Teaching Potty Trainign to a 2 1/2 Year Old Girl

I had a very hard time potty training my little girl. I would just keep asking her if she had to go potty. At first it was like every 30 minutes and then every hour and so on. I also made a little poster board that she got to put a sticker on when she went potty, picked up toys, ate all her vegetables on her plate, used her manners. She thought it was the coolest thing ever and it was very inexpensive. I just went to a dollar store and bought cute little stickers and let her picked out.
She was almost 3 when she was finally potty trained during the day. She started preschool and I told her that she had to ask the teacher to go potty and she did. It was like night and day. She still wears a pull up to bed and that is half my fault because I let her have a drink before she goes to bed.
Good luck I always said that this is the worst part of parenting!!

when your daughter is ready it will be easy, I wouldnt suggest pushing and you can always ask her whether she wants to wear underwear today or a diaper. When she finally says "I want underwear today" you'll be surprised to see how she can make it to the potty with no accidents, as long as she feels like it is her choice to do so.

My daughter was potty trained at 2 and 5 months - she happened to get it easily - what I did was get a potty seat that sits on the toilet...this way she felt like she was doing it like mommy...we kept books in a basket in all the bathrooms...and every so often I would put her on the potty and read and sure enough she would go - if she did she got a "prize" a skittle or a jelly bean.....we also made a little chart (basically a piece of paper with a picture of a potty!) and she got to put a sticker on it everytime she went......I never did the pull-up thing just because I felt it was another crutch - it felt like a diaper....she only wore them at night....I did make it clear that diapers were no longer in the house for her....but if she did wet her underwear it was "okay", and just reinforced that when she thinks she has to make "peepee" to go sit on the potty.......I also got little plastic stools (come in a two pack at Target) and put them in two bathrooms so she could get up . I bought some toilet toppers and everytime we got to a store I would bring her to the bathroom......she then thought it was fun checking out other bathrooms.....be patient, some kids are notready till they are 3 or so....my daughter also goes to a mini preschool program twice a week...and some of her classmates are older (her bday is in Sept.) and they were using the potty so she wanted to do it too....Good luck!

First of all, most kids don't go from diapers one day to underwear the next. Potty training is a process. The best thing you can do is not pressure her. Talk about it. Read books about it. Ask her if she wants to go. Let her sit on the little potty (fully clothed if that's all she'll do) when you go. Then let her listen and see what you did when you're done. Tell her when she's a big girl she'll do it that way too.

We started this process with my daughter when she was 16 months because I saw her crouching in the corner of the dining room and when I asked her what she was doing she said "poo-poo". I figured if she knows when she's doing it, she can learn to recognize how it feels before it happens. By 26 months (yes, 10 months later) she was making #2 on the potty all the time and by 29 months she was in panties all day. There were times throughout the 8 months that I thought she had it but regressed. That's part of the process. Just be patient, encouraging and don't make a big deal when she has an accident. Clean it up, let her know that she should tell you next time so she can go on the potty, give her a big hug and start over.

We kept my daughter in pullups at night until she was almost three. I really don't understand the resistence to pull ups. I found they worked just as well and were thinner, lighter and more comfortable than diapers. As soon as she was big enough to fit in the smallest size pullup we switched. But anyway, I just refused to convert her crib to a bed. I felt better knowing she was safe in her crib but felt bad putting her in underwear knowing she couldn't get up on her own to get to the potty. As soon as we converted the bed we swtiched to panties at night and over the course of the next 6 months she had maybe four "accidents" - mostly caused by drinking too much before bed. She was ready and had been staying dry most nights for a while.

Take your time. Talk about it and help her understand the process. Let her know it's up to her. She's going to have accidents. Just relax. She'll get it.

My daughter is 2 and 2 months. We realized she was ready to be potty trained because she would always as us to go to the potty. So what we did was we took her to the store so she could pick out the potty she wanted and the pull-ups she wanted (either Dora or Princess) and we are leaving it up to her. When she wakes up she is put into a pull-up and if she asks to go we go. I dont push her at all. There are days that she doesnt ask at all and there are days that she asks atleast 50 times. Shes still little (and was a premie) so I am letting her control the situation. I am not so sure that this is the best way to go about potty training but its working so far.

Good Luck!