Potty Training a Girl - Perkins,OK

I'm potty training my dd who will be 2 on the 28th of this month. I wouldn't know how to potty train a boy-as I have 2 girls. I got a book from the library called Potty Training 1-2-3 by Gary Ezzo (one of the writers of Becoming Babywise.) It's very short and simple-takes a lot from the potty training in a day book, but not quite so concentrated. Anyway, you just sit them on the potty and eventually she will pee and will begin to understand what you are wanting her to do. Give her a big cup of water or juice and wait about 20 minutes and have her sit, if she goes do all the praise reward etc and go again in 20 more mintues. One thing they stress is rewards for keeping the panties dry not just peeing in the potty, and of course theres the consistency thing, of #1 importance-that's why its so hard! God bless your efforts!

My daughter was 19 months when she was potty trained. She saw me when I would go and wanted to go too. So we did the big cuppies of juice and put her on the potty about every 30 minutes. Consistency is the key, as well as not using pull-ups, as soon as we did the transition to big girl panties and she had a few accidents and realized she didn't like the way wet panties felt she figured out really quick that when she had to go to tell mommy. She has had no accidents in the last 3 weeks so I feel confident that she gets it now.

Hey V., I am a mother of three girls. My daughters are 26, 25 and 15. I am soon to be a grandmother of a little girl. I thinks girls are Great. All my daughters were potty trained by 16 months and my youngest was 12 months. I used the little portable potty chair and if we went to grandma's we took it with us. I would take the girls to the bathroom with me everytime I went. Also my girls all loved the little silk panties with the ruffles on the bottom. They would refuse to wet their pretty panties. I would even sometimes put the potty chair in front of the TV while they were watching cartoons. Once they went it was a big deal. We even made up a song. "She went potty in the chair." Just make it fun and give them time - no pressure - but big rewards. Good Luck.

Keep at it. I have found that girls are harder, at least my girls. (I have 2 girls and 2 boys, 1 boy still to be potty-trained at 1 1/2.) I just had to keep at it, I would try to potty train for about one week: using m&ms as rewards, giving them lots to drink and then sitting then on the potty, etc., and then if it didn't work I waited about a month and then tried again.
If I had tried more consistently it might of worked better, but having 4 kids in 4 years, breastfeeding, and homeschooling, I didn't want to spend the time and get totally frustrated with them! It took before they were 3, so I was happy!

I have 2 young girls and we did away with the "tiny" potty pretty quickly. I just used the seat adapter with side handles (found at Walmart) and a little step stool. I didnt have any problems training, they just hopped up there and sat with a small toy or potty book until they did something. We clapped, I wiped, and that was it. :}

I have 3 little girls ages 7,5, and 2. They were all fully potty trained by a 2 1/2 yrs.. It was pretty simple with all of them, started off them coming in the bathroom with me, then of course I would ask on occassions.. I also done a sticker chart, when they went pee 1 sticker, and poo 2 stickers.. it has worked out great! Good luck

I've never potty-trained anybody... but John Rosemond in "Making the 'Terrible' Twos Terrific!" says that kids are able to figure out the mechanics of using the potty if they've had a little modeling, and then are left to do it on their own initiative. So, my 15-month-old knows when I have to use the bathroom, I sit on the toilet, then wipe myself, then put the lid down, then flush. He's a ways off from training himself, but anyway... Rosemond says that potty training isn't as complicated as we've made it out to be, which is what I find appealing about his book (among other things).