My two and a half year old daughter is fully potty trained, loves her panties and has no problem stoppping playing to go potty...never has accidents, is doing amazingly well with potty training...EXCEPT...the morning! We fight every morning about going potty, she HATES going and has full melt downs! I have tried having her go right out of bed and waiting 15-20 minutes to let her wake up...nothing helps! After her meltdown and me having to strip her and place her on the potty she goes fine and happily puts her undies on like nothing happened! Walks away happy and fine! What is that?? I am not a morning person so this is a huge damper on the start of the day, lol.
Any suggestions/advice on how to make the first potty of the day a little less dramatic? Thanks!!
Let it go, if she is potty trained, then she knows she has to go pee. I would leave her alone, and trust that she will not have an accident. Boy, won't that throw her for a loop. Good luck!
hi sweetie, my son WILL NOT go in the morning either. i always tell him - everyone has to go potty in the morning - mommy, our dog, etc. but...it doesn't work. anyway, he wasn't having any accidents so i just dressed him, took him to daycare, and let him potty up there. wasn't worth the hassle. probably not helpful but it curtails fights for us.
i'm not a morning person either girl, i feel ya'! :)
does she have accidents in the morning? if not leave it be...my son doesn't go potty earlier then I would say at most a half hour after he wakes up and he goes all night. Some kids just don't pee right away.
Maybe she isn't a morning person either. Not everyone jumps out of bed and runs to the toilet first thing. If she isn't having accidents it isn't worth the morning meltdown to get her to the potty. If she has an accident in the morning when she has not gone you can explain to her that this is the reason we go right after we get up.
From the sound of your post you've done very well getting her trained.
My son is 3 and does the same thing. He is perfectly potty trained during the day, but he wears a pull-up at night and says the same thing as your daughter when he wakes up. My tactic has been to strip his pull-up off while he's still in bed and half out of it. If I can't do this or if he starts to throw a fit, I just say "OK, I'll meet you downstairs" and let him pee in the pull-up then take it off once he's woken up and into something else. I've found that the more I try to force him to use the potty the more he resists. Attaching rewards to successful potty times seems to help for him -- something as simple as a piece of candy, or using a star chart and letting him pick something from the dollar store after a certain number of starts. Good luck!
It sounds like a power struggle to me , I wonder what would happen if you gently reminded her once and then Let her do it on her own. She may have a few accidents but my guess is they will be uncomfortable and she will make the choice to go to the Bathroom when she has to just like she does all day. Good luck!!
Do you own an iPad? My son's favorite thing is sitting on the potty in the morning with his juice by his side and our iPad in his lap. He looks like a little old man reading the sports page :) We actually have to set the timer so that he doesn't STAY on the potty.
My son was just like this. He was potty trained at 2.5 yo, and it has been about 9 months since then. The first month or so he never wanted to go in the morning, he would sometimes hold it for hours. He never had accidents, but I always tried to make him go (with a huge meltdown ensuing). Finally I just stopped pushing it, and he started going by himself, sometimes still much later in the morning. For a long time after I stopped trying to make him go I would still ask him if he needed to go, but I finally stopped bothering. Maybe she just wants to go on her own time.
My guy (3 in April) has the same issue and I don't know why either, other than he knows he can control when he goes potty and doesn't want me to. But the solution I found was to tell him matter-of-factly if he doesn't go he will have to wear a pull-up. He LOVES his cool underwear so the thought appalls him and he goes right away and acts as if it was his idea ; )
I would probably just live with it, lol. Not great advice I know, but this too
shall pass :)
My daughter sometimes has to go right away, but more often than not, she will wait until after breakfast or after we get to Grandma's house (where she goes while I'm working). This is one of those "pick your battle" moments. Unless she's getting UTI's or something, I'd let it go.
Its a control thing. You suggest it therefore....it wasn't HER idea....which leads to the drama. My daugher was so bad about it that she would sit there holding it on the toilet, saying she didnt have to go, when clearly...she did. We still battle that a little but my 4 year old is mostly over it. Good luck mama... isn't this fun?
