Potty Training??? - Pipe Creek,TX

I really feel for you my daughter did the same thing. It took me until she was three yrs old. I tried everything. I use to keep a small candy bowl on the cabinet full of little candies and toys and would reward only pottying in the potty and let her pick what she wanted . It became easier to get her to go in the toilet. It still took a while but it did help. One thing my mom told me was that they will do it on their own time when their ready.I think she might be right my son was potty trained at 19 months and my daughter at 3 yrs old . Im starting all over again my son is now 10yr and my daughters are 8 yrs and 5 months . Please if you find something that works please let me know. :) Good Luck!

I tried pushing my first to go potty but he took his own sweet time. He was 3 1/2 before he decided to really try it. Once he tried it he got it though. He had one accident and that was it. So for my second one I just let him go at his own pace and he was also 3 1/2 before he got it. He took off running he wanted to stop wearing pull ups the moment that he really got it too. I fought him for one week and kept them on him for bed time but he kept them dry for that whole week. I know that girls are different but they all get there in their own time.

-C.

My daughter was that age when i gave up potty training. I packed the potty away out in the shed and told her no more potty until she tells me she wants to go potty on the potty. a few weeks later i was shopping and cut through the girls underwear dept when she spotted Snow White on a pair of undies. she cried for them but i didn't buy them. i explained to her that those were Big girl panties that go potty on the potty and no longer use a diaper. she cried for those panties for a few weeks and one morning she woke my up saying Mommy me go potty, go get the potty. so I rushed out to the shed and got the potty and she went potty. we then went and got the big girl panties and she loved how they felt. she had one booboo in them and got them wet and she thought that was terrible and that was the only time she wet her big girl panties and never went back to a diaper.
Good luck, but don't pressure your child to go potty.

Be consistant with it. Give her a prize after she goes or make a potty chart everytime she goes she gets to move up on the chart. once at the top of the chart she gets a suprise. hope this helps

I just think you should give her time...She will go when she wants to...You can try to leave her wet for about 2 minutes longer than you usually do...so she can feel that it feels "yucky" to be wet or soiled....My son went until he was 3 years old...He just suddenly started calling my name and he was in the restroom...Hope this helps...

M.

I have 7 kids, some taught themselves, some had to run around in the buff for a few weeks with me running right behind them and asking constantly if they need to go... She'll get it when you least expect it...

All I can tell you is what I did with my 2 year old. I had a 2 week "boot camp" -- no pants, no underwear. I watched her closely, when it looked like she needed to go or began to, I ran her to the potty -- every time. Once she got that down (after about 5 days), I put underwear on her. Nap time and bed time she still wore a diaper. It's been over a month and she goes down for a nap with her underwear and wakes up dry in the morning (though I still put a diaper on her just in case). It's a learning process and I think a typical 3 year old girl does understand, you just have to be persisent and very consistent. Good luck!! I hope my year and a half year old is as easy as my first was :)

Before I had my daughter I was a pre-school teacher with 15 two year olds and potty time was a big deal. I would create a potty chart where they got a sticher each time they went potty. They did not get any prizes from me but parents did sometimes participate in prizes such as going to thier favorite place to eat or getting that toy that they wanted after getting x number of stickers. Something I encouraged my partents to do is let thier child pick out thier own underwear. This helped motivate them to go potty because that meant that they got to wear their new underwear. One other thing that you can try is to make your daugher aware of how many diapers are left in the house. Tell her that once the last diaper is gone you are not going to buy anymore and that if she has an accidnt she will get her pretty panties all dirty. Make her change her clothes each time she has an accidnet. It will take her a big longer and she may get frustrated but she will get tired of having to change her clothes.

I hope some of this helps and good luck....its a tough task

I can relate to how you feel. Our eldest boy had turned 2 and my mom was like potty time!. However Morgan did not want to go or even want to. We wasted many many pull up pants, even thought about just under pants but that was not working either. I got very dicouraged, and kept trying well it was not untill he turned 3 and a half that he first went on is own,now at age for is going many times every day and has only had one accident at school. I think that potty training is something that comes in time, some learn at two some almost four...do not be discouraged just keep on trying. ( Thats what ped doc said also, and it worked!)

My daughter didn't want to go potty either. I tried to push her and my pediatrician told me to wait. When she was ready, she'd let me know. So I backed off. About 3 weeks after she turned 3, she asked to go pee in the potty. She peed in the potty all the time after that. Going poop was another story. She would ask for a pull up to go poop and then back in panties. She had this fear of going poop, which the pediatrician assured me was normal for some children. Again we waiting. A few months later, she did it. At about 3 1/2 she was completely trained. Day and night. She is very bright and did everything else early, but this was one thing she held out on. Some kids take longer and girls are definatley not easier than boys to potty train. Give her time, when she's ready, she'll let you know. Best of luck.