Ok, I'm a frustrated first time mom. I started potty training my 2yr. old daughter this week. I set the timer for a half hour and when it goes off I take her to the potty. I have her sit on the potty for 5min. She cries almost the whole time. I try to encourage her, but she just cries through it. I've given her books to read, but that just seems to distract her. Then yesterday, I put her on the potty for 5min., got her off and two minutes later she went in her pull up. So, I put her right back on the potty and told her in a nice way that she needs to go peepee on the big girl potty and not in her pull-up. I then took her off. Within the half hour time span from the first time I put her on the potty she went pee in her pull-up twice. I just don't know what to do for her to get the idea of it. Does anyone have some good tips as to how to get her to understand it and have fun learning to go potty on the big girl potty??
2006-11-22 05:36:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I've tried singing funny songs and I tried bribing her with gum (because she loves gum right now), but that didn't seem to work yesterday. We have only been working on this since Monday, so I think maybe I just need to give her some time to get used it.
2006-11-22 05:48:55 · update #1
With my boy and my girl both I used to entice them with/offer "rewards" like a piece of their favorite candy or a new Hot Wheel afterwards....(bribery isn't always bad, haha)
2006-11-22 05:39:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it was time for my little girl for potty training, I set a little potty across our toilet. I had stickers ready just in case she sat down. Our pediatrician explained that at that age, children need role models and it was okay to see her parents and other family members no more than a year older than her using the bathroom.
I never used pull ups.... per our pediatrician's advice. She said children need to feel the whole wet/soiled uncomfortable experience. The pull-ups do not let them know. I followed this advice and my daughter was trained in 2 -weeks. There were a lot of accidents in those weeks, but worth it. If your daughter is crying the whole time, then she is uncomfortable with this change.
Her curiosity eventually came around... just as your little girl's will. The more relaxed you are about it ...the more your little girls will pick up on it. There are books on the family values section that address potty training at Barnes & Nobles. Try reading when she doesn't need the bathroom to help her know what is to be expected when the time comes.
2006-11-22 06:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Miriam S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't start potty training mine yet but going to soon but this is what I heard on the news once that you could try. I heard them talk about on the news once and it supposedly works in one day. The kid was a girl and 3 years old though but they tried and tried and never got anywhere so they went to the last solution that they read in a book so anyway this is what they did. The took a baby doll that peed to the potty all though out the morning time and every time that the baby doll peed in the potty it had a party (I think if I remembered right they did this with the doll every hour or two in the morning). Then in the afternoon they switched it too the girl, so then when she went to the potty they throw her a little party for going to the potty. Now you can try that with your daughters if you want but I won't do it with mine because to me they would think they get a party every time they go to the bathroom.
2016-03-29 05:44:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off don't push it or make it a chore or unfun. what we are doing with my daughter(we are just starting a slow potty training) (she is19 months) is we started by just putting the potty chair out where she plays so she could get used to it. after a couple of weeks we moved the potty chair into the bathroom and every time we went we would say to her lets go pee pee... she will follow us into the bathroom and sit on her potty sometimes with out her diaper others with. as soon as we move next week will be really trying training(she shows all signs...hates being in yucky diaper will go get one so u can change her, can walk and talk well) with my other girls when it came time to do real potty training use real undies or just a large shirt or dress no panties....pull ups are too much like a diaper. they need to feel the wet or yuckys....praise and reward when they go in the potty and DON'T MAKE A BIG ISSUE OVER ACCIDENTS.
2006-11-22 08:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by ladysilverhorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sounds like perhaps it's too early for her. I know it's frustrating, especially if you have to pay more at daycare because of diapers (which I think it so unfair) but you don't want to push the issue too soon or it could create other problems.
Does your daughter have words for bodily functions?
Does she recognize the feeling that comes when you have to potty?
I'd take a step back and work on simply recognizing that feeling of "I have to pee." and then start over trying to get on the potty.
My son turned 2 in August and we have not even addressed the issue of potty training yet.
Good Luck!
2006-11-22 07:59:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about waiting until she is ready to potty train? She obviously isn't ready yet. And get rid of the pull ups, they do nothing to promote readiness for the potty. They are nothing like diapers and are not like underwear and they give the child a false sense of security. Once the pull ups come off and the child is in regular underwear they don't have the same sensations they get from peeing in a pullup therefore they don't KNOW what to do...so the PEE in their underwear. I so wish stores would ban them from their shelves.
2006-11-25 17:10:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your daughter is clearly not ready to be potty trained. She is crying because she is being made to sit there.yet she has no idea why??...Please read a child development book . You will see, each child is ready at different times...if she does not know when she is peeing..only peeing now and then when you force her to sit on the potty..it is just coincidence she pees at that time. Why force it on her? You are wasting her time...your time..it makes no sense . A child has to have the cognitive ability to KNOW when they have to pee..what they have to do..and actually be able to stop what they are doing to go pee...she doesn't know when she has to pee. I know I'm going on..it just so frustrating to read about people potty trainee a child who clearly has no concept of what is happening or what she is doing. Such a waste of her time being forced on that damn potty. Wait a few weeks..chill out..see if she shows signs..clear signs , she is ready..not when it is convenient for you!
2006-11-25 17:52:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, it sounds like she just may not be ready. Don't force her, or it will make things worse for her. Instead, try things to entice her to want to go. Have you tried to get the pull ups that make them feel the wetness or feel cool when they pee in them? Some tricks that I've been trying with my 2 1/2 year old are a calendar with star stickers. She gets a star on the calendar everytime she goes pee pee in the potty, and if she goes poopies, she gets 2 stars. At the times that she gets difficult about it, I will try to entice her with a Hershey's Kiss.
We started potty training when she was about 17 months old and she did really great for awhile, but she back-slid for awhile and didn't want to go on the potty at all. We're just starting to get back to the point that she will tell me when she has to go (sometimes after she's gone in her pull-up, but she tells me at least) and sometimes even goes in herself and just gets on the potty.
My point with that little ramble was that you shouldn't worry about it, if after you get her going on the potty if she back-slides for awhile.
Right now, I'm trying a new bribe on mine. I bought her some Dora underwear and told her that if she can go for one whole day going to potty on just the potty and not in her pull-up, then we will try the Dora underwear, and I continually remind her that she doesn't want to go potty on Dora.
Don't know if any of this will help, but I hope that it does.
2006-11-22 05:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by Ophylia72 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm. Sounds too regimented and not fun for her. You have to make it fun. Put her on the potty and sing a funny song. We sing "Natalia's going poopie on the potty" blah blah. She still hasn't gone yet, but she loves going to sit on the potty. She'll dribble a little pee and then jump up happy and grab the little tray to put it, herself, into the toilet. And she likes to flush. My parents told me that they had to BRIBE my sister. She took forever. Fianlly, they had the "present chest". Little toys wrapped up. If she went, she got to go pick one from the chest. She learned in a week.
2006-11-22 05:43:28 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try a sticker chart or secret prize
2006-11-22 12:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by chuy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋