i need advice with potty training......anyone?

Question

i have a little girl whose 2. she has done it before. she knows what to do. she tells u when she needs to be changed and even tries to change her own clothes when the wets them. she even poops in the potty. but refuses to pee. she goes to the bathroom to pee on herself but will not pee in potty. please someone give some technique to try.

Answer 1

the only thing that i can tell you is that they only do it when they are ready. both of my children would go on the potty sporadically and then just one day they decided on their own that they wanted to only use the potty. neither of them have had accidents or anything. i dont think that potty training is one of those things that you can push. i tried every single technique i heard with my daughter and she just wouldn't do it until she was ready. best of luck to you, she is still young, she will get it soon!

Answer 2

If she goes in there and pees on herself it's probably a control issue. You know she's trying to get there in time but it just ain't working. I would really recommend dressing her in as little as possible! My daughter wore a dress while potty training and no underware etc. That way she was able to just run in there and hop on. Of course you've got to turn up the heat so that's a trade off. The longer she did it the better she got at it. Of course my youngest is now dealing with the fact that it's winter and the toilet seat is too cold! So we are having problems with that. I might just go out and get a wooden seat and put it on--they aren't as cold and it's not rocket science to get one on. When you are "out and about" see if she can go before you leave the house, have her try often while out etc. and always bring a change of clothes in a backpack! My daughter trained at 2 but she also could not go pee on "command" she is now 6 and is just starting to occasionally do it. Of course as she aged she got better at "holding it" until we could get to the potty.

If this is your first you should know that potty training is not a "perfect" thing. It takes years before you can expect them to always make it etc. At 2 it can take 6 months of work to get them down to one accident every other day. My best advice is to just go with the flo--(no pun intended) celebrate it when she makes it and comfort her when she doesn't. Keep some disinfectant wipes in the bathroom so that you all can clean up immediately when there's a mess. I always kept baby wipes there too to clean them up--there's no reason to bathe a child everytime they have an accident! The first year of potty training is more work for Mom/Dad than changing diapers. I think that's why we just put it off for so long here in America.

Good Luck, stay calm, and make sure that somebody else is on "potty duty" with your daughter a couple of hours a day if possible.

Answer 3

I don't know if you would be comfortable trying this but this is what I did. I took my daughter into the bathroom with me each time I had to go, most little girls want to do what their mom is doing. I put her potty chair by the toilet and had her sit on it even if she didn't do anything (diaper or clothes off) and made a big production of having to go pee pee. I would even give myself a (treat) for going in the toilet in hopes of making her want to get a treat too, treats only for pee pee. You can also put a small amount of water with a few drops of blue food color in it, and tell her it's a magic potty, and when she goes pee pee in it, it will (magically) change color. Good Luck

Answer 4

I know not everyone will like this idea, but I did it with my son & it really helped. I took jelly beans and put them in a jar. Only I didn't call them jelly beans. I called them potty beans, and he only got a few when he went to the bathroom. I always made a big deal when he did go. I needed an incentive to get him to go & the potty beans were it. After he got it down & some time passed he began to not even ask for them. Now I don't give him any at all & he just goes because he likes that "clean" feeling I guess.

Answer 5

Take her to the bathroom when you go pee. Show her how you pee in the toilet and clap and say, "Yay. Mommy peed in the potty." Or you can get a doll that pees and have the doll pee in the potty. Say the same thing about the doll peeing in the potty. The point is to show your daughter that peeing in the toilet is a good thing and that you get praised for it. She'll get excited about peeing in the toilet and do it on her own. But be sure to clap your hands and tell her what a good girl she is when you see that she peed in the potty. It'll encourage her to do it again.

Answer 6

If your daughter is ready to potty than this is what you do and it works I did it with my daughter. When your daughter pottys and does it on herself than you take her to the potty pull her pull ups down sit her down on the potty for 5 minutes and she will learn that way if she does it again you add on another 5 minutes. Also tell her what she did wrong before you put her on the potty. This will work and it depends how fast she will learn. But remember that is she keeps doing it than keep on on 5 minutes and let her cry and if she moves spank her bottom once and sit her down and add another 5 minutes for standing make her understand and show her who's the mother. Good luck

Answer 7

I potty trained my autistic son when he was two. He was totally out of diapers in three months, it doesn't have to take a year. First, get rid of diapers or pullups during the day when you're at home. Take her to pick out some underwear, and tell her those HAVE to stay dry, they're special. As soon as she wakes up in the morning, take her to the bathroom and have her sit down, put her in her underwear. Have a reward of some kind ready for when she goes. At the daycare I worked at we used gummy bears, I used skittles with my son and a sticker chart. He would get three skittles and one sticker for going. She's only two, there's no reason to worry about using rewards. It works,and as soon as they have it down you don't need them anymore. Sometimes they just need a little motivation. After that first time take her every hour to sit down and try. EVERY TIME she goes, get really silly and make a big deal, tell her how proud you are of her. If she has an accident, don't scold her but let her know that's icky, and peepee goes in the potty not in the underwear. For night time, when you're ready for that step, stop all fluids about three hours before she goes to bed. Start in the pullups or diapers, and when she's consistently dry when she wakes up, you'll know it's time to get rid of those, too. I've used this method with potty training six kids, and the longest it took was six months and that was with kids that don't live with me, I was working in a day care. With mine, he was not having accidents during the day after two weeks, staying dry all night within two months, and it took me another month to get brave enough to go with just underwear when we left the house, and he has never had an accident. Ask her several times a day if she has to go, and she'll get used to listening to her own body to know when. I'm now starting to potty train my 2 yr old and a 2 1/2 yr old autistic boy that I babysit, so I'm in the same boat again!

Answer 8

It might just be a faze, but try making her a big girl box. When she goes potty she get to pick something out of the box. I used this with my daughter and it worked great. In the box I had crayons, princess things, Dora things, candy, and other things that my daughter loved. After a while she will learn that its better to go in the potty then it is to go in her pants.

Answer 9

I have 2 boys and to potty train my first son he would run around without any clothes on and when he had to go he would let me know. Other than that he would do the same as your daughter.
Good luck.
p.s. just give it time we are all potty trained it will just come naturally and when she is ready!

Answer 10

I nanny for 3-year old triplets (a girl and 2 boys) and they are going through the potty training thing right now. It's very difficult at times, but just be thankful that you only have ONE to potty train.....think about having triplets!