Potty Training - Dupo, IL

my daughter will be 2 in september and she does the same thing!! I have read books about it and all they say is to be patient!!!! Take her to the potty when she first gets up and before a bath and before bed...she probably wont go, but it helps her get a routine,one day she will.At least that is what I have read to do, we just started yesterday.Good luck :)

We are going through the same thing right now. My son just turned two on Friday, and he would tell us that he was wet or that his diaper was dirty. And sometimes if he is dirty he will start to take his diaper off by himself. However, when we sit him on his potty he doesn't do anything.
When I was trying to potty train my daughter, my Mom kept telling me "She will do it when she is ready." And no matter how tired I was of hearing that - she was right. About a month before her third birthday, she told us "I don't want to wear diapers, I was to wear underwear." - and that was it. She had a few accidents now and then, but she was ready.
So my advice would be, don't rush it. It's good practice for them to get in the habit of sitting and trying, and then of course positive reinforcement is always good. Best of luck, and know that we are going through the same things. Let me know
how things turn out.
J.

My situation is a lil different because I have a boy and according to everyone I know they say boys basically don't care if they are sitting in poop but I go to a parent care and share group and the instructor said the best way to teach them is to put them in regular underwear because sometimes with diapers they don't feel like they are wet or do a pull up/underwear combo. That would be my best suggestion. Hopefully it helps you out. Good Luck!

We started PT our son when he was 21 months old. It's been a month and he is doing great. He would do the same thing your daughter is doing. I just let him run around half naked while I was home with him and kept the potty chair in whatever room we were in. He caught on quickly and did not want to have accidents since we rewarded him with m&m's or stickers when he went in the potty. We also put away all diapers and f he ever found one (in my bag or something) we would walk him to the trash and tell him to throw it away since he is a big boy now and doesn't need icky diapers. We use pull-ups. The first couple of days he would not go #2 in the potty. He would wait until night time to go in his pull-up until I actually dumped the #2 from the pull-up into his potty and said "it's okay to go poop in here too." That's all it took! He only has pee accidents about once a week when we are out somewhere and he is distracted but that's it. Oh and he doesn't talk much yet but it's not difficult to understand the "potty dance." Good luck and don't get frustrated. Make it fun and push the "big kid" honor!

HI D.! I had the same experience when my oldest was a little more than 2. We kept on the consistency of putting her on the potty plus we just made her wear panties and watched how much juice or water she was drinking. We asked her consistantly if she had to go potty and about every 1/2 hour we went and sat on the potty to see if she actually had to go. We did this for 2 days and she started going on her own. I think what worked is just putting her in panties and not giving her the option of wearing a diaper (except naps and bed time). When she went to the potty she got lots of praise and stickers! The key is though is to be very very consistant on asking her if she has to go

There is a big difference between knowing when you have already gone potty and knowing when you have to go to the potty. My daughter is 10 now but I remember when she was being potty trained. She did the same thing. She wanted to be a big girl and would even take off her diaper and squat on the living room floor. I would run her back to her potty chair. She had no desire to use the potty chair. I made myself crazy trying to get her potty trained. Experts now say you shouldn't even try until 3 years old. So once I took a step back, and stopped pushing her. (I said to myself that she is not going to graduate high school in diapers. She will eventually get it.) She potty trained herself when she was ready. When I let her do it on her own time it was much less stress for both of us. So don't push just let it happen. Now I have a 21 month old boy. He is showing interest in the potty. He likes to watch us go to the bathroom. He knows when he needs to be changed. So we bought a new potty chair and sat it in the bathroom. He sits on it with his clothes on everytime we go to the bathroom. He knows it is there if he ever wants it but I'm going to let him do it on his own. He has asked me to take off his clothes a couple of times but when I do that he won't sit back down. So just let her make up her mind to do it and she eventually will.

My sister in law just potty trained her 20 month old daughter. She would have trouble making it to the bathroom on time, so my SIL simply let her run around the house naked for a few days and within a week she was going in the bathroom. hope that helps!

I have a 3 1/2 year old little girl she is potty trained. She even sleeps through the night without a diaper or pull ups on. It was easy I would just put her on her own potty next to me when I went to the bathroom. We would just sit there and read a book and eventually she would go potty. Then she would start going on her own. I also bought her own toilet paper, toilet paper holder that she could reach and those kandoos flushable wet wipes. I also had an extra bathroom that I made hers. I let her decorate it. By doing that she always wanted to go. Also they make a portable folding potty topper at Toys R Us that fits great on top of big potties. My daughter was also afraid of the auto flush potties just remember to put your finger on the sensor so it doesn't flush it scares the kids sometimes.

Hello! We just went through potty training with my youngest daughter. She turned 3 in March. What we did with her is let her know that once the last package of diapers were used up then we would not be buying any more because they were just too expensive. It took about a week, and we reminded her every time we had to put one on her. Unfortunately for us, we just happened to run out at 10 p.m. And I was not going to run out in the middle of the night for diapers. So we told her that it was just time now and that we had been warning her the time would come. We put a protective pad on her bed for the night. Of course she went a little in the morning because she had forgotten she did not have her diaper on. We had just checked her when we got up and she was dry. So we reminded her and jut put underwear on her for the day. We were staying in for the day. Each hour I took her into the bathroom and asked if there was a need to go on the potty. I extended the time a little longer the next day....but definately about 15 mins after eating or drinking anything. She was not happy to hear there were no diapers and cried too. However, my husband and I encouraged her that she was a big girl now and that she could do it!!!! We had tried all of the encentives and special times yet nothing had worked. We basically said this is the time and prepared her for it verbally. This doesn't work for all parents though. My first daughter got potty trained because we just said we were done and just happended to be going out of town two hours away for vacation. So we had to stop alot at gas stations, but she did not go potty in her car seat at all during the 4 days of vacation nor at night. And that's how we potty trained her. Good luck with your efforts.....I hope it works out for you! Sincerely, T.