Potty Training - Gilbert, AZ

When my daughter and I were in Walmart and I was going to go buy diapers when we walked by the little gils panties. She asked me if she could get the ones with the princesses on them. I told her I would get them but that the princesses didnt like to get wet.Went we got home she put them on and I don't know what it was but from that point on I never had to put her in diapers again. Maybe just let her pick out the panties that she wants to see if that will work. Hope this works for you!

I was pregnant when I was trying to potty train my two year old, so I gave up. But when I went back to it after she turned 3, someone gave me this little tip and it worked. I made a sticker chart. I made a daily calendar and put it up right in front of the toilet. Every time she went pee she got one sticker and 2 for poo. It really worked even to the point that she was going just for a little trickle. After about 2 weeks, the stickers slowed down and she was more impressed that she could use the toilet all by herself.

I have a 25 month old daughter who I am trying to potty train. We go at her pace. I bought a potty chair (the one that "flushes" and has "toliet paper") and have it in the bathroom by the big potty. We have a big sheet of paper on the wall behind her potty chair and she gets 1 sticker for pee and 2 for poo. I work full time and she goes to daycare during the weekdays. They put her on the toliet after every diaper change and when she says she needs to go. At home on the weekends and in the evenings I like to let her go naked and I tell her that if she needs to go potty that we need to go to the bathroom. She does really well with that. She still wears diapers and I try to use pull-ups as much as possible but she has a strong will and sometimes refuses to wear the pull-ups. I just let her tell me when she needs to go. It is way less stressful on me and her. I did freak her out the first time she did it though! I was soo proud of her I started cheering and clapping and praising her, but I scared her. That was a minor little setback. I still praise her with just as much exitement just not as loud! Good luck!!

I'm potty training my 2 year old right now too. I have a bucket of dum-dums and everytime she actually goes she gets a lollipop. she seems to like this so far and it's working. I've also heard of people who keep a bag of m&m's. To actually start it, bribe with candy for just sitting there, after that's not a problem, just offer it when she actually goes. I'm still working on it, but she's getting better and better and knows she gets a lollipop if she goes. Just get super excited for any step she takes. also, the panties seem to help too. Get fun ones with her favorite character or of cute bears or whatever and play up the big girl thing. My daughter will tell me a lot of time she wants to wear panties. I tell her ok, but remind her she has to remember to go potty. Also, she hates poopy diapers so I tell her if she went potty like a big girl she wouldn't have to have the stinky diaper on. i equate diapers with gross and panties and potty with good. she repeats me, so i think she understands the corellation. good luck.

One thing that worked VERY well for us was bribery. Our son wanted absolutely nothing to do with the potty until we began blowing bubbles with him only while he sat on it. If he got up, we quit. He eventually figured it out and would sit on that stupid thing for what seemed like hours.

Once he had an "accident" on it, we praised the heck out of him. He caught on and has been potty-trained ever since.

Every kid is a little different and what works for one may or may not work for another. The thing I've found with all my kids is that consistency with the potty-training is the most important. It's not something you can be vigilant about for a couple of hours and then back off of.

Good luck!

My daughter is 2 and potty trained. (she turned 2 the day after thanksgiving.) She has been 95% potty trained for nearly 6 months. I attribute this first to her willingness, but also to me willingness to be completely committed to it. We started at 18 months with the goal of having her trained at 2. I do not say this to brag, jsutt hat we allowed a sufficient ammount of time. The one issue I hear my friends say is THEY (not the child) are not read to be committed to it). We started with a mason jar of candy that we kept in the bathroom. My daughter had very little sweets at that point, so this was a serious treat and she looked forward to it and I explained repeatedly that when she went potty on the big potty, she would get a treat-every time. We skipped the little potty seat. I have a really weak stomach and had no desire to clean that out several time a day. We got one of the seats that sits right on your toilet to make it soft and makes the hole smaller and more confortable and got a little step stool in the baby department at wal mart. I started putting her on the toilet. We alwasy let her come in and watch us, knowing I was goign to train her early. And everytime-even if she only went a tiny bit, she got a treat. Well pretty quick she wanted her diaper off and IS aid that was fine, but she would have to wear panties, so we put her in panties and I set a timer for every 30 minutes and I took her to the bathroom and a bunch of the times she went. (I set the timer casue I am forgetful and didn't want her to have accidents on account of my poor memory). When we left the house I put a diaper on her but still encouraged her to tell me when she needed to use the bathroom. And she did, in time. She jsut began to want to use the toilet more. And then after a few months, and I was thinkig she was having too much candy, I moved the jar to the kitchen and no longer offered, she had to ask and then I would still give her one, She did ask, abotu half the time and then eventually stopped asking. I imagine most children would keep asking at which point you could simply explain that at some point the jar is empty so we no longer do candy for going potty. Then my daughter decided one day that she didn't want to use her little seat, she jsut sits on it regular. ITs quite funny casue she is tiny. She done'st even use her stool anymore, she hangs onto the counter and scoote herself onto the toilet. The biggest challenge for me is at that young, she dind't have a ton of control so some days we were in there going a ton of times and it got annoying! But I wanted it bad enough that enough though sometimes she had a diaper on still from say an outing, I would still get off my toosh and go take her to the bathroom. Now she is 26 months, and she does have accidents, like if she is playing with friends or soemthign, but even the dr was so surprised she dind't have a diaper on. I guess most peoepl don't start training til closer til 3 now. I found when I gave her somethign to work toward, she was gald to do it, Of course, we gave her tons of praise and hgih fives and told her what a good girl she was. Good luck! BE committed!!! (in however you choose to do it, is my best advice.)

My kids learned how to go in the potty by being naked. It seemed to get them in tune with what was going on down there. If they would start to pee I would tell them to go and put it in the potty. I also had them go when I go, and we talk about the people in their lives and how they put their pee/poo in the potty, too. Also, don't stress. Everyone learns, eventually. Good luck!

I would have to agree with Trisha P.. My oldest was trained at 20 months. I have made my own opinions from watching my friends with there 3 year olds, that waiting that long makes it harder. What I reliezed is that you are not 'potty training', you are 'un-diaper training'. So yes, you might be a slave to the timer and you might have to limit your outings, but from what I have seen, in the long run, you are saving time and energy.

Just remember, two is a little early so don't push it. I found that children do it by watching other children. My two year old is in a pre-school setting every weekday and watches the older kids go to the bathroom, so occasionally when she comes home, she'll motion to go on the toilet. We put her on, nothing happens, but then we help her off the toilet and she wipes herself. So she is understanding what to do, but she is far from being potty trained. Don't panic. Your child will learn it and there is certainly no rush at two.

Well you and I are in the same boat! This weekend I was going try potty training my 2 1/2 year old and so far no luck. People told me to go out and get some big girl panties and put them on her so if she goes in them she would get herself all wet and not like it. Well...after her having 3 accidents and still continuing to play, I have descided that that method doesnt work for us. So I am back to the old schedule of bringing her in the bathroom every half hour to hour. And being a single mom myself its very time consuming! Well good luck!

When I potty trained my oldest daughter (she's 6 now) Charmin would send you a potty training kit. It had a thing to put on the toilet paper roll that showed the length of 4 squares and it had a chart and stickers. Well, I just checked and they don't have that anymore that I can see.

But, the sticker thing is a good idea. Make up some kind of chart showing going in the potty, washing hands, wiping and I don't know, maybe flushing. She gets to put a sticker in each square if she remembers.

You can start by having her sit on the potty as you do. With my sister, when my Mom went potty, my sister had to sit, also. That means you may want to sit for a little longer than normal.

With my nephew, we took him in to the potty every 90 minutes or 2 hours. We took a few books and "Tickety" (the timer). We would set the timer for 3 minutes at first and then we would read and/or sing songs until Tickety rang.

"Experts" say that after your child has gone potty and you rave and praise, you should wait a little before you flush it. Maybe say something about it needing to go bye-bye. Maybe let your daughter flush. I don't know anything about that. When your kid figures out the "magic" of flushing, it is frequently hard to get them to stop!

Each child is different - so I wish you luck!! I have a 1 year old and I can honestly say I'm not looking forward to potty training again!

My now three year old was having a hard time potty training around the time she was two. I took her to her peditrician and she told me not to push her she was still young and she had plenty of time. Sure enough she was right when I stopped pushing she did it. It took her a long time not to go at night, she just recently started waking up to go at night. It takes time and patience.

At first we put a potty chair in the bathroom and she would go in with me and just sit on it. The doctor said I needed to have her get comfortable with the chair first. Then after awhile she started to want to go to the potty. As motive to potty training I took her shopping and showed her all the nice things "big" girls get to wear. Then I went ahead and bought her big girl panties. Once she put them on she never wanted to wear a diaper again. It was hard there were alot of accidents but it is well worth it now.

Just have patience and don't push to hard. In time it will happen. Good luck!