Potty Training an Almost 3 Year Old Girl

Updated on April 10, 2008
A.B. asks from Wrightwood, CA
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I have tried potty training my little girl for the past few months. She is not really interested in going potty on the toilet. I bought the potty training in one day book, and tried the whole "potty party" idea. In the morning, she unwrapped her potty doll, tossed it aside and didn't care about the doll. She does not want to wear panties only her pull up, which I think is my first mistake. Some days she will go to the potty and other days, I have no luck. Any suggestions would be helpful. I know she will not graduate from high school still in diapers but it is frustrating. I did have another baby in July.

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M.H.

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You can throw away (or hide) the pull-ups and tell her they are all gone and she has to wear panties. Put the potty out in the living room where you spend most of your time. Make her sit on it every hour for as long as you can make her sit there. When she goes reward her with a sticker or something she really likes. When I decided to potty train my daughter, I let her run around in a shirt and panties. That way when she went in her panties she became aware of the feeling and didn't like being wet or having poop in her panties. It's kinda messy but it works. If I put her in a pull-up she could tell the difference and would go in her pull-up without consequence. It took about 2 weeks and she was potty trained by the time she turned two.

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R.S.

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I was lucky because my daughter went to a home daycare so she saw the older kids go and get rewarded with an M&M each time they went until it became a habit, so she was shown by example.

However, once she had it nailed at daycare, she wouldn't go at home. So I wrapped about 15 little presents and put them in a basket in the bathroom and told her she could open a small one each time she peed, and a big one each time she pooped. Keep in mind that these presents were things like a new hairclip, a cheap bracelet, a bottle of bubbles, a sheet of stickers, one of her plastic spoons so she could pick out a fruit cup to eat for dessert (or pudding if she pooped). Small inexpensive things.

We also did a quick silly potty dance each time she flushed and washed her hands without being reminded, and she eventually forgot about the prizes and wanted to do the dance.

I know this may not work, but I just thought I'd share what I did with my daughter.

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J.P.

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My daughter Cassandra went through the same thing before she turned 3. Her Pediatrician gave me a book about potty training in a day. What you do is put the potty chair in the family room (or wherever your daughter stays in the house most of the time), make a fun Calendar, get some stickers and small treats (candies, crackers, etc). First show her step by step on what exactly she needs to do when she has to go potty. After showing what is needed for her to do, make her do it on her own. Everytime she does it on her own, she gets a treat and she gets to put a happy face sticker on the calendar. It worked really well w/ my daughter and didn't take long for her to get use to the new routine.
Goodluck!

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S.F.

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The baby may be the reason she is not interested in potty training. My daughter was almost three years old when my son was born, and she was not quite potty trained. She goes to daycare and the teachers told me not to push the potty training until she got used to the new baby. about six months after he was born, we tried it again with success, but at 4 and a half, she still needs a pullup at night. I know it's tough to have two in diapers, but sometimes I almost wish for it now when we are in public and she needs to go potty and I have no one to help me juggle the two kids in the restroom.
My advice is not to push it too much; try praising her for being a big girl in other areas for a while, and then revisit the potty training in a few months.

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