Daughter Peeing on Floor

I like using the Once Upon a Potty video for potty training. I think it does a good job of explaining where everything should go. They have a girl video and a boy one. They are available from Netflix. I let them watch it with their little potty in the living room until they get the hang of it

I wonder if she is peeing in the same spot everytime? If so, maybe you could try putting a trainer potty in that spot for awhile and see if that helps?

maybe if you can cut back on her liquids one day so she pees less and then you can take her every hour so she really doesnt get a chance to pee on the floor. maybe after that she will get used to putting pee in the potty. just a lil quick fix idea that might work.

Let he freak out. Tell her underwear are for big girls who don't potty on the floor. Then do a chart..give her a sticker for each time she goes in the potty and take away two stickers if it is anything but a true accident. When she has a full chart (you determine how long she has to do this...two weeks, a month, etc.) she gets a reward (new underwear or a really wanted toy or video). Stay strong and stick to it. Do not give in just because she freaks out. Also put her potty chair in her room, then slowly move it too the bathroom. It could be that she doesn't recognize the sensation until it is too late and she feels like she can't make it to the bathroom and take her underwear off in time. Good luck.

a couple of suggestions:
1. Is she just waiting too long to go? Try sitting her on the potty every 30 minutes and having her try for 5 minutes to go. Tell her we have to take the time to try. Make it a chant or song.

2.Is she pushing your buttons? Do you freak out or take it calmly? Is she alone when she does this? If so, where are you? She could be doing it as an attention getter or saying she needs more Mommy time.

3. Is she truly ready for potty training. Just because she wants to, doesn't mean her body is ready. My son went through this and we had to go as far as wrapping duct tape around his diaper to keep it on, but EVERYTHIME he was in big boy pants he would pee right through and not seem to care or notice. He threw huge fits about wearing them, but in the end, I was tired of feeling frustrated and 6 months later when we tried again, he was accident free. I am not saying an accident now and then is not OK, but this was EVERYTIME. (though if she is taking them off first, it doesn't sound like unreadiness)

Try a tiny reward system. Like everytime she goes pee in the potty she gets two mini M&M's (but you need to use a potty and not a toilet or she will start telling you she has gone just to get the candy and you need to be certain so you are just doling out candy all day)

Best of luck!
A., in Taylorsville, MD

try putting a portable potty in her room so she will have a place to go and won't have accidents.

Hello, Well I bet this is really aggravating. My daughter is 16mths and ve've introduced her to the potty chair and take her to the rest room with us evertime we go and encourage her to pee in the potty and poo sometimes she does one or the other or both and we do the "pee poo dance" So I guess I'm saying make everytime a fun and encouraging time that she will want to do it over and over. Even have some stickers for her or reward calander for the stickers on the bathroom door. She can recieve a bigger prize after a certain amount of time. You can get stickers anywhere and just make up a chart to fill with possibly the days of the week she could get a sucker at the end of the week for all of her hard work. Hope this idea helps I will be using it myself. Supernanny has great advice. M. M

Hi S.,
When she pees in her room, is it always in the same general location? If yes, try putting a lil potty there.
M.

Put tight underwear on her. Then, she'll pee in her underwear, if she doesn't pee in the potty. That was with me. I loved my tight underwear. If I was going to pee on the floor and didn't have my underwear on, I'll hold my pee and put on my tight underwear, which I'd freak out, if I peed on the floor outside my tight underwear. I am of Autism and Profound Mental Retardation. The same must go for her.

Have you tried putting a potty seat in there? Maybe that would be more comfortable for her than the bathroom--and keep your floors clean. Then you can gradually move the seat.

Just a thought...have you tried purchasing an extra potty for her room...put it near the "scene of the crime" and tell her it's special for pee pee! ?
best of luck...

Hi S.,

There is a web site for potty training.

www.parentingtoddlers.com/pottytraining.html

There is a family resource center that may be able to help you as well.

Chesapeake ###-###-####

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Hampton Roads Parenting Education Network ###-###-####

Old Dominion Child Study Center ###-###-####

Hope this helps. good luck. D.

Hi S., my little man turned 2 yrs old Feb 24th and was just doing the same thing! When he would get up from a nap, he would take off his underware and pee on the floor! It's like he didn't want to pee in his pants. He would even take them off and pee in the bed. That was a long 2 weeks I tell you! I started running and talking to him as soon as I heard him up. I would say I'm on my way ! let's go to the potty! Hold on I'm coming! All of this as I ran up the stairs to get him before he even took off his pants.
We talked about going potty constantly all day long. I would ask him every few minutes if he had to go pee-pee. Then I started taking him to the bathroom every 30 minutes to try. This helped me to get to know his bladder better. Then we went every hour. Now he tells us when he needs to go. We have had only 1 floor peeing incident and no more on the bed since then.
It wasn't an easy time but it's now worth it all!
Take Care...N. =)
PS...I always made him help clean it up. He had to step on the towel to soak it up. He had to spray the Solumel (toxin free cleaner that takes the smell out too)and clean it all up. I would make the yuky face and say things like sheeew that is so nasty! Yuky! You don't pee in the floor. You pee in the potty. My face must have looked pretty bad cause I remember the look on his as he stuck out his tounge and said yuk. LOL

Hi, S.. That's great that you can get her to poop on the potty!!! Our twin daughters just turned 2 as well (1-26-06). They're doing pretty well with the peeing, but will not poop. When we first started and they wanted to wear the underwear but kept going in their panties, we told them that they would have to go back to their baby pants and that seemed to help a lot. You might try putting on pants (i.e., overalls) that she can't pull down so that she has to come to you when she has to potty. Or, maybe, putting a potty chair in her bedroom so that she can get to it right away. Good luck!!