Potty Trainig

First of all there is NO way to potty train a child in one day no matter how smart or whether they speak in sentences. My daughter has always talked more then other kids in her class, walked earlier, talks in complete sentences and we are going into our 3 rd mth of potty training. Potty training takes time and patience. If you only have her for a week then it will depend on whether her mom is ready to potty train her . Some parents wait longer then others. I originally started to potty train by daughter when she was 18mths old and she would sit and do nothing then we took some time off (until she turned 2yrs old) and now she goes about 50% of the time. She wasn;t ready at that time even though she showed the signs of being ready. Once she was ready she started going on her own. All you can do is get her accustomed to the potty. Take her periodically, sing a potty song and reward her for trying and then reward her for going once she starts. It is a long process and can't been rushed. I would trying using pull ups on her and putting her on the potty every hour. Sing a song and find a way to entertain her so she sits longer and is able to go. My daughter and I have a song I made up and we clapp it encourages her to sit until she actually goes, before she use to sit briefly and would get up and pee within a few minutes. Make it fun. Also, buy a book or movie about potting to help her. Remember you can't do it in a week or a day so her parents need to be on board. I would spend your week enjoying this time with your granddaughter rather then putting her on the potty every few minutes.

Good Morning P. B:
Good Luck on getting your granddaughter potty trained in a day.It may take the whole week that you have her and then some and if your daughter and son do not continue, your efforts could be a waste of time to get her trained.I have three teens 18,16,15 and when I was potty training them it was not easy. today they have dvd's and such tools to help the kiddos train. all I know is that I made a game of it and we stayed in the bathroom all the time it seemed. every hour we went to potty until they actually went....praise was given and then we reduced to two and three hours and finally the kiddos were telling me they had to go, but it did take a while. We still used diapers at bedtime for a while, and may I repeat, it took a while before all three were completely trained with no accidents.Please understand that it is really up to the child, if she is not ready you are going to have a fight on your hands. My oldest son was two, nearly three before he was completely trained and my younger son was trained after his younger sister was trained. I actually trained them together. My youngest son still wet the bed way up until he was around 6yrs and so be careful with training, you may be starting to early, then again you just never know. Experts say, let the kiddos let you know when they are ready. When they are pulling their diapers off and saying I PEEPEE or POOED, then it is time to introduce the potty.I don't know if that helps but good luck and may God Bless you and yours.
C. G.

I potty trained my son by taking him to the potty every 30 minutes then gradually worked the time span up to an hour and so on. I always used real underwear because the pull-up training pants still absorb. The child needs to feel wet and icky to know they don't want it to happen again. I started potty training from 15 months and he is fully capable of going on his own (if only he were tall enough to stand and pee-but I got him a step stool) Stop giving liquids 2 hours before bed time and I sometimes get him up in the middle of the night to pee (since I'm up anyway) I doubt one day of potty training is going to do it, but you said she is smart so best of luck!

2 is too soon to expect anything but pretend. The idea for these days is to let the child lead you. She will get it when it's time and they say not to expect that until she is 2 and 1/2 or more (sometimes not until much later) because she's not cognitively ready until then. You can help the process along by continuing to have her sit and by making it a fun, non-stressful process to go through. We also did a lot of nudie time. There were accidents, but it got the process going quicker because she didn't like to be all wet. Good luck!

On another note, I'd love it if I had a grandma involved with my kids! Good for you and the grandkids, and the parents of the grandkids. My mother has better things to do. It's a shame and her loss because my kids are the best and absolute gifts!!

Hello! Hope you've had a great day! I knew that my son was ready b/c he would come and tell me when he needed a clean diaper and it really bothered him to have a dirty diaper.
So I took the advice of my cousin who has 6 boys!!
I put regular underwear on him and he had a few accidents throughout the day, but by dinnertime he was telling me he had to go use the potty and from then on he has been going on the toilet.
During the day when he had an accident he would come to me and tell me he was all wet. And I told him when the feeling to go to the bathroom came he needed to go sit on the potty and he won't get wet. Its a messy method, but it paid off!! For a few days before that I also would sit him on the potty and read him a potty book. That helped alot. And I would only read it to him while he sat on the potty. I hope I helped you!! The whole process took about a week.
God Bless
K.

hello! i understand your grandchild is an intellect, but potty training is a challenge for ever child. it will not happen until she is ready and it definatly will not happen in a day. if potty training is pushed to soon a load of problems may emerge. for example bed wetting, which will lead to insecurity, which may lead to social problems. please don't rush. she'll get it, just like you did.