Potty Training Troubles - Pittston,PA

Updated on January 28, 2010
L.A. asks from Pittston, PA
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My daughter will be three in March. We have been working on the potty training for quite some time. She will pass her water most times when I put her on it, and occasionally will have a BM. She will not ask to go. She also was a late talker, so we thought that things woud progress when she began to talk more. That's where we are right now.

I tried the training pants last Summer for several days. All I did was wash them all day and she didn't mind being wet. Today when she pulled up her pants before i could diaper her, I let her, to see what she would do. She eventually wet herself and proceeded to color!!!! I gave her a bath, which i have to watch, because she loves a bath and could associate the two.

I have the pull ups, a Potty Elmo doll, the Elmo potty video. I'm ready to try the training pants again. We also give her reward stickers and a lot of praise. Sometimes it seemsthat she will never be out of diapers, although I know that she will. She is starting pre-school end of august, so we have a lot of time. Any advice would be appreciated. She is easy going by nature.

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C.P.

answers from Pittsburgh on

Has she shown signs of being ready? For example, does she use words for going to bathroom, like pee pee or poo poo? Does she show any interest in sitting on the training potty? (there are several readiness signs and babycenter.com has some good articles on this topic)
When my daughter was ready (showed several of the signs) we had a potty training boot camp for three days. We stayed home and she was only dressed in a T-shirt, no diaper or underwear. We stayed in a room where she could play that didn't have carpets so that it was easier to clean up accidents. We had her training potty in the same room with us to make it easier to get her on the seat when she started to go. By the afternoon of day two she really starting to get it. (In the morning of day two I was having my doubts about the whole process, but stuck with it.) Every time she went on the potty we had a big celebration by dancing and singing around the house. On day three I put big girl underwear on her without pants and moved her training potty to the bathroom.
We started at 23 months, she is 28 months now and is only wearing pull-ups for nap and night time. She has the odd accident here or there when she is overtired or upset, but most days she is accident free.
This process has taken way more patience than I thought I ever had!

They are all so different, so while this worked for us, it might not be for someone else.
Best of luck!

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K.L.

answers from Erie on

We, too, did the bare bottom approach, which worked well for my son. I did a little dance and sang "potty, potty, potty... potty all day" every time he was successful ;) I'm not going to tell you there weren't accidents, but this method really helped him to "get" it. The other thing I will mention is that accidents do NOT result in a bath in our house. We have a hand held shower nozzle, so he stands in the tub while I hose him down. There is no play time (and the water is just warm enough to keep me from being arrested) and it is all about efficiency. He knows that he doesn't get a bath just because he made a mess... hope this helps :)

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M.B.

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She'll get it and it sounds like she's probably close, but you just have to find the thing that works for her. All three of mine trained around age 3, but with varying degrees of struggle and techniques. None of mine really seemed to do too well with the typical suggestions (stickers, M&Ms) but I know they work for some people. With my first, we actually found money worked well. I know it sounds crazy, but we'd give her dime to put in her piggy bank every time she peed in the potty and a dollar for a poop. Because we put her on the potty frequently she was getting quite a few dimes a day. After a few days we let her go to the dollar store to pick out a few things with her money. After a few weeks we gradually took the money incentive away, but it worked. With my second, giving her a kitchen timer set to 30 minutes (shorter if she hadn't gone in a while) and making her responsible for going to try the potty whenever it beeped was the key. She felt like she was more in control and less like it was a battle between her and us. My third basically trained herself (wanted to be like her sisters), but for the final jump to panties we used the timer again.

Basically you just need to be patient and find what worked for y our daughter. It can be challenging, but that's one of the frustrations that seems to fade from memory quickly once you're done. Good luck!

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S.D.

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We filled a clear jar with M & M's (so he could see them "waiting" for him). Our son loved them. Since he didn't have candy very often, it was a big deal to get an M & M for going potty. Sounds odd, but for some reason it was enough motivation for him to want to go.

B.K.

answers from Philadelphia on

Keep plugging away at it. My daughter turned 3 in September and we've been working on the potty training since last summer as well. Just recently, within the last couple of weeks, she's really starting to understand when she has to go and has only had an accident every once in a while. Like your daughter, mine also had some delays not walking until 19 months along with a few other things. Don't worry, she'll learn, it just give her time.

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