When my daughter turned too bout a month or 2 after i had her going potty good. She had a potty chair but it was one that would sit on the big potty and the big part was a stool so she could get up there. she wanted that more than sitting on hers so I let her do that. For 2 weeks she was going good. every day it was good. Then all of a sudden she quit, and hasnt done it since. she's 2 1/2 now well she was in oct. I've tried bribery everything i can think of. anybody got any suggestions.
If possible let her run around naked or in panties. After a few times of wetting herself she may discover that she does not like the feeling and start going to the potty. Also you could try getting her some special panties and tell her that she can wear them as long as she keeps them dry.
OH POTTY training how fun.I went through the same thing with my son who is 3 now,he is very smart and di everything at an early age but he would not use the potty.When my husband and I ask him about it he said he didnt want to go potty because he wouldnt be the baby anymore.We explained to him he would always be our baby.But what really helped was we got underware with things he liked on them and told him that say Batman,are Superman all his favs like that used the big boy potty and it took him 2 days and he was going to the potty all the time.It takes longer for some kids,just dont give up and it will all work out.hope it goes good for u and her.
B.,
2 1/2 years old is a good time to try potty training. Just remember, it takes time and patience. She has been depending on diapers all her life. It's kind of hard to give up the easy road. lol She will come around. Sometimes it takes a little longer than others. But when she does good, reward her with a treat of some kind. Of course not always sugary sweet, but a treat to let her know how proud you are.
She's still pretty young so I'd say just back off for a little while and see what happens. Do you have her in pullups? If so, maybe switch to big girl underpants so she maybe wont' want to be wet.
Does she spend anytime around younger children who arent potty trained? If so then she could be back tracking b/c of that reason, my son will copy other children like my younger nephew or other children he plays with after only being around them a day. If not then she probably wasnt ready and you should try maybe praticing with her with a baby doll or a stuffed animal to get her interested again. My son back tracked and I bought him a potty seat that went over ours and told him we'd make his stuffed animals go potty after he did. Now he's three and potty trained fully.
I have always heard that the more you try to get them to potty in the potty that the less they will. Something about feeling the pressure. I would back off some..
I would just ask her every once in a while hey do you want to use the potty again. Maybe you can be at Walmart or somewhere and go down the aisle that has the potties and look at them and say o loook.. Allow her to pick one out. She might just do it.
When i trained my now 11 year old, i tried everything, i mean everything we finally got it to work like this... go ahead and laugh
At that time Toy Story was really popular and he loved Woody so he had a Woody doll. I finally got a pair of underware and put them on Woody and put one of my hair bands around it to keep them up. And for a day or two i would say o my goodness woody needs to potty and i would actually hold the toy over the potty. lol.. .Finally on like day 3 i said comeon woody and Daniel came to. They both used the potty. One for real and the other not so real lol.. He still had some accidents for a while, but he tried his best to make it. You can do miracles with their favorite toys. Try that.
Good luck
B.,
you have to have plenty of patience. I potty trianed my 2 year old and it seemed like forever. I started with pull ups but found out quickly that they were useless. I have decided to buy her some pretty panties and she loves s=them... I would tell her it time to peepee, and she would run toher potty... I was told to commmit a full weekend to potty training and she would be potty trained with little or no accidents.. I promise it worked.. I committed full fri, sat, and sun...litterally in the bathroom ever hour on the hour with plenty of drinks in between and she was potty trained...That was easy for me beuse I dont work outside of the home..so try it, its hard becsue you better have about 200 pair of panties available(LOL) but it worked for me....and she was 3 in Oct.. but I started in July...
My daughter didn't care if she was wet in pull-ups or panties, so it took a long time for us, but I think I started too early before she was ready (right after she turned two). But what worked for us is that she loved falling asleep in my bed at night so she could watch a movie. So I told her one morning that if she didn't have any accidents, she could go into mommy's bed at night to fall asleep, but if she had any accidents at all she would have to go to sleep in her room. I wasn't sure if she would actually understand that, but it worked. She did real well for a couple weeks, and then had an accident (it's going to happen no matter how well she's doing) and I put her in her room and explained to her that she has another chance to try again tomorrow. She's doing great now (3 next week), and I still stick to this method (but I don't mind moving her once I head to bed...I get an extra snuggle in there). Good luck!
