potty training questions... for training a 19 month little girl..?

Question

ok, I have a 19 month little girl... how do I know when she is ready to train? any helpful hints that may work to make this transition easier for the both of us? when you trained your little girl (if this applies) what worked for you or what didn't work? and web sites you would reccomend to me to further help me with this?

Answer 1

My mom said she trained us (3 daughters) at about 24 months. She said we were holding it for several hours anyway and would follow her into the bathroom. She just took it rather naturally and nonchalantly. As an incentive, she'd show us frilly, lacy pretty underpanties that we could wear if we were dry all day, so of course we'd try even harder.
Also, all three of us had very tender skin and hated to sit in wet diapers because of ammonia burn (this was way before paper diapers!) so potty training us was fairly simple, she said.

Personally, my experience has been in training four boys. I didn't use paper diapers either because of the environmental issue, and because I hated the thought of the urine trapped in the diaper next to their tender skin.

The frilly, lacy panty thing of course wasn't an option, but Superman/Spiderman underpants sure was! I also waited to start training them until they were almost 3. None of my boys were physically, mentally, or emotionally ready for it and I eliminated a world of stress by waiting until they were ready to hold it themselves.

Answer 2

Ok I have an 18 month old girl, Don;t get me wrong we are still in the process too, but she started taking off her own diaper when she peed in it. So we started to take her right to the potty after naps and she went just fine then we got little panties for her and she loves to run around in those things allot. But then she backed off from doing it so we left her alone aboutt it. Well, abou t2 weeks ago she started being interested in it again. We have now started to put her on the "big girl potty" and she likes that term allot b/c she thinks she is a big girl..Ok, but anyways she does the same thing now that she did then the pulling off of the diaper, when she does that we automatically take her to the potty and she does then we give her a treat, like little lollipops or a cookie something small and praise her for what she has done. I mean really you just have to watch for the signs that she is ready. Pulling the diaper, taking it off, saying "pee" all the time I mean all babies are different and be on top of it while she is interested in learning it and if she backs away you back away from it, she will let you know when she is ready again. I have been going through this for like 4 months with mine.Good Luck! Muha!

Answer 3

You don't need a web site...this is basic stuff. Watch your little girl and figure out her potty time schedule...how soon after drinking liquids does she pee? Once you've established that, what you need to do is put her on the potty chair at her usual pee time and keep her there until she goes in the little potty. When she goes you praise her and reward her with something she likes such as a cookie. But be careful with the praise....not to loud so as you scare her. A guy I work with said that he saw Dr. Phill say that you should get bells and whistles and all sorts of noise makers and really have a celebration when the child pees in the potty. Well, he tried this with his daughter and it scared her so bad she wouldn't go anywhere near the potty chair after that. Just a little hand clapping and a big smile and hug will do just fine. Just keep putting her on the potty every so often. At first, going in the potty will be an accident....it will be just because that's where she was when she needed to pee. But after a while she will start to get it that mommy likes it when she pees in the potty. Also, get her training pants and let her run around the house just wearing the training pants and a shirt. You need to make it easy for her to go in the potty on her own. And then, once she starts going to the potty on her own you need to buy her big girl panties. Big girl panties are very important. It's like graduating to being a big girl.

Answer 4

Does she let you know when she's gone potty? That is the biggest sign.

Get a potty chair and let her play with it for a while. We let our dd use it if she wanted to and rewarded her when she did, but it got to the point where she would only use it if she wanted the reward.

So we did a pants-off weekend and just let her play in the house with no pants. Dresses are great for pants-off weekends. She used the potty but cried every time, but we were persistant. When she used it, we would call her grandma (who she adores) and tell her she used it and my dd would get lots of praise. After about 2 days there was no more crying and she uses it every time. We got some of those Kandoo wipes which she loves instead of toilet paper.

She still wears a pull-up at night or when we go out for long outings, but we're going to start working on using the toilet instead of the potty.

Good luck and I'm sure your daughter will do great!

Answer 5

i started traning at 14 months she did ok she had accidents but all the other girls seemed to have trained faster this went on till she was 2 then a friend told me to take away the pull ups and give her panties and that did it pull ups dont let them feel uncomfortable so they just would rather play then take the time to use the potty once i switched it was a matter of days till no more accidents. dont switch untill you see she has the concept down. ask her very often and take her potty before and after meals i used a seat that went on a regular seat i dint use a (potty chair) she had no interest in it. good luck

Answer 6

all of these are great ideas...may I add, switching to cloth diapers or cloth pull up's will make the process go even faster. I recommend tinytush.com for cloth diapers and cloth potty training pants, If you want to use the store bought thinner big girl panties then I suggest the disposable liners that you can buy on pottytrainingsolutions.com....good luck, so far this is working for my 20 month old daughter.

Answer 7

if she let you know she is wet or need a changing ,bring you a pamper ,she may be ready, but she should have been introduce
to the pottie before now ,just going through the motion of putting her on the pot ,even if she does nothing,when she has movement in her pamper ,put it in the pot so she will know what it's for ,start putting her on the pottie after a meal for a little while ,it is important not to make she set to long on the pot because the pottie will become her enemy

Answer 8

You won't be able to train them till they are physically and emotionaly ready.
My daughter wasn't potty trained untill a month before her 3rd birthday. My son wasn't trained till his 3rd birthday.
Pull ups did NOT work for my kids. I got them real underwear and they didn't have as many accidents. Pull ups were more like a diaper to them.
My kids didn't like a potty chair either. they'd rather go potty on the big toilet like mom and dad. You can get one of those seats that go on the toilet so they don't fall in.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Teach her that a dirty diaper is ... dirty. Say, and teach her to say, "EEEWWW" when she dirties it. Next, let her practice putting on her own pullups and make sure her potty seat is easy to get to. Now watch her and notice and learn the signs and body language of your child when she's "gotta go." If you notice the sign, ask "need to potty?" Whatever the phrase is, say it everytime. Don't change the phrase. Many mistakes will happen before getting it down, but teach EEEWWW and NEED TO POTTY? And thank goodness you're not training a boy!