My 2yr old daughter won't use the potty, but knows how- any suggestions?

Question

She's used it before- trainer seat and the little potty, but refuses to try and use it regularly. She'll tell me when she has a pee/poopy pull-up, but won't sit in time. Tried panties and at 1st she hated to soil them, but now she doesn't care. She'll also tell me she wants to sit on the potty or it's her turn (if I'm on it), but as soon as she gets on it she tells me that "my all done on the potty". I don't get it. Unfortunately she's as stubborn as I am, so this won't be an easy or pretty potty training time. Just trying to find different ways or incentives to her wanting to use it regularly. She wakes up dry now, but she'll hold it if I sit her on the potty. Even when she sits on her little potty while watching a movie, she'll still hold it until she stands up (not necessarilly covered either). Also tried rewards- snacks, stickers, trips, little toys, etc, but nothing. Anyone else's kid this fiesty?

Answer 1

Make it fun.....put something by the potty for her to look at or play with while she's sitting there....

Answer 2

My little girl is 2 and 4 months. She was the same - liked sitting on the potty from 18 months old but never wanted to do anything. One day (about 6 weeks ago) I just decided to go for it. Sent her to nursery with knickers and spare clothes. The first day she had 7 accidents! The 2nd day she had none. Cracked weeing straight away but keep keeps pooing in her knickers. I was getting really frustrated and found myself telling her she was naughty. She just kept getting upset. We now have a game where I tell her all through her poo what a good girl she is and I rub her back as she says it makes her tummy hurt. When she's done we do a dance and a song and then wave bye bye to the pooh down the toilet! Someone told me the best advice ever - if you react, whether good or bad, they just want the attention. At this age the only 100% attention they get is all to do with using the potty or toilet. The suggestion was only react if its done right. If it's an accident just clean up and make no fuss. Took us 2/3 weeks or pain, but I think we;re finally there.

Answer 3

My daughter went through the same thing! She was using her potty fine by the time she was a year old. Suddenly she just refused! Then at almost a year and a half she went to the regular toilet all on her own without any coaxing. I don't know why she did this but she is also very, very stubborn (she's 11 now and she's still incredibly stubborn about everything!), I think she just wanted to do it in her own time because once she started using the bathroom she never even had an accident -even in bed!

I wish i had a solution for you.
Maybe if your little one is stubborn like this you could use reverse psychology?

Best of luck!!!

Answer 4

Maybe she just isn't ready for it. Don't push the issue too much or there will be resentment there. My son is extremely stubborn but I have to say that he was easy to potty train. He was also going to daycare a few days a week and I told them that I was potty training and not putting him in diapers or pullups. I think that being around other kids who were using the potty influenced him somewhat to use the toilet. I stopped putting him in diapers and pulls up though. Even if we went out somewhere. If he peed or pooped in his pants then he had to sit like that till I could get him cleaned up. It got to the point where he told me "I need to use the potty" Potty training can be tough.

Answer 5

My daughter will be 3 in April and he or she would do an same component yours would... bypass some days in the potty and then bypass decrease back to diapers. Then 2 days previously thanksgiving she got here to me and suggested she did not favor a diaper she had to apply the potty. and provided that then shes been diaper free. purchase her a personality rest room seat and attempt a decal chart. My daughter were given so enthusiastic about putting dinosaur stickers on a poster through the rest room. She also does no longer positioned on underclothes before each little thing she would pee in them. I examine on line someplace that they can sense like diapers too and pullups are dedinetly a twin of diapers yet are a lot less complicated for them. do not push her she will be able to inform you at the same time as shes waiting

Answer 6

I would just leave her in pull-ups...when she's sick of wet/dirty pants, she might want to give the potty a chance.

I had my son potty-trained before he was 3 1/2--he had the idea around his 3rd birthday but got stubborn, so I left him alone. After that, it used to be he'd pee in the potty, but dump in his pull-ups. Then he got the stomach flu, and his doctor said expect diarrhea...and I was NOT looking forward to that. But guess what? That's when he decided that he was going to dump in his potty--and he's been doing it ever since. And it's been just over a year now!

Funny thing was, he was staying dry at night first, and he hasn't wet the bed that I can remember.

Answer 7

my daughter would not potty untill she was 3 yrs it took a lot to convience her too........................she had boath of us to take stuborness after , we started when she was 20 months and thought she would never get it right i have learned that this behavior is normal have you tried:
verbal rewards, making her sit untill she goes and then telling her how good she was the rewards thing only works well if the treet is only for pottying like a sucker or sticker but not to give it at any other time she nows that she will go on a trip even to the store because you have to its not something yoou can only do when she pottys it need to be some thing just for her and the same thing every time we made a sticker chart with simley and stars she got smilley for pottying and star for boath pottying and washing hands after but my daughter has a love for stickers and the chart she could show off to grand parrents and daddy it made her feel special or accomplished we still need to work on flushing but at least its in the pot ......................good luck and hope it helps

Answer 8

Put her back in diapers and don't mention the potty anymore. It's becoming a control issue for her. She's power struggling. Deal with that first and then wait for her to initiate potty training again.

Use psychology if you have to. "Since you don't want to be a big girl, we're putting the Pullups away for a while. You get to wear di-di's again, just like a baby!" Let her interact with other potty trained toddlers and praise them in front of her each time one of them goes to the bathroom.

Answer 9

Try putting up a chart for when she does go, and get stickers. And when she does go put a sticker on that day. That will encourage her to use it. If not get her books on potty training and read it to her while she is sitting on it. She will like the idea of the stickers.

Answer 10

i have the same problem my Lil girl was completely trained. now she will not go on the potty. i have also tried everything under the sun and she still refuses. i think it had to do with the fact i was pregnant and she was not getting enough attention and this was a way to get it. I'm not sure about that though. i am going to ask her pediatrician next week.

Answer 11

Sounds a lot like my daughter!! She will sit for awhile... Might even use it but refuses to tell me when she has to go and sometimes won't sit at all. Have you tried the potty party? I think that's my next step.