I'm potty training my daughter. she will use the potty, but she won't tell me when she has to go.?

Question

I ask her and she always says no. but then when i take her she goes. how can i help her learn to tell me when she has to use the potty?

Answer 1

I figured out what was my daughters motivators. The thing that would get them to go to the bathroom and tell me they had to go. My oldest would do anything to get a chance to go out to the ice cream truck. So for the first 2 days anytime she told me she had to go, she would get an ice cream drawn on the dry erase board. By day 2 she had 3, so the next day she had to have 5 ice creams. Then when she had the peeing part down, we worked on the "stinky" as they call it. She had to go stinky in the potty to get an ice cream truck. She still loves to go get ice cream from the truck, but she is fully potty trained. My middle girl loves praise. She will do anthing for praise and god forbid should i scold her for something. She will cry and try harder next time.

Answer 2

Never ask a child or an old person a question like that, they will always say no. Just start going at regular intervals and after certain things like meals and naps and such then she will start going at the right times out of habit.
Let her run around with out a diaper or in training pants so that you will be able to tell better when she has gone or is going. Put the trainingg potty in the living room so she can do it all by herself.

Answer 3

Here it is- it has worked for my 2 kids,and others after I tell them........

1. get m and m's handy
2. get a small potty chair
3. get a couple books about potty
4. you need to be home for about 4-5 days straight
5. now you can start. let them run around bare-but
6. Set the timer for 1/2 hour. Tell him/her to sit on the potty for 5 min. (read them a book in the mean time if it's to long for them.) If they go, give lots and lots of praise!!! I mean go crazy!! Give them about 3 m and m's.
7. Set the timer for 1/2 hour
8. Avoid asking the question "you got to go potty?'
9. Timer goes off- ok! What does that mean junior? Time to go potty again he or she would say, or you say it if they don't
10. repeat process all day long. If they go # 2 in the potty, reward with a handful of m and m's. They are very colorful and kids love them!!

11. Praise praise praise. I do spank my kids for behavior problems such as lying, disobedience, and bad attitudes, but never for having an accident. If there is an accident, clean it up queitly, and don't say much at all. Remind them it's ok, but try to make it in the potty next time, or in your own words.

Good luck!!! Hope this helps you. My 2 year old girl was potty-trained in one day with the method. Took my 2 1/2 year old son a week. Leave pull-ups on them at night just in case.
p.s. if this doen't work at all, try again in a few months.

Answer 4

My daughter is 2-1/2 and potty training too. We went through the exact same thing. If we ask our daughter if she needs to go, she always says no. We don't give her a choice. We say, "Come on, let's go potty". Every time she had already wet her pull up, I would remind her to "come tell mommy or daddy when you need to potty. She has just recently started telling us when she needs to go. Potty training takes lots and lots of patience. She will get it in her own time. Be patient.

Answer 5

Most kids actually do that. They will hold it until they can't hold it anymore too. Give her an insentive. Like a piece of candy if she does tell you and does use the potty. Also give her a long time big goal to enforce too. Positive reinforcement! I told my son if he became night and day time potty trained he could go camping with my sister and brother in law and it was exactly two days later he was completely potty trained.

Answer 6

When you are taking her to the potty, ask her "do you need to go potty? Tell mommy!!" say this every time so that she begins to make the connection that it's important that she lets you know. And make a really big deal about it when she does finally tell you. It takes time for them to put it all together - she'll get it!! Good luck!! : )

Answer 7

Just keep doing what you are doing and put her on the potty every hour or so. Eventually she will learn to understand the sensation of needing to pee, and she'll tell you when she has to go. But it will take time, maybe a few weeks or more, so be patient. Good luck!

Answer 8

i stressed myself out so bad when i was potty training my middle son. For the longest time I had to remind him to go to the potty all of the time. I had a lot of messes to clean up. If you havent already don't let her wear diapers or the pull ups cause that just gives them an excuse to wet themselves. It is a dirty job but you have to put her in regular panties so that she can feel it. All of a sudden one day she will just start going on her own. Don't give up it will happen.

Answer 9

Ah, the riddle that is the stubborn child. All you can do is learn how to be observant to your childs body language. While potty training you may have to keep her in sight for hours at a time, until she starts taking it seriously.

Answer 10

When you do find that she goes potty on the toilet make a big deal of it with a reward. My sister-in-law did the potty dance. After each of her kids successfully did their business on the toilet she would dance with them and sing ......."(insert kid's name) went to potty .......yeah" and they would throw their arms in the air and dance as a celebration.
Do that or a find a small toy, sticker, etc...to use as a reward each time that is successful so that your daughter will want to remind you when she really has to go...knowing a reward is coming....positive reinforcement works everytime.