Potty Training Woes - Oak Park,MI

http://3daypottytraining.com/

This is a great program. My oldest trained in 3 days, youngest in 11. But we were done. Yes there are accidents here and there, but they know what to do. And this is for nighttime too! I really buy into her philosophy and it does work! Its $24 for the ebook, and you have access to online help too - which I used with 2nd child as she took longer to train. Super helpful and encouraging!

Best wishes. She's the perfect age for potty training and you will not regret doing this before the baby arrives!!!!! :)

My guy trained at her age so it can be done. Toss the pull-ups, use cloth training pants (you can use plastic pants over them), but do get rid of the pull-ups. They are actually pull-on diapers, so your daughter feels comfy going in them...kids are not dumb!

Have her sit at least every hour, watch for signs she's ready to go, especially right after she's been sitting and typically goes, and you get her to the potty fast! What she needs is to learn to recognize the feeling of needing to go and then using the potty, and right now the responsibility is on you to show her. Also do let her see you going to the bathroom, often children want to imitate what they see us do and this is a good way to model the behavior you want her to follow.

Know that with a new sister coming there's every chance your daughter may regress once the baby's born, it's very common. So you may wind up doing this all over again...the "experts" recommend waiting and training a few months after the birth of a new addition to the family to avoid potty training regression.

Hope it all goes well : )

We did potty boot camp this past weekend and had to make some adjustments. We did 20 min on the potty 10 min off, but she would get up from the potty and go pee in the living room. Well part of the boot camp has you practice taking them into the potty pulling down the pants, sitting down getting up pull up pants and leave and you do this 10 times in a row, and practice. Well she hated the practice sessions, so I had her stay in one spot and had the plastic potty with me and when I saw her start to pee I made her sit down and then made a huge deal that she went on the potty. She was scared to death that her pee came out of her like that.

We have not had an accidents since then and she even tells us now when she has to go potty. Now this was really too easy and I am still waiting for the other shoe to drop on me. Her sister was never this easy, but I once I figured out that she was scared of her pee coming out like that and I talked her through the next several pees and reassured her that it was just fine, she did fantastic.

hi there,
our little girl was good with everything except the potty training she was very stubborn but we didnt have her on routine bc my husband was in school we both work etc but finally oh finally she is only in a pullup at night and i think we can even do w/o that. but the thing is, i think once we did get a routine and she was ready she finally turned the corner. we tried giving her hugs kisses treats presents everything but she would still go in her (sometimes we would tell her to get in potty and she would stand there right next to the potty and go in her pull up) pull up so we tried putting her underwear on thinking that discomfort of being wet woudl stop it, no it didnt so i say just stick to your routine and keep trying and it will happen when she is ready. i just thank god that that was our only problem or hard thing with her! good luck with the new little one :)

She is getting it! If she it going shortly after being removed from the potty, then she is getting it! it takes them time to learn how to control it and put it in the potty.

Just keep at it. Throw away the pull ups! Let her run naked, get her to the toilet, stay positive and she will get there.

She probably isn't ready. All kids vary in age as to when they are ready to potty train. Some can be as young as 18 months, while others are almost 4 before they are fully trained. I would recommend taking a step back and seeing if she is exhibiting the signs that she is ready to be potty trained. I know it can be frustrating having 2 in diapers at the same time, but she just may need a little more time before she is able to be potty trained.

If she is ready, the best thing you can do is ditch the pull-ups except for nap or bedtime. Other than that, let her go bare-bottomed or in a cloth pull-up or diaper. Cloth is much less absorbent so they feel that wetness on them and hate it, unlike pull-ups or diapers which pull the fluids away from the skin. Even the "cool alert" and whatnot does not really help train them . It may sound mean, but it has worked for all 5 of my boys (my youngest being 21 months and almost fully trained), my mom's 2 kids, my grandmother's 8.......

Also, watch her closely. Usually it is 15-60 minutes after they eat or drink that they will need to use the bathroom. Try to time her for a day or two so you know her general time frame and start there. For example, if she typically pees 20 minutes after drinking, sit her down at 15 minutes, and wait. the rewards chart helps a lot of children also. Remember to always encourage her, and don't show any disappointment or frustration when it doesn't happen. Kids can pick up on this, and become fearful of accidents, which only slows the process down further.