Just curious of when you started to potty train your child and how long it took you. What did you try and what worked? Were you potty training a boy or a girl? How did you know if they were ready? Were you ready? Thanks! My daughter is almost 20 months and watches when mommy uses the potty and likes to sit on the potty (she has a Dora insert and a Dora step stool) she also removes her diapers when wet or comes to show me that she is wet.
2007-01-31 09:32:57 · 7 answers · asked by brandy 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I had two daughters and both were pretty easy to train. It sounds as if your girl is on the same track.
I had a few ideas that I tried out on daughter #1. Even if I became frustrated, I took comfort from the idea that eventually she would master the skill of using the toilet; I did not know too many adults who lived in diapers due to lack of training!
The first is always the toughest I learned. By the time you are on your second everything, while not carrying the excitement of a FIRST, is so much easier as a result of your experience. My first was 15 months when we summered in the middle of nowhere for a few summer months. I let her run about naked a lot of the time and that clued her in to "stuff" coming out of her body.
A few months later we got her a potty chair and just sat it in the bathroom and totally ignored it once she knew it was there and that it was "Weena's chair". We did not make much muss or fuss about it and kind of low-keyed it. (and I had thought Serena was a name we could not mess up with short forms!)
She spent much time watching both dad and mom...and assorted relatives doing business. She knew what it was! When she was 22 months, while her dad and I finished off lunch, she disappeared into the bathroom. A few moments later she was crowing proudly wanting us to see her big production. It was all uphill after that!
And yes, the moment she began to eat eggs, I began to think about being "ready"! I found it easier to be ready for full training than it was when she stopped nursing. Now THAT broke my heart!
The thing I felt was most important was we never pushed, never fretted, never made a big thing of training. We just acted as if she would learn it eventually and she did. Needless to say, her baby sister, wanting to be just like her, almost trained herself.
Hard to believe that little baby is now completing her Masters in Computer Sciences now. I guess I must have done something right and it is alllll due to good potty training! haha
It sounds to me like you and your little cutie are well on the way to success. She already "gets" it. Enjoy your baby, the good times are just beginning and next week she will be off to university. Sometimes childhood seems endless, but amazingly, it still seems to fly by in a matter of hours.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh to go back to the days when potty training was a big hurdle! You will someday consider these "the good old days".
2007-01-31 09:54:32 · answer #1 · answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she is defiantly ready to start! I worked at a day care in the 2 year old class and potty trained MANY kids. Girls tend to be easier for me at least. You'll know when their ready when they can stay dry for hours at a time or can stay dry through their nap or through the night. I personally hate pull ups...its just like putting another diaper on your child. I would just make the change from diaper to under ware, she may have a few accidents but if she doesn't like the feeling of being wet (she is already showing you she doesn't by removing her diaper when she goes) then she will only have a couple accidents and the wet filling will help her recognize the feeling she gets before she goes.
2007-01-31 09:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter started using the potty--only when she felt like it-- when she was around 2, at which point she could go all night long without wetting the bed. I didn't push it though and she didn't decide she was ready until she was over 3.
Seriously, she just started doing it on her own because she was ready and I helped to guide her, but I made it "her idea" and she went with it.
2007-01-31 09:39:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sart potty train my daughter at 25 months i didn't put her diapers all day only in the nigth it took me 4 weeks to stop piss and 1 year to stop to stool
2007-01-31 09:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Potty train when the toddler is old enough to get a pair of elastic-waist pants all the way on by him/her self.
2007-01-31 09:41:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not helpful with this one. I was lucky with my girls and basically they did it themselves by 1-1 1\2 old.
2007-01-31 09:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋