Potty Training Help Needed VERY Frustrated Mommy!!

every child is different, but this is what I did with my girls when I knew they had it down, but they were just not doing it. I took them to the toy store and let them pick out a very special toy - they chose care bears. I called them "poopy bears," and explained that when the girl goes poopy in the potty, she gets to play with the bear, but when she goes poopy in her pants, the bear goes up in the closet until she goes on the potty again. No discipline, no negative feedback; it's just the nature of the bear that it stays in the closet until she goes in the potty again. It was a competition and they were really motivated to get their bear. still had accidents, but I was very positive and said, Well I know you will go in the potty next time and get that bear back! and that worked for me. took about 1 week with one girl and about a month for the other; the slower one got a lot better but still had some accidents. worth a try. good luck.

Mine was potty trained late. I missed the signs when she was 2 and half or I have to admit I was not ready at the time to make the commitment. I had to do the weekend 48 hour ordeal which worked very well because she did not like to get herself wet...went to the potty seat straight to the toliet in two days. But I had trouble with her doing #2 still in her pants, so what I did was since she loved playing with the soft Disney princess dolls, and would sleep with those...when she finally pooped in the toliet, I bought her one she did not have and she was so excited to have a new princess to add to her clan. I told her she had to keep going to the toliet to poop and when and if she pooped in her pants, the new doll was going away for awhile...she did not like that at all so I saw a whole effort on her part....she did real good for two days and then had an accident and understood the doll was going a way until she pooped in the toliet...and so on. After that, she never pooped in her pants again. No accidents since. Then I just got her night trained. I was putting her in pullups & waiting until she woke up dry, one week she woke up dry each morning and we went straight to the toliet to pee....and then we went to Disney and I thought since it was a different place etc...I would just put her in big girl panties, luckily she stayed dry all night since so when we came home from vacation, she continued to wear with no accidents. My key to that working is to make sure she pees at night before bedtime even if she says she does not have to, she still goes :)

There have been a lot of postings about potty training issues recently! I've responded to some, typically with the same advice . . . be patient!! It is a big change for young children and backpedaling isn't uncommon. Her routine was disturbed and now she just needs time and patience to get back on track. When my eldest daughter was that age, she absolutely refused to poop on the potty. It took six months to get her on track. First and foremost, don't harp on it because it will just stress everyone out. Try a reward system . . . something visual like a sticker chart. And after X times of successful pooping on the potty, give her a tangible gift (something small but that will make her happy), and put a picture of that gift on the chart. And again, I can't stress enough the importance of patience and not nagging!

Let her have accidents and help clean them. Putting her in training pants will help with the mess(cloth ones). Don't get angry even though this is so hard. I just went through the same thing brought on by constipation and some pain when he finally went. After that my son refused to poop for days at a time. When he finally couldn't hold it anymore, we had to run back and forth to the potty like 5 times before he actually went(half in the toilet and half in his underware). After a few weeks and just about when I thought I'd loose my mind, he decided to go again and everything went back to normal overnight. Good luck to you both!