How can I get my girl to use her potty???

Question

I have tried every thing to get my two and half year old girl to use the potty, rewards, bribes you name it but she just doesn't seem to get it. We have been working on this toilet training now for four months and have had little progress... anybody out there have any suggestions?

Answer 1

It is difficult. I remember my youngest had a potty seat and she took out the potty and got the seat wedged over her head.. 6 hours loads of grease treacle.. butter.. marg.. oils.. and finally a little saw.. we got it off.. she even fell asleep with it on her neck.. aww what a shame.. i felt so sorry for her. Once she relaxed we pulled it of.. that was the days of marriage.. lol gosh i could tell you some stories.. but you will have your own soon.. just let her do it in her own time.. she wil.

Answer 2

I have just emailed another person this answers, maybe it could help you it helped me and my son who is 3, I never worried about the potty i feel you get that completed only then to have to train on the toilet, so i trained my son on the toilet less stress for you and her, I know what i'm going to say some people wouldn't agree but if my son wanted to come into the toilet with me id let him yes not ideal but through him watching me it has not made him scared of that big scary thing!!! I tried to make it a fun time to go to the toilet letting him jump up on his step praising him loads, then when he needed a number 2 i sat him on the toilet telling him that it was the big boys toilet how clever he was, and to start off with id gently hold his hands so he begun to feel safe sitting on there then eventually i would move out of the toilet leaving him on his own to finish giving him lots of praise again, sorry long winded, hope this may work

Answer 3

She might not be ready. Let her wait a little longer. This has to be non-stressful for her. I remember the story of a mom of multiples, she put all the children on potty chairs and the first one to pee in the potty got an m&m, then all the others did it and they got one also. There is nothing like peer pressure. My oldest girl fought against being potty trained (her younger sisters were still in diapers). So I stripped her - she only wore a shirt. Anytime I thought she might have to go I got her to sit on the potty. We didn't go anywhere. But when she went potty on her potty she got to draw an ice cream cone on a dry erase board. When it was time for the ice cream truck to come by, she would put on a skirt and she could go out and buy an ice cream from the truck (on the nights we missed the truck I had ice cream hidden in the freezer and she could have one of those). The other thing that I did was to talk to my mother and mother-in-law, find out what they had done to get us potty trained when we were little. Then I went to google and did a search for potty training articles and read everything I could until I found something that worked for my daughter. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=potty+training&btnG=Google+Search is the site for all the articles http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/ some good tips. Good Luck.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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- mabee one that plays music
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 6

You have to make a big deal of it so she will feel important if she uses it. Put the potty out where the family is and let her sit on it at different times of the day. While she's doing that applaud her about being a big girl, a smart girl and all the things she would like to hear. When she finally succeeds in going to the bathroom on it, make it a celebration for awhile and she will eventually do it on her own - because even little children love to please their parents.

Answer 7

It took my son nine months to get it down. I put a big beach towel in the living room and the potty on top of it. I kept asking if he had to go potty and if he went I made a HUGE deal of it, m&m rewards and lots of praise. It's soooo frustrating I know but just keep at it! You can't stop now. I started right when you did and now I have a big boy who pees in the big potty!! Trust me she'll get it!!!

Answer 8

I let my children go around the house with no knickers on and left the potty in the same place, with easy access to it. They didn't pee or poo all over the place. Both my daughter and son were potty-trained easily around 2 this way, but perhaps your daughter doesn't want to oblige or she's just not mature enough. Children are all different, what works for one might not work for another. Perhaps she feels you're putting pressure on her because it's important to you. Cheer up, she'll end up going to loo on her own anyway one day.

Answer 9

my 3 an a half year old just learnd a few months back i tryed everything to so i just left her be an she did it on her own. the poop thing did take a lil longer but she got fig it out. she was even in day care an saw all the other kids usen the bathroom and wouldnt so one day i put her in big girl paintys for school an has been all right at school. now at night i put a pull up on her an shes startin not to need it either so good luck

Answer 10

My best suggestion is to wait. My experience is, if you wait until age 3, it takes between 3 and 7 days to complete the task of training. Rewards are unnecessary. If you begin before age 3, generally you're in for 4-6 months or more, with rewards out the wazoo. Babies really need to be babies longer than we allow in Western culture, in order to grow up healthy and self-sufficient. It's not all that convenient to working parents, but research continually demonstrates that children grow up with much better physical and emotional health, and much better financial success, when they are allowed to grow up when they're ready, rather than rushed through the process of growing up.