Potty Training - Waco,TX

try giving her small rewards after about a week of no accidents and then every two and so on.. It broke my little girl from bed wetting. Hope this helps. M.

Potty training just takes a lot of patience sometimes. I could tell my first child was ready to start training when she was 2 but I was breastfeeding her little sister so I made her wait. Then when my husband went to IRAQ and we stayed with my sister-in-law and my little girl saw her cousin who is only a month younger than she is going to the potty, she just decided to start going and I never had to train her. But she did have a lot of accidents up until she was in her second semester of kindergarten (5 yrs old almost 6). Then one day my little girl asked me to not send her to school with pants that had a snap, buttons, or zipper anymore because she realized she always had accidents when she had to mess with those. Since I've put my little girl in nothing but a dress or pants with an elastic waist, she has not had any other accidents except at night. There is a chance that when you go back to school and your little girl goes to day care and sees everyone else using the potty, she'll start going herself, but you have to be patient.

She is just exercising her independence a little and trying to see what you are going to do about it. My daughter goes through this on occasion with potty training ever since she took intrest in it at 2. Unlike my son who decided one day to be potty trained (mind you that wasn't until he was 3 1/2).

For her sometimes it is pretty cool to be a big girl and go potty in the toilet, especially if mom gives her a lot of attention about it. On other days when you may not be paying as close attention to her potty training she decides to try to get some attention to it by not going. She also might just be thinking it might not be so fun being a "big girl" too.

Either way, just keep praising her when she does use the potty (ALOT of PRAISE) and DO NOT make a big deal about having accidents. If she has an accident tell her, "you had an accident, that's ok, let's go get cleaned up" and leave it at that. Don't scold, don't act disappointed, just act like it isn't a big deal. She will soon catch on and realize accidents get her less attention than when she actually goes in the toilet.

Then again she will likely repeat the behavior when she is needing a little extra attention from you or you start relaxing a bit on the praise. Multiple accidents and not just occasional ones could mean she needs more attention, just give it to her in other ways like taking time out for just you and her while your husband takes the baby. Play a game or something.

Don't forget to look out for UTI's as well, they are common in potty training girls since they don't have the best hygiene. This could look like frequent accidents, discolored urine (brown, orange, red) or even foul smelling urine (skunk or barnyard), fever, painful urination or hesitancy to use the bathroom. So, always beware of that too.

Good Luck L.!

My advice and experience with 2 boys is that you can train yourself to ask them but only when they are truly ready can they be trained.

well hey
i am 22 also,i have 2 kids of my own. i just got my lil girl who is 2 1/2 in panties. i tried for a long time since she was 1 1/2. i was told it takes time and they will let u know when they are ready. i no my lil girl has been on panties now for about 2 months since then she may have wet them about or over 12 times now but she didnt give up she loves that potty. just take her every 30 to 20 min to the potty and if she wants her pamper on tell her no or reward her with candy or what she wants that what i did . dont worry u are not a lone. just hang on and she will do it. a nother thing at nights dont put a pamper on her or it will confuse her i know because that what happend to my lil one . make it like a game to her let her know that it is fun not scarry. or if u dont want to give her things reward her with praise such as good girl , what a big girl i am so proud of u. i hope this helps u .

My daughter is 2 1/2 and except for nighttime, is now fully potty trained. But it's taken us a couple of months. Like your dtr, some days she would go and some days I did a lot of laundry. Especially with bowel movements! But when she'd have accidents I'd just remind her to try for the potty next time. It's taken a while but I've noticed that just in the last couple of weeks she heads straight for the bathroom all own her own. It's difficult, especially when you wnat to go somewhere (mine peed in a full shopping cart at the grocery store once) but it'll happen. Hang in there.

Hey L.

I'm 38, mother of 3 boys..each one was different, my oldest just took me the weekend, middle one took me 3 mths and my little one which is 2yrs have not started yet..my trick was finding out what they loved to see mommy do, act silly. Party hats, with horns and the poppers that look like wine bottles. every time he went we had a 3 min party of mommy cheering and acting silly he loved it and when you get dad involved or his favorite aunt, uncle or whomever he admires the most get them to go the fun and make a potty train..it has worked and the kids love it..and also buy the movie "Once upon a Potty" they have one for boys and girls watch it with him..when she doesnt make it to the potty just make a sad face because you cant use your horn or pop the poppers.. good luck , and stay with the routine, if you break the routine then she will think its okay to break hers. just until she gets going, accidents will happen

I use to bribe my son with his favorite candy. I would tell him that if he went potty in the toilet, that I would give him some candy. Every couple of hours I would take him to the bathroom, sit him on the potty and I would stand there with the candy and tell him if he goes in the potty he can have the candy. It worked for him! Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes.

T.

My son is seven and we had alot of luck with rewarding him and we set a timer...LOL I know this sounds odd but it really worked. We would set a kitchen timer for every thirty minuites. When the timer would go off he had to at least try to go to the potty. Everytime there was a deposit made in the potty he got a treat. (at the time he LOVED marshmellows so that was his treat) He loved it when the timer would go off and he would say"GOTTA GO POTTY"...lol...It was kinda like a game. He was potty trained in one weekend using this. We also made him where big boy underwear during this except for at night and we put training pants on him then. Hope this helps:)

when we where having problems we would take the favorite toy and show the kids that the favorite toy was going potty in the toilet and then the favorite toy would get a treat. then when the kids would go they would get a treat and if they had an accident that was totally their own, like not in the car while i was frantically searching for a place with a bathroom, i would remind them lovingly that we needed to have more practice on the toilet. sounds corney and it's a dr. phil rip off, but it worked.

My daughter is 2 and we have just started to potty train and we use stickers. Everytime she goes on the potty she can pick a sticker. Some people even make a chart that he/she can put the sticker on and after so many stickers they can get a prize. When my daughter starts going potty mor on her own I think that is what we are going to do.