Potty Training 3 Year Old

There's a great book by Elizabeth Pantly called the no-cry potty training solution. It was very helpful.

Just be patient & consistant. She'll get it soon. If her mom is gone a lot, this could be contributing.

C.-
Have you tried DORA until you go potty? each kid needs a schedule and you giving her a potty schedule and sticking to it will actually work out in the end. My kids have to go to the bathrom as soon as they wake up, around 10am, before nap, after nap before bed......part of potty training is the actual training of your body to release the toxins regularly. Train her, by insisting she go, like stated before, no Dora until you haveg one stick to the schedule and her body will eventually just require she go at those times.

She will also start to relize the sensation her body gives her right before hand as a signal to go and in a few weeks, she will probably go with out your reminding her. Since you watch her, you and your daughter need to be on the same page for this to work sit down together and make up a schedule complete with rewards and consequences you both will stick to through then 21 day habit forming process

Old Fashioned, kind of mean, and sounds bad, I guess, but at 56 I have helped toliet train my brother (9 years younger), done my own 2 (DD 28 and DS 26) and the child I am now raising 10. When all else fails return to the basics.

1) Okay, you don't want to be a big girl so it is back to diapers. Back to baby toys, and back to being treated like a baby. I am sorry, big girls who use the toilet get to ride their bike. I am sorry, only big girls who use the toilet get to have suckers. I am sorry only big girls who use the toilet have Barbie dolls.

2) Bribery. This one worked best at my house. You want the big sucker from the ice cream parlor? I would love for you to have it, too. Here is how you get the big sucker. If you can go potty on the toilet for one week with no accidents we will get you the sucker! She couldn't wait to call my dad and tell her she had gone to the potty only on the toilet for a week with no accidents. The sucker arrived the next day! Naturally the day following she went in her pants so it started all over again. She wanted special doll, the deal was 2 weeks. We had no accidents for 2 weeks, she got the doll and 4 hours later she wet her pants and the doll went on the shelf. There was also a swing set she had no accidents for a month to earn it (she was going to get it for her birthday anyway, we had all ready purchased it and hidden it in the garage). Three hours after it went up she wet her pants and the slide and swings all came off the swing set and were put away until she managed two weeks again. She quit wetting her pants all together that time.

My cousin was liked the idea and it worked for her with both of her boys too, taking away big boy toys, back to diapers and earning something they wanted by using the toilet and losing it if there were accidents. Several of my friends have used this system too.

Good Luck!!!

P. R

When I was toilet training my children, I put them in regular underwear and put them on the toilet every hour. If they went potty they got an M&M. It wasn't too long that they were able to tell me when they needed to go.

Coming from a former preschool teacher the only thing I can say is that if she is going when you take her, just keep taking her every two hours. Some kids just take longer than others to become independent about it. Keep up the big girl panties and keep her on a pee-pee schedule. She will eventually come around.

i would back off, she apparently is not ready. every body developes differently.i know one girl who is 3 that sometimes does and sometimes does not same for my nephew. he did good for a while and then stopped a little. they say you are not late until four.

I am going through the same thing too! The only thing that works is me making her go on the potty on a schedule. When she resists me, then I set the timer in the kitchen. Someone told me to try the timer and it works pretty well. Even if she doesn't want me to tell her to go, she will still obey the timer. I guess it is just taking her longer to figure it out, so until she will go on her own, I have to tell her to go...and that includes being in the bathroom and making sure she tries. Otherwise if I don't go in with her, she might go in there and mess around in the sink or something else and not even sit on the potty. It gets old, constantly telling her, but at least she is going on the potty, even if she is not trained.

My MIL tried pushing my oldest to potty train the day he turned 2. When things weren't going "her" way, she suggested I talk to his Dr. The best advice he ever gave me was to allow my children to do things on their own time. I quit pushing and had her do the same. We came home after work one day a couple of months later, and he said "Momma, I have to go." He never had an accident after! I used the same technique on my other two, and it does work! My 2nd(daughter) potty trained, she was about a year older, but the same thing worked. Again, with no accidents. My youngest was over 3 by the time he learned too, but again no accidents.

With my two I introduced the potty to them and would take them when they asked but other than that I just let them do it on their own. Neither of them have really ever had an accident. Let her go she will do it when she is ready she is still young!!!!

A.

I am going through the same exact thing!!!! My last child of six just turned 3 in April and we also have tried everything. Her pediatrician just says don't push the issue, but it seems she is just not interested in trying at all. We even tried the "potty party" with the cake and gifts of panties. It worked for a day. I am just as frustrated!