bottle problem?

Question

the problems is the bottle wont go. how do i get my 3 yr old to stop having bottles i tried just taking them away but i have a young son that still needs his bottle and she steals his when she thinks noone is looking, also she is so stubborn with toilet training i have just stoped putting them on her during the day and take spare clothes if we need to go out. she will go to the toilet sometimes and my husband and i praise her but at other times she will say she doesnt need it and just wet herself??? im not sure what to do as my older child one day decided she didnt want nappies or bottles anymore and hasnt looked back since

to all those answers ty. we have tried the sippy big girl cup and ive tried pull ups i think its more like one of u said the power thing as she knows how to. and for a 3 yrold shes already trying to over power me.

Answer 1

My son reverted to this same behaviour when his little sister was born. He was toilet trained and hadn't used the bottle for quite awhile until she showed up. So for a few days I kept complimenting him on being a "big boy" and "so grown up". Then after a few days, of course, he kept up wanting to do the "baby" thing, so I cuddled him, gave him the bottle and spoke ridiculous baby talk to him! He put up with it for a few times, but looked embarrassed, and finally just gave it up when he realized how silly it was!

Answer 2

My suggestion is to offer her water only in a bottle and her milk and juice in a sippy cup. As for the potty training - offer a small reward each time she successfully uses the toilet. (Examples: a piece of gum, tootsie roll, sticker, whatever your child likes and would want.) Make a BIG deal out of it when she uses the toilet - tell her how proud you are and that she's such a big girl. You can have her sit every hour or two on the toilet. Stay with her and read a book, sing or just talk to her. I potty trained my kids with peppermint patties and tootsie rolls for my second child. Anyway, good luck and I hope I helped.

Answer 3

For the bottle situation have youtried the sippys with a soft top almost like a bottle that is what I used to wien my son off of bottles and telling him it was a big boy cup

Answer 4

i might be able to help with the potty training- I have a strong willed child that knew how & when to use the potty but would refuse to use it. We decided it was a power issue. I took all pull-ups and diapers away. she learned that if she didnt use the potty she would soil her cloths and have to stop what she was doing anyway to change her cloths. This worked really well. Within a week we had her completely trained even at night

Answer 5

try a star chart for her toileting giving her a prize after 5 stars [then 10 starts and so on]i have done this with my son and it has worked well we still have accidents but very few i found the easiesy was to get rid of the bottle was i gave my little girl a new born baby doll she was told she had to use her bottles to fed her as bottles were for babies she loved it and if that fails let her go but limit them to morning, nap time and bed have a special bottle for each.good luck as i know little girls r monsters

Answer 6

just be patient, each child is different. don't give her, her own bottle and use a sippy cup. if she takes it away give her, her cup and tell her it is for big girls.be very patient with the potty training. she will get it figured out soon. never fuss at a child for their mistakes during potty training.they learn more from praise than scolding. most of all .....good luck...

Answer 7

She is very likely simply wanting the same kind of attention her little brother is getting. Talk to your pediatrician - he/she very likely has lots of great ideas for helping your daughter be her own person and not feel that she needs to still have a bottle and nappies to get your attention.

Answer 8

She is very likely simply wanting the same kind of attention her little brother is getting. Talk to your pediatrician - he/she very likely has lots of great ideas for helping your daughter be her own person and not feel that she needs to still have a bottle and nappies to get your attention.

Answer 9

my son was 5 yrs old before he gave the bottle up. it was his security object as he never had a blanket or anything like that. we tried every possibly thing under the sun to get him off of the bottle. finally, it came down to us telling him if he wanted to go to kindergarten, he had to drink out of a big boy cup as they don't allow kids with bottles in school. he stopped that next day and has not looked back since. we tried every (and i honestly mean every) single kind of sippie cup on the market (spending hundreds of dollars), we tried peppermint on the nipple, hot pepper on the nipple, tried hiding it, we tried putting water in bottle and juice in big cup, we tried all kinds of measures to get him off of the bottle and nothing worked. we kept getting flack from everyone about him still having the bottle and i kept saying he'll get rid of it when he's damn good and ready, and that's just what happened. he's never asked for it since he stopped it himself. when we tried, he would go 3-4 days without drinking anything and would often get dehydrated so i gave up trying. it was to much for me to handle and he's just fine now, no problems at all. toilet training my son was 3 1/2 yrs old before he started potty training. once he started and enjoyed being without diapers anymore and realizing that he can't go to school without being like that, as he was going to preschool in a few months, he started to ask to go to the potty and never stopped. he has accidents here and there which is nothing as sometimes adults have them also, and it's been no problem. each child is different on how they react and do things. no one child is "on target" which i think is stupid as all kids are different, not all kids progress the same rate and do things at the same rate as others. so to compare them is demeaning if you ask me. just let them be themselves and do things on their own, assist them but let them make the initial move when they're ready. it'll go so much easier than forcing them into something they're not ready to do yet. good luck with it.

Answer 10

be patient. your bottle-nabber will want to grow up one day, too. if you want to speed it along, tell the child that if she wants a bottle she has to wear a daiper too. then call her a baby. she will get sick of the game in two or three days and then throw fits for calling her a baby. soon she will reject anything she associates with being a baby.

best of luck!