Can someone please give me advice on potty training my 3yr old daughter? Nothing seems to be working.?

Answer 1

You have to know when the time is right. You cannot force her to use the potty if her bladder is not yet ready for it. Maybe she is not ready for it. Are you hurrying her up because of preschool? That will create battles if that is the reason.

Sometimes the sticker method works. I put a chart up in the bathroom and when my daughter went she was able to put a sticker on her posterboard in the bathroom.

Charmin toliet paper has free give aways (or they did a few years ago) that helped teach toliet training. It had charts and a book for her. Read potty books to her also.

If you are using a potty chair put it where she plays so that if she needs to go she can hurry up and make it. Then everyother day or so pull it towards the bathroom.

I also did the timing method. In the morning I would sit her on the potty and have her use it. I would run the faucet to "help" her go. Then every 2 hours I would sit her on it until she went. It was time consuming but it also helped.

Good luck and remember that no one graduates in diapers.

Answer 2

I started out by buying a simple white potty that looked the closest to a regular toilet. No bells n' whistles. Then I got her the "Feel N Learn" pull-ups which are great because when they are wet, they feel wet to the child. Then we had a "sticker" program. I would put her potty in front of the toilet and we would both go potty together. Every time she was successful, she got a sticker that she placed on the bathroom cupboard beside her potty chair. That way she was able to see the rewards of her efforts. And I also made a big effort to praise her really dramatically! Then we'd both empty her potty into the toilet and wave and say "bye-bye peepees/poopoos, thanks for coming out!" She'd sometimes just sit on the chair and "pretend" to potty just so she'd get a sticker! But she quickly figured out that she needed to produce visible results... It took about 2 months. Then I took her shopping and let her pick out her own underwear (Dora). She was so happy to wear them and very, very proud. She had a few accidents but I never made a big deal out of them to her. It got tricky when we went out because it's important that as soon as said she had to potty, we had to pull over right away. I was sure NOT to fall back on the pullups just because we were out. It just prolongs the process. She was able to wear underwear during the day and a pullup at night. Then, eventually she lost the nightime pullup and I woke her at 2am and took her to the potty - every night for about a week. And then that was that.

Every child is different tho - the key is to make a big fuss when they go and not make a fuss if they don't. Good luck with it.

Answer 3

Get a copy of the book "once upon a potty" and it's companion video. They have male and female variations of this book/video combination. Also, I saw a commercial on TV for a diaper that while absorbing the pee, it makes them feel the wetness, so that they might not be so happy to have that diaper on, you might want to look into that also. Bribe your kid. Also, keep a log of what you feed the child, and when. Compare that to a log of when she poops herself, and wets herself, there has to be a correlation between when you feed her, give her liquids, the time of day, if it's after an event such as a nap. This way, once you have a handle on when it's time, you can plop her butt on a toilet, and keep her there until she does her business. If you get her to watch the video and read the book to her on a regular basis, she will be excited to go to the potty. Good luck, don't give up, she will turn one day...

Answer 4

do you have any friends that have young kids around your daughters age? If you do than get your child her very own toilet and then tell her that it is hers. next let the friends kids use her potty chair and she will be so jealous "that"s MINE!" and she will use it so much that the other kids won't have a chance to. That was the only way that I got my son potty trained. I made it a game with the neighbor kids and my son did not want to share His potty chair. I did this untill it was automatic that Eric went to the bathroom on his own.

Answer 5

Have you tried a reward chart? I am having to potty train my 4 year old nephew, and this works pretty well. I drew a chart and divided it into hour segments. Then I remind him to use the potty every hour. He can earn three stars an hour. One star for pee, one for trying to have a bowel movement, and a third if he has a bowel movement. Of course most hours he only gets two stars, but it gives him something to look forward to, and he started going byhimself after 2-3 days.

Answer 6

Potty training is one of the hardest things to get children to understand. My mom used candy bars to get me to do it, and it worked with my two boys. My roommate is doing the same thing with her 3 year old, and he hasn't had mistake in months. Its all in positive speaking and bribs they seem to understand that the best and putting them on the real potty every hour for 5 mins at a time has helped. Try it! It worked for us. It will come sooner or later. Good Luck!

Answer 7

Of course do the reward thing. Stickers seemed to work with my little one. Once they have a certain amount of stickers, that means they get to pick out a toy from the store...
My daughter goes to daycare and their method really worked. On Friday afternoon they told me that she would come in Monday with no diaper on. They told me to bring many changes of clothes. So, Monday morning came and we put on big girl panties and headed to school. She only had one accident with this method. I think watching the other potty trained children in her class helped alot. I know it sounds crazy, but this really worked. She doesn't wear pull-ups at naptime at daycare, but she does at home. I allow her to take a longer nap than they do, and she also wears a pull up at night.

Oh, we also had a "panty party" when she was potty trained. We went all out with cupcakes, ice cream, streamers, and her female family members were invited. They all brought her new, cute panties wrapped up.

Answer 8

Two words. Lay off. She will not go to college pooing in her pants. Lately it seems like wayyy too much attention is given to kids, and too many "rewards" given for doing something that naturally has its own rewards. Eventually she will get a clue, until then, just be really matter-of-fact about the whole thing. Unless you are really into microparenting her every move, then by all means, go out and get a bunch of stickers and charts and prizes and PopTarts...oh, and aren't you supposed to call it "toilet teaching" to be p.c.? Good luck--she will do FINE if you leave her alone (says the mom of 4)

Answer 9

I am working on this one currently. Have your daughter pick out her own special seat whether it is blues clues or Elmo. Every time my son goes potty, we run and put a sticker on a piece of paper on the refrigerator. He gets so excited every time he gets to do that. During the day, he walks around in a T-shirt and big boys underwear. If we put shorts on him, he pees. nite nite time is still diapers. Pull ups if you go somewhere. It is working so far for us...

Answer 10

take her to the sticker store. my son is 22 mos and he just began training and we got stickers and the only way he'll sit on his chair is to stick stickers allllll over the place. then when the stickers are gone he wants up but the first thing is to get them to sit on the chair. i'm a firm believer in bribery. get a bag full of her faves and reward her for every minute goes on the timer she sits there.....i think constant rewards for sitting is just as important as going potty.