toilet training a two year old, some help please...?

Question

i have a two year old daughter and would like to know some ways in how i could toilet train her. i have been trying now for a month and she does not seem to be picking up on it some ideas would be greatly appriciated.

Answer 1

Have you tried pull-ups style training pants? My son got the hang of it right quick because he didn't want to pee in his "Mickey Mouses"!

Answer 2

Allow her to watch videos that include potty trained kids actually going potty and getting praise from parents. The pull-ups website should have some videos. Also buy dolls that goes potty too. Don't force her. Start out by letting her potty while you run the bubblebath. (I started this with my 2yo and everytime she hears someone running bath water she says, "I gotta go potty". But its a good habit because water makes you think about the potty. Also allow her to experience being wet in real underwear. Buy her favorite character to entice her more. Put a pair on the doll and a pair on her. When shes deep into an activity tell her mommy's going potty wanna come? (My daughter always said yes) Then tell her to sit on her potty while you sit on yours. She'll get the hang of it and not a moment too late trust me. I introduced the potty at age1 and by age two shee was daytime potty trained and for 1 month now shes been night time potty trained (1 accident so far). But hey they are only two. Can you imagine achieving something that great in only a month? If so, then maybe you should havee been introduced her to the potty so she would have been finished. But have patience and get ready to clean up a lot of mess.

Answer 3

My mom ran a daycare when I was young and almost every kid that started with her wasn't potty trained. Now, my family is not cool with scraping big loads off of any childs butt older than 1! I know most people say "oh don't push it they'll do it on their own", that's LAZINESS! My mom took those untrained children with a 2 week limit for them to be potty trained, if not NO DAYCARE. Let me tell you, every child was trained much faster than 2 weeks. It needs to become a routine to sit on the potty however long it takes. All my mom's daycare kids were rewarded with smarties :) But it does take your time. Entertaining while they are on the toilet at over 1 year old is useless. They feel they are getting good attention there and why pee? The fun should be after the pee pee, the pee pee dance, clapping, singing etc... My little sister, myself and my daughter were all potty trained by age one (not to mention my cousins, my grandma had 12 children, there's lots of them). I don't remember what my mom did for us but for my baby I bought her toilet at about 4 months and as soon as she could sit up well we sat there reading books. You know her first time on the potty she went (that was just luck, but it saved me a diaper anyhow). Several times a day she had potty time, sometimes she went sometimes not but she learned the potty was a good place to pee pee if she had to. My goodness get to it, you'll be glad when you don't have to empty that smelly diaper genie or buy another diaper ever again!

Answer 4

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 girl was potty-trained in two days 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 5

Try keeping a couple of short books in the bathroom, that way when she has to go, or when you think she should try, you can read her a story as she's sitting. I know it helped me keep them on the seat a little longer!
Also, rather than using pull-ups or diapers, at least while she is home let her wear "big girl" panties. You may be doing a little extra wash for a while, but it will be easier for her to tell when she is wet, and she won't like getting her panties dirty. Pull-ups are just another version of diaper, and most kids I know use them just like one.
Good luck!!

Answer 6

Patience Mommy. Every child progresses at their own speed.
Consistency is a must. About every 1/2 hour put her on her little potty. Sit with her, read to her a little and if she happens to 'tinkle' praise her and perhaps sing the "I did it" song. They will pretty much let you know when they are ready
Do not get discouraged and NEVER punish or scold her if she happens to go in the diaper. Just say, well lets try the potty, I bet it is uncomfortable have wet panties.
They now have diapers that let a child know when they first start to urinate.

Answer 7

I have a three year old son that JUST this month potty trained himself, I had tried to working with him and he done really good with his pull ups the ones (that have stars on them and if you pee pee they disappear) anyway we had a baby last year in August and everything went down hill he didnt want to try anymore my theory is dont PUSH them if they are willing to do it GREAT praise them when they try and praise them when they do DO IT but i feel that every child is different and they will when they are ready not saying dont work with her but dont push it my son we bought him some underwear he had accidents for 2 or 3 days and now he is fully trained he goes on his own and another thing to look at is... if she is staying dry ALL night in her pull up or diapers or whatever thats a good sign thats what he done and if they show they are wanting to try thats good! Good Luck!!!! and dont worry when he is ready it will happen

Answer 8

She may not be ready yet. But here's some stuff to try....
Take her with you when you go potty...let her flush for you. Let her wash her hands with you...make it fun for her and she'll want to do it. Get her her own special soap, that helped me with mine.
When you go potty, take her in there and with you and she can copy you, even if she doesn't go at first, she will get the hang of it. Make up a potty song....sing in the order of things you do, like pull your pants down, go potty, pants back up, flush, wash hands...make up your own tune, or have her make one up.

Let her wear panties during the day, pick out some ones that have characters she is into, her big girl panties.

Hope some of these ideas work for you. Good luck!

Answer 9

Consistancy. I think every 2 hours you should but her on the potty. Don't get too excited or too dissappointed. Just let it be a thing you do with her. No pressure. I keep a potty seat in the car for when we are out shopping or traveling so I don't have to deal with public toilettes.

Answer 10

The way I finally got my son to use the potty was to just stop putting diapers on him. I told him he had to wear "big kid" underwear. After he peed in his pants once or twice, and realized he didn't like having wet clothes, he used the potty all the time.
He was just a little over two.

Answer 11

I am a mom of three and my strategy worked for all of them, but I know all kids are different. We literally would live in the bathroom for like two weeks. We just sat on the toilet, on one of those kid cushy seats and wait. Every time they went, they were rewarded (candy, etc.) but I would have them stay there for awhile afterwards. It is boring and dull, but it works well. Bring lots of stories, cd player, etc. Live in the bathroom until they get it down.