Potty Training - Wahiawa,HI

She might have a bladder but it is probably the next reason.

She is not trained! You are not done ! Do not let your guard down! She wants the same attention she got when she was in active training. Start over!
This is advice from a previous post.

Don't waste your money on pull-ups. They are no better than diapers. Take her to buy regular panties. When she wets it will send a clear message to her because it will run down her legs. I have never seen a kid not care about it.

Potty training off and on never works. She is either in training or she is not. If she is training, it means that she will need to be introduced to public restrooms also. In other words, if you are going to the store or out to eat, do not put her in a diaper for a few hours for convenience. As soon as you get to your destination, the first place you need to visit is the bathroom. That way, she will know that there is one available giving her no excuse to go in her pants.

Some (most in my experience) kids will not train on a potty chair. Put her on the regular toilet. Purchase an insert to make the hole smaller if she feels insecure. Supply a stool so that she can climb up on her own. Let her get her own toilet paper and teach her how to wipe herself. Let her try to pull up her own panties and offer assistance if she needs it. Let her flush the toilet when she is done and wave goodbye. Kids love to flush the toilet. Handwashing is next and should be a ritual by the way. Some kids like a handwashing song. The key here is to make going to the bathroom fun!

She might like this activity so much that she will drive you nuts, but hang in there. The initial excitement will wear off in time.

I would let her do all of the steps whether she is successful or not. Add something special when she is successful like a sticker or something. Give her a favorite treat for a successful poop!

Hold all liquids for at least an hour before bedtime. She will more than likely stay dry through the night. Get a plastic mattress liner for her bed just in case.

Good luck and don't worry. Eventually your daughter will potty train.

D.

Maybe have a sticker chart where five stickers (five succesful potty trips) equals a special bedtime story with mommy only or something like that?

Dear L.,

Forget about that the accidents are to get your attention. Just get on with paying attention to the times that she needs for you to remind her that it is bathroom time, and go there with her. She truly will love that time with you, and she truly needs you then too. Just think that it may seem to a three year old that the adult toilets are pretty high up and hard to get to and stay on.

Lots of time 3 year olds regress in their toilet training and they get back to it sooner or later, just be sure to get her to those dance classes and do not let the potty problem be such a big deal. She can do it and will do it, but promising something a long time away just does not work. They are little people and do not understand the passage of time the way that we do.
C. N.

What I do with my 3 yr old son is make up a chart and when he uses the potty or tells me he has to go he gets to put a sticker on the chart. I keep it in the bathroom along with a time for potty book I bought for him. He really seems to respond to that. Although we do have our days where he still wont want to go. But for the most part he is doing really well.

When my daughter turned two I had her throw all her diapers in the trash, and did not put one on her ever after that. She had consant accidents for about two or three weeks, I just dealt with the inconvevient messes, and then she just suddenly got it! I guess because she no longer had the safety of the pull-ups to fall back on she was forced to either get used to using the toilet or get wet and gross all the time.