Potty Training - Fort Worth, TX - Mom with 1 kid

I trained my daughter right when she was 2 because I found out I was pregnant with my son and the thought of 2 in diapers scared me. Anyways I explained to her that I was not buying anymore diapers so I just cold turkey gave her a pair of panties now we had accidents but once she learned it was alot easier to go to the potty it didn't take her long she didn't want to be wet or dirty in her panties. They are different when it is a diaper.

GOOD LUCK!

Sometimes they just aren't ready at age two. It will come to her when she is ready. It's good to start introducing them to the potty at 2 yrs, but don't make your expectations too high bc it will just stress you both out.

I'd ease up on the expectation for now. Keep the potties in your bathrooms and let her sit on it when you go and eventually she'll come around.

We did this with both of our girls; our eldest was a breeze to potty train, as there was no training involved. By three she was using the potty exclusively. Our youngest, who will be 2 in February, has tagged along to the potty with her big sister since we've had the little chairs in the bathroom and has recently been using it for real.

It'd be nice to be rid of the diapers by age 2 but I think it's just so much easier on everyone if you just let them do it in their own time, learning over a period of time.

I tried the stickers, even candy and cookies, and everything from DVDS to books. Finally, I took the parent training course at CTAC on how to train using the ABA Positive Practice Potty Training Method. It was invented to use on mentally ill, but it works wonderfully on normal kids too. Some train in a day. Mine took five to see progress, but he is autistic. CTAC stands for Central Texas Austism Center. It was well worth the $20 for the class. It made it a much happier experiance.

put her in the big girl panties anyway, and hide the diapers... out of site out of mind, tell her NO MORE DIAPERS>. after a few times of peeing in her panties,... its not much fun. i'd go that way, also, put her on the toliet after 10-15 minutes after she's ate/drank. so this means no more walking around with a cup all day long. unless she is super stubborn, the being wet part will not be fun for her! that is what my mom did! all four girls, only the youngest had a bladder control issue at night which cleared up by the time she was 4 i think.

My daughter never got into the sticker thing. That wasn't a big enough drive for her either. However, I found a training seat that played music when she went potty in it. My daughter was very encouraged to make the potty play music. This particular potty chair didn't cost much, $10-12 I think, but that was 13 years ago now. In my opinion, it was worth every penny.

Hope this helps!

Believe it or not my daughter just loved the potty DVDs for girls from the local library and really responded to the 'big kid' challenge that they posed. She was singing their songs around the house -"No more diapers for me"!!! It was just one element though that made it a fun challenge for her. The rest we just let her go at her pace. We were told by her pediatrician not to use a regular potty as they don't have that available to them in restaurants, at friends houses etc. So from the get go we just used the regular toilet with the insert which may have helped in that she felt like one of us in her attempts. She was trained by 2yrs 4 mnths from beginning at around 18 months when she showed interest.

Hope that helps a little.

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I am just starting with my daughter who just turned 2 and I know the one thing that you can't do is put pressure on them. I have just been taking her in there once every hour or so to try. We have fun things in there for her to do while she's on the potty, like reading books (they even have potty books that talk about going potty....we have a Dora one and another one and she loves them both....they even have buttons on them that make a flushing sound) and writing on her mini Aquadoodle pages. She gets a sticker when she goes and is starting to catch on. My daughter is very verbal and way ahead of the curve (developmentally, she is at least 36 months verbally according to her pedi), but I have to remind myself that just because she is smart doesn't mean she is going to be potty trained overnight. She has been sitting on the potty for 6 months or so without any real success...she just thought it was fun. Now that we're really focusing on it, she is starting to understand, but it is taking some time. She still doesn't know to tell me when she needs to go and doesn't tell me if she's dirty, so we're going to be working on that, but she is at least starting to recognize what it feels like to go and once she has that awareness down, I think it will continue to help. Sorry I rambled.

The bottom line is that this isn't easy and they have to be interested if it's going to be successful. You can't force them...it will just stress you both out. Just offer incentives and fun things to do while she's sitting there and try to keep her interest up. If she doesn't show any interest, take a break for a month or so and try again.