Potty Training a Two Year Old Girl

You should put her into training panties. They are like underwear but much thicker incase of an accident no leakage. Pull ups make toddlers lazy when it comes to training as its convenient and is not uncomfortable when they go in the diaper. Training panties allow the child to feel the accident so it is extremely uncomfortable and they soon find out how much nicer it is to use the potty. They did wonders for my 3 year old who wouldn't break away pull ups after 1 year.

It sounds like she's not fully ready yet. I wouldn't push it or it could make it worse. They make XL pull-ups for kids all the way up to 8 (or more), so I'm sure they have her size. I started potty training my son at 2.5, but he wasn't actually trained until 3.5. I spent a year fighting something that he wasn't ready for. I would relax and give her more time. One day she'll be ready and that'll be the end. Good luck!

These are all great ideas. One thing I did with my kids is taht I used training pants instead of pullups. Personally I think if they actually FEEL the wet and discomfort of poop they get it. Consistancy is obviously important and bribery definitely works great too!!

Nathan shines in you, D.- and he always will --- the gift of him is forever ( not his minute-to-minute presence - no - but Nathans' love for you will warm you- always)

Your lamb??? --- try a variety of approaches and see what works for her -I actually potty trained my youngest with bribery -- it went like this ''' gee, Susie- I need to go buy another BIG box of those pampers- you know- if I didn't buy those - I could surely get you a nice toy---- but then we wouldn't HAVE any pampers-- you'd really have to use the potty all the time-------- do you think you could do that??"""
She replied ''' can I pick my toy?" - and the deal was sealed- no pampers in the house - that was it - ( and I knew FULL well she was able - )

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Blessings, dear heart-
J.
aka - Old Mom

Hi D.! I too am working on potty training my 2 yr. old. I have been setting the timer to go off every two hours, and then I put her on the toilet with the water running, and try to get her to go. She has gone at church and other places, she just hasn't gone for me at home, but I figure if I am consistent, it will happen. She is ready, which is key to potty training any child, they really have to be ready or it won't work. The timer is more for me, so that I don't forget! Good luck with it all:-)

At that age my daughter followed a similar pattern of appearing to be ready, demonstrated by using the potty off and on for a few weeks at a time, and then regressing. We also had poo on the floor once or twice during this timeframe. Very frustrating. But, I realized that she wasn't quite ready, so I did not push it. Instead I just encouraged her to use the potty, while not expecting it. I let her control potty use, and just put her in large diapers/pull-ups/trainers as she was on the larger side too. When she's really ready you will know it and she will use the potty, but don't be surprised if she often still shouts back "No, I don't have to go" while simultaneously doing the potty-dance. There will be accidents, but that too shall pass! My daughter was just over 3 when she was "trained" (just a few accidents now and then due to being distracted/not wanting to stop playing). Now she is 3.5 and we still have the "No, I don't have to go" attitude, but almost no accidents. Hope this helps.

My son was older when he potty trained. We had tried when he was about 2 yrs 9 mos and he always used the potty (without help) when he was naked but didn't do so well with clothes on. Our parent educator at his coop preschool suggested just putting him back in diapers, telling him "his body isn't ready yet" and trying again in a few months. So that is what we did. He was about 3 yrs 3 mos when he started waking up dry a few times- I told him "his body was ready" and we never even had a night time accident after that. The way I figure, you can spend a year potty training or you can spend a very short time with it.
My daughter who is 2yrs 7mos is wearing panties now. She is doing OK but does wet her pants about once a day. We are just going off of her cues. Each child is different.
Try not to get frustrated, try not to make it a power struggle. Just be very happy when she does use the potty and know that she will not be going to college in pull-ups.
Take care, S.

Hi D. -

I haven't read other responses so, I hope I don't repeat something someone else already said. My daughter just turned 2 a week ago and we have been potty training with her since she was 22 months (at her urging that she didn't want to wear diapers anymore). After she was doing really well using the potty for about a month, she started to have a lot of accidents/pooping on the floor or in her pants and wetting her pants a lot more. It was really frustrating because she had been doing so well and even telling us when she needed to go.
For our daughter it seemed to be a little bit of control issue. Which seems to happen a lot at this age. If she would have a blatant accident like ignoring us when we asked her if she had to go or not trying when asked then we would give her a time-out. If it was a true accident we just stayed positive and encouraged her that big girls use the potty. When she is successful we give her lots of praise and a sticker on her sticker chart. With her I noticed the more intense I got about it the more she resisted, but if I just praised the positive and let her know it makes me sad when I know she didn't try to get to potty she responds better.
Sometimes if we get to intense about potty training they will just resist more. The other thing that works is we don't allow pull-ups except at night time. She wears regular panties and that seems to work because she feels uncomfortable when she does have an accident. Early on in the potty training I used plastic diaper covers over her panties so, she could feel it, but the mess wasn't as bad. If you get rid of pull ups she will quickly realize she doesn't have a back up anymore and I bet she'll figure it out quickly.
Best of luck! Be patient and persistent.