submitted to you. I would like to also add that for both my kids I bought them underware with their favor...
- with my daugter, she was not interested till she was 2 years old and i got lucky. she got chicken pox and was home for one week solid. I put her in paties and took h...
Potty Training?
Asked by H.D. from Dallas
on February 17, 2008
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Hi, moms! This is kind of long but I am very anxious about this. This is for those of you with little ones you've recently potty trained. My son is 22 mo. and my pedi ...
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- H., I just remind myself that my son will be potty trained at some point. He'll be 3 in June. He loves to go on the potty but does not remember to tell me. The mo...
- The best advice I can give you is to relax. It does sound like he is showing signs of interest but it still may take a little while. The best book I can recommend is...
- Hi H., My name is A.. I have a 7 year old boy, and an 8 month old girl. I found that potty training has everything to do with the child. I started potty training Gavi...
Potty Training!!!
Asked by B.A. from Los Angeles
on January 24, 2007
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We've been working on potty training our daughter for over 6 months now... We've got the potty part down, it's the pooping that she's having a very tough time with.
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- My son would do the same thing. He would poop as soon as you put a pullup on him at bed time. So we put a potty in his room, and put a gate across his door and told hi...
- I had a similar experience with my daughter and realized that no matter how much we tried getting her to go, she wouldn't and that she would go when she was ready. I ...
- Hi B.! Unfortunately I don't have much advice to offer. But I wanted to lend moral support by telling you that this is common. It takes lots of kids longer to maste...
Potty Training
Asked by D.E. from Detroit
on March 5, 2008
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Hi! does anyone else have trouble potty training? i have a daughter who will be 3 in may and she was doing really well until recently she started going both number 1...
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- The last thing you want to do is go back to diapers! You have to stay firm and on track. My daughter LOVED her diapers. I had to finally take the diapers away from ...
- what worked well with my son was EVERY time he went to the potty we let him have a dumb dumb sucker. After he mastered the #1 part and was having troubles with the #2...
- I say take away the pull-ups. I never used those with my oldest (alomst 4) and he was potty trained 2 weeks after his 2nd birthday. I have seen people use the pullups...
Potty Training
Asked by T.L. from Rochester
on May 3, 2008
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Help! I'm at my witts end with Potty Training. My 2 1/2 year daughter will go poop on the potty but she won't pee. She hates pull-ups and diapers and lately only wa...
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- The most valuable thing I learned from potty training my son is that kids do it successfully exactly when they're ready and not a moment before. You can provide them w...
- T., I am having similar problems with my daughter as well. She will go poo-poo but not pee...it is very frustrating! I've always been told that pooping is the har...
- Potty training can be the most stressful time. I have 3 children (9,7,4) and sympathize with you. They are 2 1/2 years apart each too. The first boy was a nightmare, ...
Potty Training
Asked by B.A. from New York
on October 14, 2007
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I am a first time mom and I have a 26 month old daughter. She has shown some interest in the potty and I figured that it is about time to start potty training. To be ...
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- She may not be totally ready. Some children have issues with letting a part of them go into a toilet, kind of an attachment thing. Just encourage her and make sure tha...
- Hi B., I am a first time mom of a 3 year old. She showed great interest in the potty around 2 and would go once a day. After a month or so, she stopped showing inte...
- Hi B., the amount of time it takes really all depends. Often if you wait longer, it takes less time. My daughter trained in 4 days at 3 yrs, 1 month. I started with...
Potty Training
Asked by R.P. from Los Angeles
on January 25, 2007
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My daughter will be 3 in march and I have been working on potty training her for a while now! At the begining of age 2 she was more then willing to sit on the toilet a...
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- 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 ...
- 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 po...
- 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......
Potty Training
Asked by M.W. from Los Angeles
on January 2, 2010
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Any good books about potty training? I only ask because I know that going #2 in the toilet is usually the hardest part. We don't push her or force her because we don't...
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- Hello, My name is A., and I have a B.A. in Child Development and Family Studies. I worked in child care for quite a few years. I have a website where I have put up ...
- i got my son to go #2 in the toilet by taking his diaper over to the toilet and dumping the poop in and having him flush and we'd say "bye bye poo poo" i also would go...
- OK, let me start by saying I did not like this but my mother-in-law just sat my 2y4m old son on the toilet and wouldn't let him off for a little while. He cried a fre...
Potty Training
Asked by M.E. from San Antonio
on June 6, 2007
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I have been trying to potty train my daughter. just wondering any suggestions for this first timer? I have been taking her the potty as often as i can, but she just ...
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- I have been working with my 2 year old as well. I really do the same thing as you are doing. I take her and have her sit on the potty for maybe 5 minutes. I have bo...
- I have a 2 1/2 year old daughter and an 8 year old son. They were both potty trained by the time they were 2 1/2. For my son we let him run around "free" for a few d...
- Introduce her to the potty but don't push. She will do it when she's ready. I have 3 girls and not one of them potty trained when and how I wanted them to. They all...
Potty Training
Asked by A.R. from New York
on November 29, 2008
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Hi! My daughter just turned 2 November 3rd. I was wondering is she ready to be potty trained and how to go about doing it? She tells me when she's gone in her pamper B...
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- I was told if in the morning their diaper is dry, that is the sign they are ready for potty training. It does make sense.
- Hi A., Yes by all means go for it. Your daughter is intelligent, she doesn't like messy pampers touching her skin. Now you an introduce her to a way to eliminate ...
- Hi A., Pretty name. I am a mom of a just turned 2 yr. old little girl (Oct. 29) and a 13 yr. old girl. I saw my daughter interested in the potty at about 18-mths. bec...
