Potty Training - Dayton,OH

My daughter is 16 months old and is just starting to talk. ONe of her words in the vocabulary is 'potty' because of dogs(we tell the dogs to go outside to go potty'. I plan on using the reward method and give her a sticker for every time she uses the potty. She will get a little smiley face sticker of her choice when she pee's and then she will get a sparkley sticker when she poops. When she gets 5 sparkly stickers, I plan on giving her a special gift (whether that is a new cheap toy or small bag of M&M's) My daughter seems to be obsessed with shoes (like her mommy :)) so i have a feeling this potty training might be spendy for me. :):)
Good luck and that is AWESOME that she is starting already. my nephews did not even start til they were closer to 3.

I am currently training my 2.5 year old son and you start off my taking them every 20-30 minutes so they can get use to the sensation of going pee in the potty. They won't necessarily ask right away because they don't always know the urge. I am expecting in June so I wanted to get him trained before then and just started on a whim this past week and he has done GREAT! We now go every hour or so because he is not really asking, but he has held his bladder everytime we have gone potty. We go out on errands and he does fine, but I still take him every 45-60 minutes and we haven't had any accidents. We are still trying to poop on potty for first time, he hasn't quite accomplished that yet! Naptime and bedtime, he still wears a diaper, because that may take longer to learn. Give her some books to read while she is on it or read to her to keep her entertained while she gets use to what she is supposed to do on there. Reward her everytime she goes with a star on a chart or an m&m or jelly bean and be consistent. By taking her every half hour, she is learning the process! Good luck!

Best to sit her on the potty for a few minutes at a time (no longer than 10 minutes unless she is okay with sitting longer). You may read a story or play a game like the Itsy Bitsy Spider with her to pass the time. Choose times that she would normally be wet or has a bowel movement in her diaper (i.e., first thing in the morning, after naptime, after meals). When you are out of the house running errands or shopping, have her try pottying whenever you go to the bathroom (if you are not too squeamish about public toilets). This gets her in the habit of knowing when it's time to go and she should not resist when told it's time to go potty! Most important, don't stress about it and be very patient! God Bless!

She seems like she knows what to do, so I'd let her run around naked from the waist down when she's around the house. When she has an accident, tell her "no, that goes on the potty." Then take her and sit her on the potty. If she doesn't seem to progress from there, start setting a timer for every 20 or 30 minutes and when it rings tell her the potty bell went off and it's time to try potty. Also, I'd give her TONS to drink. This will help give her opportunities to go and make it less concentrated (less smell, staining when cleaning up). Good luck!

Continue to make a big deal of it when she uses the potty i found with my daughter i took linger for her to realise she had to poo in her potty too. Dont worry about it too much they all get it in their own time it sounds like she is making a great start ahe is only 2 after all.

My little girl was very interested in potty training early as well. Because she was so young, we had to kind of take the reins on it. Every 30-40 minutes we would take her to the potty to give her the chance to go. Then stretch it to 40-50. Then an hour. Now it's every 2 hours or so she'll go. Once she's pretty much stopped having accidents during the awake hours, I'd let her pick out her own special big girl undies. Make a fuss over them. My dd picked out Dora undies. We explained to her that we don't want to mess up her new super awesome undies with poop & pee so we HAVE to go in the potty. She does pretty stinking good. Maybe (maybe) one accident a day. Then we do pull ups at night.

Good luck Mommy & I hope this helped!