In Need of Survival Tips for Potty Training

If you're going through that many panties in one day she's just not quite ready yet. Yes, you could keep pushing her to the potty every 20 minutes, but what does that really teach? If you're forcing her to go and it becomes a struggle of wills and ultimately something unpleasant (ie spanking), she's not going to learn anything except that the bathroom is an unhappy place for her to be. It will only set you behind.

2 1/2 is really young so please don't feel that it's a race against some clock or artificial time line. She will learn when she is ready. They all do. It could be next week it could be several months from now. My only advice is not to push her especially if she's having accidents. If she's having that many accidents a day, maybe it's time to take a break and come back to the potty learning when she's maybe a bit more ready.

The only advice I can offer is from what my pediatrician told me. Do not force your child to potty train - let them control when they're ready to potty train. You definitely do not want her to regress. My DS is almost 3 1/2 and is completely potty trained thanks to his care giver during the day. She paid close attention to him when he started going to her to learn his routine. He's been with her for almost three months and hasn't worn a pull-up to or at her house in two months! We only put him to bed in pull-ups and will continue to do so until he wakes up with dry pull-ups.

If she's having accidents at home I would definitely put her back in pull-ups, but continue to take her to the bathroom every time after she eats or drinks, and especially before you leave the house. Tell her to let you know when she feels the need to potty and stay calm.

Tonight I was giving DS a shower before the storms came through, and he told me to stop washing him because he had to go potty. He opened the shower door and walked to the toilet, did his business and came back. :-) I was so proud of him and you'll get there too.

When mine did that i spanked his tushy to show him my displeasure at his disobedience. he learned i meant business and that it was not funny. we rarely had any fights after that. the thing is if she has the fortitude to do correct when not at home, than she has the fortitude to do right at home and chooses not to. that is where the disobedience and defiance comes in. and that would be what she got a swat for. if everytime she fought with you, and everytime she had an accident she got a swat...she would quickly learn to stop and do what you wanted.
Again, i recommend the book, To Train Up a Child by Mike and Debi Pearle.
good luck,
L.

Maybe since she thinks peeing in her panties at home is funny tell her that she will have to go back to pull ups if she continues to pee pee at home.

i am about to start potty training in two months and so scared!

Consistancy consistancy consistancy.

Take her every hour on the hour whether she needs to go or not. When she gets that down, take her every 2 hours...and when she's got that down and she is going on demand (she's telling you she needs to go) then you can try asking her every hour but not taking her.

Give her a special potty book or toy or blanket or sumthin that only she can use while she is on the potty. Use panties and NOT PULLUPS!!! May as well use diapers and diapers are cheaper.

I promise you she will NOT be going to kindergarten in a diaper.

Smiles to you. Good luck!