Potty Training - Topeka,KS

They have those sticker charts with the day of the week that you can put little stickers on. With my daughter we started out with just the verbal praise which she is a big fan of. When she started getting better, I took her to the store to show her some big girl Dora panties. I told her if she kept up the good job, I'd buy her the panties. About 2 weeks later that's what we did and she was potty trained right at age 2. The youngest one in her class and the first one going potty. She was so proud. Good luck!

It is a very good thing that your daughter show sign that she want to try potty. Apply what you did to the oldest one if you can still remember? (it will get back with you eventually if you forgot). Thanks to our library resource. My daughter will turn 2 in another month and she already potty trained. I thought she might be a little late than her big sister but they both are trained around same ages which was 21-22 months old.

What I did was to put the potty where it is easy for her to see and to sit on while she can play and does other things. The purpose is to help her to feel comfortable with it. (At this time try not to force her). Then I get a doll that has a hole in the mouth and another hole "downthere",take off the doll's cloths, use something to drop water to the doll's mouth, press the doll's tummy, let her see water come out of the doll's bottom. While doing it, you talk to the doll and say "Good job! you did it! you want to go pee-pee again, repeat the process (Don't laugh) Wait a few more days then encourage her to sit on her potty and ask :"You want to go. Let's try!" I make a very big deal when she sucess her first try, you know that she got sticker, kiss, and I keep telling her that she now big kid, good bye diapers, I am so proud of her. Hope this work for you too.

Both my girl friend and I went straight to underwear when ours were ready. My daughter was 19 months so it took about 5 days to complete, including nights and my girl friends son was 3 and it took only 3 days for daytime and about 5 for nights. The kicker is that you need to stay with them the entire time and remind them to let you know when they have to go, get them to the potty and reward them for using the toilet, even if they only finished there. After seeing this work for me and a couple of my friends I wouldn't recommend using pull-ups at all. I have another friend who used pull ups to train and it took months before she could finally go to underwear. Have fun!!

First I would be sure she really is ready and then start and don't stop. No pull ups. I have potty trained my 8 kids and one grandson and when I started out years ago there were no pull ups and it just worked so much better than people who try to use pull ups. Get your daughter some pretty little panties and use them and if she likes stickers you could use them, or I took some of mine to pick a special little gift after they were trained and it was so amazing the simple little thing they picked. She is still a bit young maybe to wait for a reward shoppping but if she's able to understand that it might work. I also bought a potty by Fisher Price for my grandson that helped him because it played a song every time he went and he loved that, sort of like his reward after he didn't seem to need a small marshmallow after going. He preferred the music. I can still hear it!! It took one day for most of the kids and for my grandson so hope it goes well for you. It's my least favorite thing to do as a mother/grandmother I think. And sometimes just a hug, clap, cheering is all that's needed for the reward. You know your daughter and maybe that would even work. I would recommend that Fisher Price potty with music for anyone too.

Stickers are working for us and lots of praise. My daughter will be two on April 28th, and she's well along on potty training. For a long time, I have let her see me "potty" and let her flush the toilet. She has Elmo & Pooh potty seats in each of our bathrooms. I got a chart from Pampers that came with Dora stickers which I have put on the bathroom wall. Mostly praise has worked and seeing the older children at her daycare is always inspirational. Sounds like she's giving you signs. Just keep asking her every hour if she needs to go potty. I set a timer for myself so I don't forget to ask her.

I have two girls ages 8 and 10 and when I potty trained them it was with pretty underwear. If they stayed dry and pooped in the potty all week, on Saturday we went shopping for a pack of pretty underwear that they got to pick out. By the time they were done training, we had a ton of pretty stuff and they had fun and potty training was easy. It really only took a week to train them but I did it for about a month because they were having so much fun. Get a calendar and some stickers since she probably can not count but she can tell when the days are filled in and you point to Saturday and say this is the day we go shopping. Have fun!

I'm not much of a reward/punishment person. With my oldest daughter, instead of giving her something if she pottied, I bought some new fun things (mostly from the $ store) that she could only play with on the potty. It made the potty a fun thing and she was more interested in going there than if she had to stop her play and just sit. My younger one, we sort of did that, but mostly she just wanted to be like her big sister and it happened all on her own. I second (or third or forth, whatever the case may be) the underwear. Once I decided it was time (and you know when it is) both of them were in underwear the whole time except for night. Don't expect too much at night, I think that varies much more on when they'll be ready. My oldest was potty trained before 19 months but didn't go all night until she was 4, but my youngest was potty trained at 22 months and was in undies at night by 2 years. I think that really varies. Good luck, it sounds like your girl is ready and willing.

K.

Good Morning T.!! Awesome you think she is ready and has already been practicing. Since you said she doesn't have a fav. sweet don't offer any! How about just a silly Happy Dance, with a lot of hand clapping and WOW what a big girl you are.
Get a small Dry erase board at a $$ Store and put it close to the bathroom. When she goes like a big girl put a big smiley face on it each time for that day she is a big girl. We did this for Corbin and he was so excited to get another Smiley on his board. The first time he pooped in the potty his daddy (my son) got him a little john deere tractor toy.
That can back fire on you though, as he thought each time he pooped he got another toy. NOT!!

You could take her and let her help pick out some Big Girl pretty panties, when she can make it several days without to many accidents.

Hope something realy fun works for you and you have a well trained little Princess soon.
I'm not looking forward to starting potty training with our Youngest Gr son Zane anytime soon. He has a temper that won't quit!!! I know we are gonna have a battle royal.
Would be Awesome if the little guy just Surprised his nana and did a great job of it. Won't hold my breath though..:))

God Bless and have a Wonderful Easter SONday
K. Nana of 5

Hi T.! My daughter will be 2 in May and we started her training 3 weeks ago. I haven't done any food reward. What we do is sing a silly little song that I made up about pee pee in the potty that I sing during the sitting on the toilet and then when she is finished I sing is again and say Yeah at the end and do high fives. She then flushes the toilet and closes the lid. Hope this helps.

The sticker thing worked great with my son (for peeing) he still wont poop on the potty daily. Sorry its the only thing I have. Im still trying to do things to get my son to poop on the potty daily instead of in his pants.

Hi T.!
I'm sorry that I don't have any reward ideas. With my 2 boys the oldest chose to wear underware & we never looked back & my youngest could out wet any & all diapers so we chose to train him. With both of our boys we went 'cold turkey' by just putting them in underware.

God bless!