Pooping on the Potty - Ballston Lake,NY

With my daughter and son I create them a potty chart and hung it up in the bathroom. I took them to a scrapbooking store to pick out small and large stickers. Everything time they peed they would get to put a small sticker on the chart and then they pooped they were able to put a big sticker. I would also give them 1 m&m for peeing and 2 m&m's for pooping. If they went all week without an accident they would get a surprise, like a new book, coloring book. I went to the dollar store and bought a few cheap toys to give for a prize also. They loved it and it worked. I made the chart for 2 weeks.

I'm having the same struggle as you with my son...it will come in time. My son runs around when he poops so he wont sit on the potty for #2. I grew up with the book "Once Upon A Potty." It comes in a girl version and a boy version. I love that book...highly recommend it! Just be prepared to say "...and sat and sat and sat...." over and over!!!

This all sounds like normal behavior to me. My daughter took quite awhile to get comfortable pooping on the potty. We talked a lot about EVERYONE she knows and how they poop on the potty. ("Daddy poops on potty, grandma, poppy, big cousing, friends, etc.). Also, she would watch us, and her older cousin, as well as other kids at daycare. She did get over the hump, but it was a stressful thing for her. Now she is fine- keep u what you are doing, your little one will get the hang of it!

Two year olds are usually so busy and active that they don't often realize the signs of having to go to the bathroom. That is probably why you are having to remind her. I have never met a lazy two year old in my life, just distracted two year olds. Try and see through her eyes. Would you want to stop playing with your toys to go to the bathroom when you could easily go in your diaper? Toys and playing are way more important to a two year old than the potty is.

You could try using a Potty Watch. It's alarm goes off at regular intervals to remind the child to go and try and use the potty. I have friends who swear by this watch.
My whole family's rule of thumb about readiness for the potty is a dry diaper in the morning. If your child can make it through the night with a dry diaper then he/she is really ready to start using the potty.

Also, many kids don't initially poop in the potty. Pooping often becomes a private moment for many toddlers (mine hides in my room to go) and having someone watching them on the potty may give them a little stage fright.
You are doing a great job and don't worry too much she will eventually get there.