Help! I need some tips on potty training. I am having a heck of a time with this. Anything would be appreciated. They say that girls are easier to train. Well not in my case. She will be three soon and I am now at home full time with her and I really want to get this down before summer. Thank you and I look forward to your suggestions. Jayme

Well, how are you going about it thus far?

I literally just took the diapers away and got the potty seats out and went for it. (I'd done a lot of "practice sessions" though since they were about 12 months old with no expectations of course. At 2 I was done with diapers so, they didn't wear them anymoreLOL

My older daughter was harder to train for bm's but pee was fine. She did well except for if she had to poop and then she'd pee herself... she used the toilet 2-3 times a day at most and so couldn't sit to pee if she had to poop, etc.


I did some strange things, but it seemed to work. One: be ready to really do it and stick with it. Two: watch for patterns. My girls went right before they sat for every meal SO I actually put the potty seats on the chairs, sat them down with bare bottoms and they immediately had success.... I did that two meals with success then moved them down to the kitchen floor against the wall, then further away and closer to the bathroomLOL I also had them sit once an hour at first. Id give them a book and at one point I actually gave them like 3 M&M's if they did something in the pot..... they were young enough the M&M thing only lasted a few weeks at most I just weened them off as quickly as I started them.

If this is a poop issue...... it took my oldest until she was 4 1/2 to get that but she had issues with it. I can explain more if you want or careLOL

I got rid of of the pull-ups afer 2 weeks. I found that Emma quit peeing in her panties after 2 days. She didn't like that "wet" feeling. Still working on the poops. She pooped on the potty today. Yeah! We still wear diapers at bedtime.

JG, I really didn't have too many problems with training my daughter. I don't remember exactly when she started using the potty, but something that helped and was fun was a tape I bought, called Once Upon a Potty. They have one for him, and one for her. It's really cute, about a little girl named Prudence, who's Grandma comes to visit and brings her a present. A potty. It's a cartoon, and my daughter loved watching it over and over. We gave rewards too, if they used the potty. My babysitter actually had a calendar on the wall, and days with no mishaps, they got to put a sticker on the day. They would get fruit chews, and stickers, whenever they used the potty. Good luck.

I agree with pooker. Once Upon a Potty is a great tape and you can pick one on E-bay for short money. Pooker do you still sing that song from the tape? We watched it so many times...lol.

My mom helped me out too by sending me these really heavy cotton underwear from JC Pennys that were just thick enough to catch everything but still made her feel uncomfortable.

Pull ups are just another form of diapers - I found they didn't work and were expensive. The only time I used them was at night. I would put them over her cotton underwear to alleviate any potential accidents during the night.

Also, consistency is the name of the game. Once you start don't go back to diapers as others have stated. Start the process when you know that there are not going to be any changes in your daily routine for a couple of weeks and make sure that you talk to anyone who might watch her for you what the routine is.

I didn't get my daughter completely trained until she was 3.5 yrs old but that's just because she regressed after her daddy left us.

Hope this helps and I wish you luck.

Unfortunately i have no words of wisdom. At 2 I started the whole thing my daughter couldn't be bothered.I took a few months of an empty toilet bowl and then she just went one day by herself.She only wore pull ups at night but thankfully she was never the kinda kid who woke up with a soaked diaper.

Thank you guys so much! I will try some of you suggestions. We succesfully had two pee's on the potty yesterday. Of course we had to phone everyone from both sides of the family so that they could help me in making a huge deal of it. I thenlet her pick out a treat from the cupboard. That seemed to help. Thanks again. Jayme :thanks:

Potty traing days it's been a few yrs since I've dealt w/that one. It reminds me that I will have to deal w/it shortly w/my new baby in about a yr or so.

Anyways I never used pull ups w/my son. I started at one and half yr and I failed the frist time. So i just let it go and my son decied about a month later that he wanted to use the potty. I just put regular undies on him when we were at home and if he wet them he wanted them changed and I sat him on the potty right after so that he got the concept of what it was for. At night and long car trips until he could hold it I put a diaper on him. He turned two in Dec. and was completely potty trained by that Feb.

I've heard girls are eaiser but I think it depends on the child itslef. My best advice is not to sweat it and force her to use the potty. I made that mistake when I frist started and he refused to coperate at all. Just take it nice and slow.

GOOD LUCK

SPIRIT

I have 2 girls and potty training was a different experience for each of them. When I trained my oldest I was a stay at home mom, so I used the thick cotton training underwear (no pull ups). Within a month she was trained day and night. I wasn't going for the nighttime training, it just happened at the same time. My youngest, who I am convinced is my problem child, fought it with the poop. She was pee trained with no problem. The drawback with her, is she was in daycare when she was training and they insist on pull ups. I do think this is why it took so long to train her. It took 8 months! Once she was day trained, she too was night trained. Can't figure that one out, but glad it wasn't a struggle for me.

Good luck!

My son had started showing interest around 2.5 and since we then lived in an apartment with hardwood floors and it was summer I just let him run around without a diaper on. Accidents were easy to wipe up and it gave him an awareness he didn't have with the diapers.

Unfortunately, we ended up moving out right after this and it set us way back. And the new apartment had carpet so the nekkid routine was no longer an option.

Eventually I tired of waiting and announced he was too big for diapers (he'd turned 3) and we were going to start wearing underpants. We stocked up on books (Once Upon a Potty, a Bear in the Big Blue House potty book, You Can Go to the Potty --think that's what it's called-- by Dr. Sears, etc.) and started giving him a sticker and a single M&M every time he used the toilet.

There were still accidents and I put him into a Pull Up at night but potty bootcamp worked pretty well for us. By 3.5 he was completely day trained and dry most nights. By 3.75 he could wear underpants to bed.

Anyway, that's my saga. I hope there's something in there that might be helpful for you and your little one.