Potty Training - Need Help! - Des Moines,IA

Hate to say this but its normal. My son went through this this summer. We spent probably a month running to the potty every 5 minutes at the store only to have him freak out and cry he didn't want to go, then get back to shopping (or eating) and do it all over again. Its just a phase, I think they feel like they have to go but don't really yet. I asked this same thing and got no new solution :) She will get over it. I think its mostly for attention cause my son will still do it occasionally if I am really busy/we are somewhere new. Or he will also do it when he has to poop on the potty, but he is still resisting this even though he has been pee trained for 6 months or more. Bear with it!

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We are going through this exact same thing with our oldest that is also 27 months. She likes the bathroom door shut when she is going potty and she insists on taking ALL of her clothes off too (including her socks!). I have just been encouraging it and often let her do it by herself, checking in on her from time to time. She is at the point now where she can open the toilet lock on the big potty all by herself and dumps her own potty in the toilet and flushes. She now just needs help washing her hands because she can't reach. The problem that I have is that my daughter wants "wonderwear on my butt" meaning she doesn't want to wear diapers, she wants underwear on her bare butt. But she usually goes a little potty in her underwear BEFORE she goes on the potty. I'm thinking this is normal too. We have been calling pull-ups "wonderwear" and it helps her want to wear the pull-ups too!

Just wait till you find out every single store you go into she needs to go potty. It is annoying for a bit but they seem to get over it. For about 3 weeks almost every new store we went into our daughter had to go potty. Even if she didn't actually have to go. The same thing as you around the house, They seem to just test if saying they have to go in different situations will work. If my mommy is cooking and I say I have to go potty will she take me. She will probably even test this if she is in time out. Now if she begins to ask multiple times before bed or time out or in inappropriate times...then you can start talking with her about it and then imposing a discipline. Otherwise ride it out for a while and soon enough it will just be when she actually needs to go... If you discipline her too much off that bat she might regress and stop going.

Very normal behavior for her age and potty training. I would just continue to take her when she has to go. It won't take very long before she will find this tiresome and will only ask when she really has to go.

She likes the positive encouragment she is receiving when she goes potty, That is a good thing, but now that she seems to know what she is doing, I would suggest only mildly encouraging her once she goes. Not such a production, as most of us make

she will mostly get over it. we still sometimes have problems with our daughter at bed time. She knows we will never tell her no if she says she needs to go potty. our solution for bed time is to take a toy away if she doesn't really go. It works pretty well. Some nights when she is really stubborn we have to take two toys away but that is pretty much the limit. it helps if she has babies or toys she likes to sleep with. Good luck! remeber, this too shall pass.

We went throught the same thing with our daughter. Then I finally said to her that she'd get 1 sticker for #1 and 2 stickers for #2 and that was it. She may just need some incentive. Good luck!