Hi again! I'm potty training my soon to be 3 year old and she's rather reluctant to go potty. Sometimes she'll go willingly, but most of the time when I tell her it's time to go potty, she'll say no and reluctantly make her way to the bathroom. I give her a book to look at while she's on the potty and when she goes I give her a little candy. I even let her flush the toilet after I put the pee in it. Another thing that I can't seem to get her to do is go poo in her potty. She'll go poo in her diaper and then come up to me and tell me that she has pooed in her diaper. She'll also tell me that she has peed in her diaper. How can I get her to poo in her potty and make her more willing to go pee in her potty?
Hey everybody! Here's what happened. First I tried the "bare naked" approach. I took off all her clothes and let her go in her birthday suit. She didn't like it at all. Spent the whole time wailing. So I ended up putting her clothes and diaper back on. Then I went out with her and we picked out some cute big girl panties. Today I tried the "panty method" and it seems to be working. We've had a couple of minor "spills" but I think she's starting to get the idea. She came up to Daddy and said "Pee?" and he escorted her to the potty whereupon she peed! So far so good. Thank you all so much for the advice! :)
Get her a baby doll that pees. Let her love on the doll and then take her and the baby into the bathroom and let her see the baby pee in the potty. It worked in 1 day with my neice. I know each child is different, but worth a try. "Big girls use the potty and get to go places" Bribery!??!?!? Good luck and God bless.
Something that i did with my daughter.... she was potty trained at 2 yrs old. i would put a board on the fridge and everytime she peed she would get a princess sticker. If she pooped she got 2 stickers. Once she had 10 we gave her a prize (i keep small bags of toys in the house for this) she loved the fact that she could do it by her self. also counting the stickers was a plus too. she is going to be 3 in November and she can count to 20 b/c we moved the sticker to 20 b/c she already potty trained. NO diapers for a year.
I say take advantage of the summer warmth and buy her big girl panties and use those to train her during the day rather than using a diaper or a pull up. With it being warm if she has an accident outside she won't freeze to death. Diapers and pull-ups are great conveniences but they still absorb pee enough that the little ones can tolerate it. It seems to me if she doesn't like the feel of it on her with a diaper then she's going to dislike it even more with real panties. Think about it, what did your mother use on you when you were potty training. She used big girl panties. I don't think parents had near as many problems potty training us as we do our own children because of these diapers and pull-ups. My son was potty trained by 26 months and I only used big boy underwear to train him. Night time is a little different. They take a little longer with that. An pooing in the potty is easier if you use real panties. I know I threw at least 10-20 pairs of underwear away training my son because he would poo in them but it's no more expensive buying underwear than it is buying diapers and pull-ups to throw away. Good luck and I hope things start to progress.
Have you tried putting her in big girl underwear? I found that with my son, the diapers are too absorbant and he couldn't feel being wet - it didn't bother him. He's a big fan of the status quo and everything has to be his idea. So i let him pick out his underwear and told him to keep "Lightning McQueen" dry and that he didnt' like to get messy. So of course we had accidents the first day but he finally knew what it was like to feel wet and he did NOT like it. There were accidents and i did ask him about every hour or so if he needed to go. It took a few days, but we've been diaper free (except for bedtime) for several months.
Good luck! just encourage her and let her come to the potty instead of the potty coming at her
don't let her get up until she goes. keep taking her back to it if she gets up.even if she throws a fit, she'll get over it sooner than you think.good luck.
My first son loved potty training, so I thought it would be a breeze with my second son...not the case!
I would ask and even bribe him to sit on the potty and he would NOT do it.
Because I knew he had bladder control I just decided to try the naked route.
I stripped his clothes and diaper (let him run around in his birthday suite) I put the little potty in the middle of the living room. I didn't say a word. Just pretended it wasn't there. While I was on the computer doing email I heard "mom, i peed" I got up and sure enough he went in the potty. Huge praise, m&m's and left him alone again. Sure enough he kept doing it. By the 3rd day I had underwear on him that he could take off. By the end of the week he was in full clothes and going when he needed to. Sometimes the bigger deal we make, the more they resist (at least that was the case with my younger son) Good Luck to you.
My niece was older than 3 and still resisting being potty trained. They bought her some pretty sparkly tinkerbell underwear to wear. She soiled them and her Mom showed her the mess and told her I can't clean these! And threw them in the trash in front of her. She was so upset to lose her pretty panties that it was the last time they had any problems.
