We Started Potty Training today............HELP!!!!

I'm going through the same thing, but with a boy. If you go out put a pullup on her. That way if she goes it won't be all over her or you. I read something a lady did to help potty train her grandson. She said she took him to the lake on a warm day, with a cool breeze. She dressed him in underware & clothes. When he peed himself he didn't like the feel of the being wet & having cool air blowing at him. It worked for her. I haven't tried it yet. My mother-in-law suggested for me to give my daughter a treat when she was sitting on the toilet. Maybe find something that will keep her intrest for potty time. that way she will have something to keep her busy & she might go potty without realizing what she's doing. I hope this helps.

hang in there.. you are totally doing it all right, and she is doing as she knows.. the more often you put her on the potty, she will get the hang of it.. i would do it every 15 minutes...~and yup.. the going out thing is tuff.. and so you prob wont go out a lot..to start.. but its soo worth the dedication!@!~really really~if you do go, no liquids for quite a while before you leave and potty.. ALLL the time.. everywhere!!~
hang in there!~ I did it just the same way with all three!~:)

My son started with potty training a month after he turned 2. For the first month or so he still wore a pull-up (until he would consistently keep it dry. We just sat on the potty a lot and to motivate him to sit there he got juice on the potty (only while sitting on the potty). Gave him ammunition to go so plenty of opportunity for praise when he went on the potty. He was in underwear within a month. I still put him in a pull-up when we were out because I didn't want to have to deal with accidents when out and it worked out really well for us. We are home quite a bit anyway, but didn't stay home more just for that. That's what worked for us. Best wishes to you!

Hi C.,

Sounds like a good start for you and your daughter. They say that potty training girls is faster than potty training boys.

I think that when you go out, she should wear a pull up or diaper and ask her to tell you when she needs to go to the bathroom.

This is a process and it will take some time. So, don't freak out if she has some accidents. What worked for me was leaving the potty in the living room where my son played and watched TV. Sometimes he would sit there for a long time and not do anything, but with time he learned.

So, be patient, praise her a lot and give her some stickers for reward.

Good luck to you!!!

Alina

I started with my daughter when she was 21 months because we were on vacation in the car and she would consistently have dry pants (pull-ups) and want to go to the bathroom with me whenever we'd stop. I took that as a good sign. However, we backed off a bit until she was 23 months once we got home because we were having the same sort of experience - she'd be naked or in underwear and not care when she'd pee on the floor or in her pants. Until she started caring that she was wet, it was sort of a lost cause... we could talk and talk, but it didn't change anything. And forcing her to sit on the toilet when we thought she needed to just led to a power struggle. She's almost 28 months now and has been potty trained in underwear 100% for about a month. Prior to that, she'd be fine while home wiht us for days at a time, but then never tell her babysitters, grandparents, etc when she'd have to go, have an accident and then be upset.

I guess what I'm saying is maybe your daughter just isn't quite ready yet if she's not phased by the accidents? I know I've heard of people just spending a couple days or a week potty-training like this, but I've also mostly heard it with kids who are closer to 3.

I agree that she may just not be ready and while you can certainly work with her on it for the next few weeks or even months before eventually getting success, you could also wait a bit until she is fully ready. I've a daughter and son and both showed the natural interest at 18 mos so we encouraged it by reading potty stories, letting them come in with us, having them sit (instant reward like a raisin or m&m), having them get into a routine of going before bathtime, etc. Encouraged, but never pushed them and they both had occasional success, but no interest in fully being trained. And so went a few months -

Before both turned 2 and a half, they suddenly had huge interest so we did the instant rewards, set up a sticker chart for a major celebration and went straight to underwear for 2 days. Never used pull-ups. Both trained in that day or so, including for naps, bedtime and leaving the house.

Good luck!

I waited until it was summer (nice and warm outside, don't need to wear a lot of clothes, etc.), just after my son turned 3 (probably not what you wanted to hear....oh well). Anyway, I put my son in his bathing suit one day (no swim diaper...just the bathing suit), and he absolutely HATED how it felt when he peed, and the pee ran down his legs. I told him that if he had to go potty, he needed to tell me, and that I would put him on the potty. Well, he had a few accidents over 2 or 3 days, and then he was trained! It was a piece of cake.

To me, it shoulds like your daughter just isn't ready. When they are ready, it is really easy and really quick.

Good Luck!

Have a tea party and tell her whatever she pours she must drink. There will be plenty of opportunities to practice! Good luck I did this w/ my twins and it took 2 days.

Hi C.,

It sounds like your daughter isn't quite ready to be trained. Has she been showing signs that she is ready? Like not wanting to be in wet or poopy diapers, knowing that she is ready to go(like hiding to poop), or wanting to imitate you on the potty? Is she able to pull her pull up up and down by herself? If they aren't ready, it could take many months for them to actually get it, no matter how bright they are. I know a little boy that could read before 3, but wasn't trained until 3.5 :). I would suggest trying everyday at a certain time, but don't push it too hard if it's not working. When I trained my daughter, we worked on training everyday after naptime, but our mornings were free. Also, she hated having accidents in her new big girl panties, so it took her about a month at 32 months. I have had a few pediatricians tell me that the average age of potty training is 30 months, no matter when you start.

If she is ready, stickers as a reward worked for us with our daughter. My son who is 27 months, and working on training slowly, doesn't seem to be as responsive to them.

GOod luck!

J.

i put on underpants under the pull up that way she knew she peed and she hated being wet the pull ups hold way to much pee and are way to comfortable for them once i started with the underpants she trained quickly

She may not quite be ready yet. We had the potty seat out from the time my daughter was 18 months, but only had her sit on it when she wanted to. I waited until she was a little more than 2-1/2 to activly train, and basically told her one morning "today you get to wear big girl undies and start using the potty". I set a timer to ring every 10 minutes and when it did, I'd ASK her "do you have to go potty?" That way she could think about the feeling of HAVING TO GO, not the feeling of going. She got a jelly bean everytime she had success.

The first day we crashed and burned, but the next day she got the hang of it and by day 3 or 4 she was trained. I did NOT use pull-ups, as they don't make them feel wet enough, but I used traditional training pants with plastic pants over them. And no, we didn't go out for those first 3 days. On day 4 we went to a birthday party and I brought diapers and extra pants. She had an accident, so we put a diaper on her and changed her pants and didn't make a big deal of it. The following day was Easter and we were at my brother's. She was scared to go potty on a different toilet potty seat, but when I told her to just go in her diaper that it was okay, she insisted on going on the potty, so we mastered her fear of a new toilet too.

We also went out the following week and made a big deal about picking out princess underwear and all that. She's never had an accident since and has never wet her bed. I think waiting until she was a little older and never making a deal out of it helped a lot. I'm going to try this method with my son, too. He just turned 3 and shows very limited interest, but neither did my daughter. We have a new baby coming in early July, so that will probably thwart some of my efforts. I'll tell you though, waiting and having it done in days is WAY better than having it drag out for weeks!

Oh, and don't forget the "happy dance" every time there is success!!

I finally finally finally have achieved complete potty-training w/my son. I did the potty party thing a year ago, which was great, but then he relapsed. I tried bribes, "big boy", everything. One problem was we had three diff people between me, my husband and grampa w/different rules.

What finally worked? My sis-in-law finally convinced me to bite the bullet and take away ALL diapers and pullups. None for daddy, none for grampa, none. And put plastic pants over the underwear. This will not only minimize leakage, but will maximize how wet and uncomfortable the child is!

That is the key! They do NOT like sitting around in wet squishy underwear. My son tried to be stubborn for a while but eventually just couldn't stand the squish. And yes there were messes. I never scolded him for not using the potty, but reminded him how comfortable dry pants are and that we had to stop playing to change his pants. After about two weeks, we are THERE!.

If you have to, cover everything with plastic. But do not give her the comfort of pullups, even those that are supposed to let them "feel the wet". It just doesn't work. They need to feel squishy icky wet! Good luck!