Suggestions on Potty Training (LIttle GIrl)?

Question

I am in the process of potty training my daughter who will be 3 in Oct. She enjoys going and sitting on the potty but doesn't actually use it even though she says she does. She wants to wear big girl panties like her sisters but I tell her she has to start going in the potty to be able to wear them. She has done it twice at daycare but won't at home. If anyone has any suggestions on the best way to help her along, please let me know.

Answer 1

Have her wear big girls underwear like her sisters! They're also great role models. Make sure that you get plastic pants, you don't want to have to wash the carpet too. Summer's the best time to try - you can buy shorts a-plenty at rummage sales, usually 25-50 cents a piece.

Make sure that you're catching her in time. Possibly you're getting her too late. If her pull up is wet, and she already went, she's not going to have to go again.

I always bought my girls little trinkets like rings, bracelets, etc that I found at rummage sales for when they went poop. Made them more apt to try.

I also kept a piece of paper tacked to the back of the bathroom door. Bought a lot of little stickers - disney princess, etc. Then she can admire her favorite characters while she's trying.

It's good that daycare is having her try too.

Also, no matter what - use positive reinforcement. The more you make her feel like it was an accident, the more prone she's not going to try, and hide it instead. Just make sure that you remind her that she's a big girl, she's trying very hard, and you're proud of her.

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Answer 3

I completely sympathize! I took my daughter to the pediatrician at this exact same age for exactly what you're describing. He practically rolled his eyes and told me I was making too big of a deal. He explained that it was a power struggle that I could not win and that if I would just step back and leave it alone, it WOULD happen. I thought he was nuts because it was a big deal. But I backed off because I had tried everything else. And sure enough, she potty's like a pro now. I keep a potty in her room so she doesn't have to interrupt playing to find the potty. When she decided she was ready, that was it. Never an accident or slip-up. We didn't do that little potty party or anything. She decided she was ready and that was it. My ped also recommended a play date the same age to come and use her potty as inspiration but it never came to that. Good Luck! and Relax!

Answer 4

If she really wants to wear big girl panties let her. There will be lots of laundry, but I assure you it will be about a week of soiled sheets and clothes and she'll get into the habit of going. Just remind her every fifteen or twenty minutes to go. Once she goes you can wait a little longer between reminders.

You could also try the bubble method. It worked for my kids. I would sit them on the toilet and blow bubbles for them to pop while they were on the potty. Eventually they learned how to use the toilet. The only time we would blow bubbles is in the bathroom or if they were on the potty.

I'm also listing the link for the DVD Once Upon a Potty. If you scroll down you will see the Once Upon a Potty book for a girl. My boys loved this book, it's silly. You can find it at most department stores like target and walmart too, if you do not want to order it online.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Pediatricians say there are two things not to get into battles over and one is feedings and two is potty training. And negative responses is a sure-fire way to ensure failure in potty training. They say you should sit them on the toilet and if they do something, great; if they don't do something; great; if they just sit there and are comfortable, praise them anyway even if they don't do anything; if they don't want to sit on the toilet, just (happily) say "ok" and suggest trying next time, but there should never be any negative or mean responses and shouldn't be punishments for not doing their business.

I would have her wear big-girl undies at home on weekends and she will realize that she has to use the bathroom if she keeps having accidents. Again, no negative responses, but suggestions like, "if you could make it to the bathroom, you big-girl undies would still be clean, maybe next time you'll make it" or "you can wear big girl undies and that means you need to use the toilet to go potty". But no punishments if she doesn't make it.

My wife and I saw Nanny 911 and there was an episode to encourage potty training as well as good behavior. Get a jar and some marbles. Everytime any child does good, they get a marble in the jar. At the end of the week, they get a little surprise for a certain number of marbles (ie. 10 marbles = getting ice cream; 15 marbles = day at the beach, etc.) This one little girl wouldn't even sit on the toilet. The nanny got her to sit there, and though she didn't do anything, gave her a marble for trying. By the end of the week, the little girl finally pee'd in the toilet and got 3 marbles for peeing in the toilet. It worked.

Good Luck.

Answer 6

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I am in the process of potty training my daughter who will be 3 in Oct. She enjoys going and sitting on the potty but doesn't actually use it even though she says she does. She wants to wear big girl panties like her sisters but I tell her she has to start going in the potty to be able to...

Answer 7

I have a daughter who is 2 now and been potty trained since 11 months when she started walking. You have to be on her all the time asking her if she needs to potty. Give about 30 minutes after each meal and every cup of water that you give her. With my daughter it was hard because she couldn't talk or anything but only I understood what she would tell me. But you have to be asking her because she won't go and tell you. EXAMPLE: When she pees or poops in her pamper tell her in so many ways so that she can understand " You do pee in the pooty. The potty is for pee. You don't do pee in your potty. You do pee in the potty" and point to the potty so she can see. That's how I did it.

Answer 8

The method I have used on both of my potty aged children is the timer method. You start out putting your child on the potty every 20 minutes, and encourage them to sit until they go! Congratulate them. Gradually stretch the time out to an hour or so. The timer could be in use for some time after it reach 40 or so minutes, but eventually your child will tire of your reminders and go on her own.

We also told our girl that she got to go to school if she potty trained, and she did get to go to 3yo preschool. Our little boy just didn't like being told what to do.

Oh, and your little girl won't be wearing a diaper in college...so don't sweat it.
Good Luck.

Answer 9

Put her in the underwear anyway. Ask her at least once an hour if she has to go...even if she says no, take her in the bathroom anyway. Let her sit there for ten minutes. If she has to go, she'll go. And if she does go, give her a reward. It took me four days of that process to get my daughter potty-trained when she was 3 years and 3 months old. Since then, I've had no problems with her using the toilet.

Answer 10

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