Potty training-PLEASE HELP!

I don't know if you have tried this, but if she doesn't mind going on herself then don't put any clothes on her. Then keep the potty close to her at all times and ask her ever 15 to 30 minutes if she has to go. My daughter is 4 and was very resistant to using the potty for a long time. I found that what worked best was to give her rewards when she sat on the potty - even if she didn't go, like a handful of m & m's. We also had lots of playdates with friends who were already potty-trained or were in the process. After seeing that her friends were doing it, it didn't take long for her to decide on her own that she wanted to use the potty.

Funny going through same thing with my two year old...Found this last night on dr. phil:

Potty Train Your Child In Less Than a Day
What You Need

A doll that wets

A potty chair

Big boy/girl underwear (instead of diapers)

Lots of liquids for your child and the doll to drink
**Note that the following instructions using liquids also apply to potty training for bowel movements.

Consider Before You Begin

Development: The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests waiting until 2 years of age to potty train.

Modeling: You can demonstrate or have the doll demonstrate the process of "going potty."

Motivation: Find out who your child's superhero is. The hero will provide the motivation in this process.

Step 1: Teach a Doll That Wets
Your child will learn by teaching the doll how to go potty. Have your child name the doll and give it something to drink. Then walk the doll to the potty chair with your child. Pull the doll's "big kid" underwear down and watch the doll go potty together.

Step 2: Throw the Doll a Potty Party!
When the doll successfully goes potty, throw a potty party! Make it a big blowout with party hats, horns and celebrate. Give lots of attention to the doll so that your child understands that going potty is a good thing.

Let your child know that when he goes potty, he will have a potty party too. Not only that, your child gets to call his favorite superhero to report the good news!

Step 3: Get Rid of the Diapers
At the beginning of the process you placed underwear on your child's doll. Now it's time to take away the diapers and put underwear on your child.

Step 4: Drink Lots of Fluids
Give your child plenty of fluids to drink. The sooner he has to go potty, the sooner you can begin potty training.

Step 5: Ten Trips to Potty When Accident
Ask your child if he needs to go potty. Your child might say no and that's OK. Because you've given your child plenty of fluids, he will soon need to go.

If your child has an accident in his underwear, don't scold him. You want this to be a positive experience. Instead, take your child to the potty, pull his underwear down, and have your child sit down. Do this 10 times. This builds muscle memory and your child will eventually go.

Step 6: Let the Celebration Begin!
When your child successfully goes potty, throw him a potty party. Most importantly, your child can now call his favorite superhero and tell the hero about what he just did! Enlist the help of a friend or relative to play the hero and take the phone call.

When your child has an accident, simply take him/her to the bathroom ten times in a row as you did before. This will continue to build muscle memory. And don't forget to keep up the positive reinforcement.

I cant help but let me know if you get any good ideas im starting to potty train my 15 month old girl. Wanted to introduce her early and stuff..

have u tried the potty in front of the tv. and having the second one do that might be a good thing. she will be easy to train. take to the potty if she goes give a little treat. if not. say its ok we will come back and try again. every kid is different. my 13 yr old did great with the potty in front of the tv with just underwear. the twin which are 5 now i had to do treats. my four yr old was easy. he saw them going and wanted to go too. i also did a potty chart. i put the name on it. and i would give them a sticker everytime they went. they liked that one too. try one and see. ur one yr old will follow her. which she will more and likly be the easiest one. don't get frustrated. she is not doing it on possibles. she is two. and two is a rough age. been there. we all have or will. girls are hard. i think its because they want to do things themselves. i have to girls and two boys and i find the boys easler. anyways.... good luck and don't worry it gets better.

My boys were very hard to potty train, my now 8 yo daughter was very easy. My oldest son, I made him clean himself up when he had a "messy accident". He hated this...cried that it was yucky. It took two times and he decided that it would be easier to just use the potty! My daughter would follow me EVERYWHERE once she could walk...including the bathroom. She watched me go everytime I went. Eventually she wanted to sit on the potty after I was finished. She didn't do anything the first few times, but I just followed her lead. Letting her follow my example, she was trained before she turned 2. Each child is different, however. I have a daughter who is 13 months. I have no idea how she will be with potty training...but her temperment is very similar to my oldest son's at that age!

I am a mother of three, and a two year old pre-school teacher. I have seen kids fight tooth and nail the potty experience and I have seen them practically train themselves. Maybe you could try not reacting. I know this proves difficult, my experience with my little girl consisted of potty trained one day - completly not the next, but I learned if I did not react and instead responded, she did much better. We used popsickle sticks as a way to keep up with her pottying. She was rewarded 1 stick for each pee-pee in the potty and 2 for each poo-poo. But, if she had an accident, SHE had to remove her sticks, 1 for pee-pee, 2 for poo-poo. Once she had a certain number of sticks, she got to choose a prize. Also, maybe if you let her pick out a potty, or maybe let her decorate it with stickers she earned each time she went it would help her. At school, we just rely on the kids getting rewarded and MAJOR scheduling. Every 15 minutes they go sit on the potty, on this seems to work with most of them. Just keep positive!! She is definately old enough and certainly seems to understand the concept since she's removing the soiled diaper. My sister did that when she was potty training, and what stopped that was when my mom made her clean up the mess. I think it only took 2 weeks before she quit doing that!! Anyways, good luck, I hope some of this helps!

My advice is to wait!! She is obviously not ready to potty train right now. Taking off her diaper because it is dirty doesn't necessarily mean she is ready to potty train. It just means that she doesn't like it on her butt. I have a son who turned 2 early this month and he is doing the same thing. I have to check his diaper a lot to make sure there will not be surprises on the floor. I also put him in onesies under his clothes. That slows down the undressing at least. I get so frustrated when people assume that by 2 kids are ready to potty train. Most kids do not potty train right when they turn 2. My kids all pretty much potty trained themselves and it was closer to the age of 3. And they are all very smart children. With my oldest (a 12 year old) I tried to potty train her when she was about 28 months old. We spent months with me taking her to the bathroom and accidents in underwear. It was frustrating for me and for her. At 34 months I had to put her in Pull Ups full time because of a visit to out of town family. She used them like diapers the whole time. When we got back home I started all over potty training, and one month before she turned 3, she started going on the toilet and having no accidents. With my second daughter I waited until a month before she turned 3 and she literally potty trained in two days. Up until that day, she had NEVER gone on the toilet. She cried the few times I tried. So I stopped trying. It was that simple. She peed on the toilet one day and the next, she was in underwear and had no accidents. My third daughter was the earliest to potty train. She was 33 months old. She told me one day she wanted to wear underwear. I put them on her and told her she had to use the toilet. A half hour later she had an accident. We changed her and she never had another one. It is so much easier when they are older. I do home daycare and have watched many many kids over the last 8 years. More have potty trained closer to 3. Pull ups are a waste of money. Even the ones that allow them to feel wetness. If they aren't ready to potty train they don't care about the feeling. I always tell people not to stress over potty training. There are so many bigger issues to worry about when having kids. Your children WILL potty train when they are ready. Sorry for such a long response!!

Hello S.. The biggest thing to potty training is being so very consistant with reminding her about every 15 minutes to start and as she starts to have less accidents then you can cut the reminders to about 30 minutes and so on.It may seem so time consuming at first but I promise you that if your very consistant then she will learn and you will adventuraly see that she is doing it all on her own and all your hard work will pay off. A great key is a lot of praising her. I have used stickers before for a reward and it really worked. Go to a dollar store and get her very own sticker book and some cheep stickers. let her pick them out and let her know over and over again that this is for a reward and everytime she has success in the potty then let her put a sticker in her new book. Also, if she doesnt have her own little potty you will need to get on of those. Good luck to you : )

My daughter was almost four when she potty trained herself. I had spoke with her doctor and he said that she will learn in time. So don't worry if she takes longer then other kids. She will eventually teach herself. It will take time although she never done what your daughter is doing. I would say just check on her often especially after she has had something to drink. I am now potty training my 3yr. old little boy. which is going fairly well. Good luck.

Hi S., I'm not sure if this will help as i am mother to a 26 and 24 year old. But I remember having the same identical problem when my son was a toddler. Someone gave the idea of making potty time like a short play time. We all know how kids love to act grown up and they also love to play with water. These days it may also help because they have the little "just for kids" soaps and wipes with cute little decorations on them. I think Huggies or one of the name brands make them. Keep them out of reach for the girls , but kind of let them know that each time they come and tell you they have to potty is a fun time. When she has succesfully done her business, that is when she gets to use the fun soap and wipes and wash her own hands. I know first hand this can be trying because as moms we aren't always available to have a 20 minute playtime when they "have to go". But it is very important for them to know and show they are independant. My son used to be one to completely undress, right down to his socks when he had to go. Therefore, he would have his clothes completely off by the time I knew he was ready to go potty. But try the special fun soaps and stuff maybe and see of that helps. It also made bath time alot easier if they knew it was a big fun time. Little people (kids) are so thrilled when they get to use their own stuff by themselves that maybe she will get used to it and be anxious to tell you next time she has to go. I hope I helped although it has been awhile. Also it helps a huge deal for you to be excited and reward her in some small way each time you guys are succesful at this. Have a blessed day and just be patient S., it will all happen when the time is right but with everyone, consistency is a good thing. Hope to hear it is going well. Jen

Potty training is NOT easy for anyone. I have a 2.5 year old niece. My mom potty trained her. My mom always gave her a prizes if she went potty in the potty chair, stuff like 4 M&M's, little toys(nothing big). At first she just went pee in the potty chair and getting her to poop in the potty chair was hard....she would still wear Pull Ups and poop in them (usually she hid when she did). To get her to go poop and pee in the potty chair...my mom would buy her a bigger toy (she loves JoJo Circus so my mom would buy her a little JoJo toy or DOra). And if she kept them dry and clean all day long and told my mom when she had to go potty, My mom would buy her a little girl movie or big girl undies. Now, she only wears pull ups "sleepy pants", when we are in the car and when she goes to bed. For two months she has been keeping her pants dry and clean, but has to use every bathroom in every place we go.
You have to make a huge deal about them keeping their pants dry and clean, and when they tell you they have to go potty (both pee and poop). Your little one just may be the easiest to potty train if she is watching her big sister:-D
I wish you the best of luck...dont stress to much if they sense that they will get scared about the potty

P.S My mother had three girls, and we were all potty trained by the age of 2. These are her ideas. Something bothered me about other responses. Children are not supposed to be training themselves to go potty in the potty chair and are supposed to be pottytrained completely by the time they reach Preschool-kindergarten age, before they go to school. A child doesnt tell you that they are ready to go potty in the potty chair, and if she doesnt like poopy on her butt..then show her where its supposed to go...in the potty. Kids love to learn where things are supposed to go, make a game out of it. The best advice that Ive seen is the one about Dr. Phil.

S.,
Sorry to hear that you're having so mcuh trouble. I know it must be frustrating... Have you tried the pull-ups that have some kind of "alert" system? By that I mean, the pull-up turns different color, or gets cool, or a pattern shows up, etc., when they have wet or soiled it. My sister-in-law used those with her daughters, and they worked wonderfully for her with both of her daughters. I had boys, so my potty-training experience was not as difficult or frustrating. Hope the tip helps... Best of luck to you and your little ones!!

try telling her she is a big girl and big girls wear panties-get reg panties or the pulls or the cloth training panties and tell every time she uses the potty she gets a surprise/reward --mine did good with candy.....make her wear the panties so that if she uses the potty in them it will help her understand the process--my little girl could not stand to be wet so i kept telling her to use the potty and she want be wet........now she is 3 goes to the potty anytime....

Our 2 year old potty trained at about 19 months (peepee), but I still can't get her to do #2 on the potty. She insists that she wants to wear a diaper when she feels the need to go. Anyway, we had great success by removing her diaper and allowing her to be naked at home for 2 weeks. We kept the potty close by and whenever she needed to go she ran to her potty. We read every potty book written for children every day sometimes a few times a day. The library always had a great selection even some videos. On the Sesame street website I have found under games, a cute story about elmo using the potty! my daughter loves it. We also gave 2 M&Ms after a peepee and 4 after poop. That really got her motivated in the beginning! You should try training them both at the same time since the younger one is copying that behavior! good luck-S.