Okay I am pertty sure she is ready. She is telling me when to change her diaper, she will even say pee pee and want to go to the bathroom. But she NEVER goes. She sits on the potty for about 10 secs, then ask for tissue, or to brush her teeth (I started that so she would sit on the potty a little longer). But nothing... She just turnned two today, and has been doing this for about 4 mths now, and still nothing.. Please help,,, is she to young? My grandmother suggested making her sit on the potty till she gose, but that seems so hars. Any help
Please don't force her! It will piss her off and she will hate the potty. Just let her lead you. That is the best way. 2 is still pretty young. At least she knows what's going on down there. Maybe to entice her, let her pick out her own pretty big girl panties. Have you tried putting her on the potty and reading a book to her? It lets her kinda forget that she "has" to pee there and it just flows! I let Virginia (almost 22 months) run around w/o a diaper on for a while everyday and she usually makes it to the potty. But if I were to put panties on her, she would just pee her pants. Try letting her be without a diaper or pants on...and if she pees in the floor, she will be able to see what happens. When she is ready, she'll do it. Don't sweat it. She won't wear depends in high school!
I know it's frustrating, and you feel like they'll never be out of diapers. It's a hassle trying to chase them down and when they fight you every step of the way, well, it's not any fun! Believe me, I have 18 month old twins who fight me at almost every diaper change and when you change them one after another, you feel ready to collapse on the floor! I remember chasing after my oldest son too to change his diaper. I haven't even begun to introduce the potty to my twins, and as crazy as it is trying to tackle them down for a diaper change, I'm in no rush really. The time flies by so fast as it is. With my oldest son, he was a little over 2.5 years old when he was potty trained, which I guess isn't too bad. Hugs.
2 is pretty young. If she is happy to sit for a minute, let it go at that. One thing I tried with my youngest was to get her some "special" panties. in her case Dora the Explorer. She could wear them as soon as she was ready to learn to go potty. Don't put any pressure on her, that will make it harder, just tell her they are there when she's ready. Its really something they have to want to do, you just can't make someone go pee. Mine all were potty trained at different ages, you really have to take your cues from them. IMO if you make her sit there against her will it will just be a huge power struggle and its her body so she will win.
My son is going to be 3 next month and still has diapers. I try every day to get him on the potty. He's naked a lot and tells me when he has to go etc...Hopefully in the next year he'll make it to the potty
This trick works almost all the time!! Run the water either in the sink or bathtub as you're sitting her on the potty. You could even drip some warm water on her fingers while she's sitting there. My son wasn't potty trained until he was over 3, and that's OK, 'cause he knew it meant he was growing up and he was a little scared about that. For six months after he was trained he sometimes would ask me to run the water cause the sound helped him go!! Definitely offer a reward when she goes, so she knows that while growing up this way means you won't be wiping her butt anymore you will be letting her do something that you didn't before, like putting stickers on a poster or something like that. Good Luck! Becca
I don't believe in rewarding a child for something that they should naturaly do. I think this way because kids should do things for the sake of doing them and not for the treat. He should go potty cuz he's ready and wants to and not because I will give him something. ( not knockin your suggestion seriously to each his own that is the beauty of everyone parenting different) Same gose for the rest of his life...I want him to be able to reward himself and not be looking for external awards for doing things he should do anyways.
I always just give lots of praise when Virginia pees in the potty. Like, "yay!! You're such a big girl!!" And then we dance around. Then, she dumps the pee/poop in the big toilet, flushes it, and waves bye-bye!
hehe...just now he was eating dinner and was like i need a diaper mommie I was like ohh no I cant find one hurry you gotta get to the potty! and he went! haha...then I was all excited and danced for him and we had a blast over it woohoo (exaduration) anyways I'll have to try that more often.
We introduced the potty at about 18 months. But it was just there, a place to sit while you brush your teeth and stuff like that. Gradually we started sitting him on it naked at times. But no pressure. When he turned 2 I took a week off work and we worked on going potty. I would take him about every hour. When he peed he got a sticker. If he pooped he got two stickers. It only took a couple of months until he was going in the potty most of the time. He is now 28 months old. He is mostly dry in the daytime and poops in the potty 3 out of 4 times he poops. He's no where near ready for night time dryness. He wears cloth training pants in the daytime and cloth diapers at night. For a long time he would save his poopy until the nighttime diaper was on. Within 15 minutes of putting the diaper on he needed a new one. But now he is proud of using the potty for that too. We went on vacation a couple of months ago. The stickers went away while we were gone. They were great to get things started in the beginning, but we don't use them any more. Kathi
