Potty Trainning!

My mother used good old fashioned bribes. I remember she gave my brother a new matchbox car everytime he did his business in the potty.

Well good girl for telling you that she has to go potty!!!!!!! Maybe if you put an erasable bulliton board on the wall in the bathroom short enough for her to write on it you can get her to go potty on her little chair. Let her put her "Baby mark" on the board every time she does a good job and make a big deal out of it by doing a dance or clapping your hands. But be sure to tell her that the board is the only thing she can write on so she doesn't start writting on the walls. This way she can see everytime she does a good job she gets to leave "her mark". Good luck and god bless.

WOW! What a good girl telling you she has to use the potty! When my daughter was potty training we found that pull-ups were a useless waste of money. They are just diapers without the straps. We just put her in some pretty little girlie panties and told her you can't mess your pretties, well she did, but after the second time, she got the picture. And if your little girl is sitting on the potty all by herself regardless if she is doing anything or not, that is wonderful and should be encouraged. She will be more willing to go if she knows that she is doing a good job. She sounds like she will be an easy one to train. Good luck!

i don't have a girl but the red potty training book helped for me. i think it is for boys but there are some girl books that show them how to go to the potty.

We have recently gone through the exact same thing with our 2 1/2 yr old daughter. For us, it just took a lot of patience and many trips to the potty where she would just sit there. She would say she went pee and nothing had happened. One night, out of no where, it all paid off and now she regularly uses the toilet. We use Pull-up and undies when possbible. Pull-ups have worked great for us. Many people think they just make things worse... I think it is all in how you approach it. Hope this helps.

i am still trying to get my 3yr old trained, but at first i couldn't even get him to sit on it. i found that books or something of that nature to keep him busy while sitting there helped with getting him to at least sit on it. hope this helps a bit.

Hi J., I have two little girls one is 4 and the other is 1. When I started to potty train my 4 year old she was about the same age as yours. When I would sit her on the potty we would do different fun things to keep her sitting. I would paint her nails but she couldn't get down untill they were dry. We would also read books and sing songs. I didn't force her to stay for a really long time, once she started to get squirmy and wanting down I would say 1 more minute and then we could get down. I didn't want to scare her with the potty. I also would put regular underware on her while we were at home. I used the thick kind and I bought lots of cheap sweat pants. That way when she would have an accident it would absorb into the clothes and not run straight to the floor. My daughter hated the feeling of wet clothes. That phased her more than the wet pull up. I hope this helps. Just remember that each child is different, eventually she will get it.

Let me start off by saying that WOW! I commend you for being a single mother of 2! I can only imagine how busy you must be with such young children!

Consistency, consistency, consistency. My daughter did the SAME thing. SHe is now 3 and not totally potty trained YET ... but we're getting close. She has yet to go number 2 on the potty but she has finally gotten the hang of peeing in the potty. I went to the dollar store, picked out a bunch of cheap pairs of underwear for her and made her feel like a big girl. I increased the amount of water, juice, milk, any liquid she liked, to make her NEED to go potty more. The first couple of times I had allowed her to play with a special toy or do something she doesn't normally get to do. Pretty soon it clicked that when she went on the potty, she was rewarded for it.

I used to get so frustrated when she would say she wanted to sit on the potty and nothing. She'd sit and watch cartoons, or read a book, or play with her toys, and the moment I put a diaper on her, she'd go. Kids don't like to feel wet especially if it's all over her clothes. I abandoned diapers all together and she's had 99.9% success at peeing in the potty ever since. She wears a pull up at night time and during her naps, just because I don't have enough sheets should she have an accident!

Good luck to you!

It's great that she is showing interest. We are using M&M's as a treat if my son pees in the potty.

J. - It's great that she is showing interest in the potty, but showing interest or "signs of readiness" doesn't exactly mean that she is ready. It just means that she is interested or curious. The most frustrating thing I have learned about children is that they do things on their own time tables, when they are ready and not when we are ready. After my son was born, he is 9mos now I had had it with my 2 1/2 year old who would tell me when she went in her diaper and demand to be changed, but refused to use the potty. However getting upset with her did absolutley no good, it just made the situation worse. It took five months after her little brother was born, but all of a sudden one day she was just done with diapers. She told me she was a big girl and big girls use the potty. I didn't have to do anything, but be patient and allow her to do it when she was ready. I know it is frustrating, but it will happen!! Good luck :)

My daughter who is now 2, on the 19th, went through the same thing. She didn't want clothes on period! So we tried using the potty and putting her in 'undies'. She always wanted to sit on the potty but would never do anything. She wanted to wear her undies though, so we let her for awhile. But she would pee where ever and yell at the top of her lungs MOMMY PEE PEE! She didn't like the wet feeling, but it didn't stop her. She ended up wanting her diaper back and then she left it on. Then she started to tell me everytime she would go ion her diaper and would want to be changed. And she would be dry in the morning, so we tried again. This time it worked. In less than a week, about 4 days she would tell me everytime she had to pee. The pooping was a little hard at first, but now, just yesterday she told me she had to go and went right away. That was about the 4th or 5th time pooping on the potty. She doesn't seem to go as often now, but still regular enough. So I would suggest that if you can try her in undies some kids hate the wet all over them and then they will want to go in the potty or they could be like my daughter and want diapers back. Then try again in a little while.

Underwear time!! If she is telling you when she needs to go, it's time for undies...pull ups are fancy Diapers, they don't help with training at all (this we figured out after a year in Pull Ups!!! My Oldest was Pee trained in 3 days and poop trained in about a week after we switched to straight undies...even at night after about a week he stayed dry.

Good Luck!!