ok i will start from the begining. she is 17 months old. she has been taking off her dipear. i would ask her if she had to go potty and she would go to the bathroom, for about 2-3 weeks. but then she just stoped!!! i dont feel that i was being pushy but wy else would she just stop going? well today she ran out of dipears so i went up to target to get her more. well i normally get the big packs, but today i got a smaller pack and about 20 pairs of underwear. she seemed to like them so i put a pair on her and she walked around for maybe about 15 mins. and peed on the floor. well then i put a dipear on her and a clean pair of underwear over that. was i wrong for doing that? i swear she is showing me signs of her being ready for potty training. well i want to go ahead and thank you for your halp!!
ok no savannah isnt potty trained right now but i just wanted to say how negitive everyone has been. i dont think i've ever heard so many "cants". i said i wasnt pressuing her intogoing. i was just asking for advise on how i could maybe get her started more and to make sure these are the signs.
yesn my daughter was the same way at 17 mnths. and i think your daughter showing that she wants to go so i would just ask her every so often if she needs to go or the other thing i did is just encourage them even if they have an accident and good luck and i think shell be going on her own.. after all that
My daughter did the same thing at 18 months. She was very interested in the pottly...then just stopped and refused to look at it.
I didn't push it. Every-so-often I would try to introduce the potty to her and she would still resist.
She was potty-trained a couple of months before her 3rd birthday.
Don't try to rush things.
Good luck.
Hello to a fellow lakewood person:)
I think I probably have a different take on potty training than you do but I figured I would share my opinion anyways. I don't believe in pushing too young. Her verbal skills probably aren't where she can tell you she has to go and that could be a problem. There is definitly no harm in trying but if you truly want to potty train her I would go cold turkey into the underware....let her pee and poop herself and learn. You will have more work to do if this is what you want though. I waited till my son was 2 1/2 and went cold turkey into underware...after teaching him for about a month with pull ups. He is fully potty trained after about 2 weeks with minor accidents.
Good luck
Like I said before, my daughter showed all the "signs" for a good year until she was finally emotionally and physically ready for serious potty training. She would start and stop using the potty from about 18 months until she was fully trained at two years nine months. I would back off. She is very young! The interest she is showing is great, and you should definitely encourage her--I just think it is too early to expect her to understand consistent potty use, and she is probably not physically ready to be expected to hold it until she gets to the potty every time. My advice is to just enjoy her being little. There will be plenty of time for potty training in the future. I think the best time to start underwear is around 2.5 when they understand using the potty, have the muscle control to hold it, and can be motivated with things like sticker charts and prizes--which also gives them a sense of pride as a motivator. Good luck.
I responded to your last post and this clarifies what I said in that response--as you are finding out, it may be POSSIBLE to potty train a 17 mth old but it's not going to be EASY. Several people said they trained their young child, so I'm definitely not saying it can't be done, but believe me it will be more work for you than if you wait. Exactly what you are experiencing! My 2 yo seemed trained and then started having accidents again. The only thing that worked was giving her a tic tac every time she made it to the potty--but again, at 17 mo they are much less able to control their bodies and understand about the reward, so I don't know if it will work then.
One thing the doctor told me is not to "waffle," in other words, once you decide she's ready dont' put a diaper on her again ever. Don't keep going back and forth. It will be messy!
If I were you I'd just wait!
Blessings,
Lynn
