Help with Potty Training - Yonkers, NY

WELL I'M A MOTHER OF TWO A 20 YEAR OLD AND A 14 YEAR OLD. AND BOYS ARE USUALLY HARDER. MY BOYS WERE POTTY TRAINED BY THE AGE OF 3. THE ONLY THING THAT WORKED FOR MY BOYS WAS THE SMALL POTTY. EVERY TIME I HAD TO USE THE REST ROOM I WOULD PUT THEM ON THEIR POTTY AND TELL THEM YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE MOMMY SO THAT YOU CAN BE GROWN TOO. DON'T PUSH IT ON HER AND EVENTUALLY SHE WILL LET YOU KNOW SHE WANTS TO USE IT. AS PARENTS WE WANT THINGS TO HAPPEN FAST AND AT OUR TIME. BUT EVERY KID IS DIFFERENT. GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS.

Hi J.,

I have 2 children a 8yr old girl and 5 yr old son.. The first advise I can give you is be patient and do not pressure your child. The second is everytime you use the bathroom, take your daughter with you. She's gonna want to do what mommy does. Convince her to sit in her potty and before you know it she'll be doing it on her own. Don't forget to award her with a little "yeah..that's my girl!" It worked with me and hey she's 8 now! I have to say the potty training process was easy. Much luck!!!

Potty training is a hard thing to do if you're not into it. Since you have a daughter, the easiest way for her to start is to go in the bathroom when you have to. Take off the pull up because, like my own son, she will think it's a pamper since it feels and sounds like one. If she stays home with you, have her walk around all day without a pull up but with a pretty set of panties and ask her constantly does she have to go especially if she is playing alot. Since I have a boy, it was hard for me to show him how to stand up since he didn't have a man around to show him but as soon as I took off the pull up he started using the bathroom.

My advice to you is always keep the potty around and sit her every 15 to 20 minutes, keep her in underwear, they do not like to feel wet so after a few days of you insisting and explaining what she is doing she will like the idea of going in the potty. My two girls fully potty trained at night and day at 2 1/2. Hope this works just be very persisting.

Hi J. F

I am a mother of 3 and a provider. I have learnedthat children of this error don't want to wear underwear, unless you start them off early. Potty traing is going to be somewhat hard now.
First i won't use pull up cause they are just like pampers. I used real underwear and take her in the bathroom everytime i went to use it. I brought a pieace for the toliet and made a games out of it. I used the potty for the living room when see was watching tv, or playing around the house. Sometimes my kids ran bottoms off. But i kept it up, I also used rewards of there favorite items they liked. Prasie was another thing. My children were on the potty by the time they were 1year old. This is how i did it early. She is two and all she know now is pamper feeling not cloth feeling. Underwear may seem hard but girls love it when they feel speacial and pretty. Just but 3 pair ddiffrent colors and suprise her with them and say mommy brought her big girl underwear like mom. Cause big girls use them not pampers. This will take time but in the end it's worth it. I have notice children traing in pullups can't understand whats the diffrence. Can you get her to say pee-pee yet. Praise and reward is it. When the accidents happen just tell her you will get it and hug her and let her know it's ok to have accidents. Than start over again with a new pair. patients is the answer now. With your nexr child try it at a tyear old and see by the time she is 18month old is done. she will proberly take untill she is almost 2/12 to 3 now, cause she feels safe in pampers and knows this is were to soil them at. J. keep up with the potty training until she gets the diffrence. Try underwear it's diffrent for them,remember to take her to the bathroom everytime you go or pretend to go just to see if she gets it. good luck and happy trails.

I'll explain to what I did with my daughter. She's not 100% potty trained but she's almost there.

I tried patiences because you definitely need it for this task. I went to the bathroom and explain to her what I was doing. I even put panties on her. But the magic didnt kick off until I brought stickers and told her if she uses the potty she gets a sticker. She decorated her potty with stickers. The next thing, since stickers will not be on my parent's toliet or public restrooms, we have a peepee song. Everything she uses the potty, we sing and we clap.
We do Hi-5s and stuff. She likes it and she uses the potty at home, with my parents and in public. Now, i'm working on the middle of the night part. Good Luck!

Keep the pull up off of her during the day. Let her walk around bare, when she feels herself going she or you should put her on the potty. Or give her something to drink, a few minutes lager sit her on the potty and let her play with her favorite toy or watch T.V. until she goes and the make a really big celebration out of it. It worked with my children.