Potty Training Advice Please!!!!!!?

Question

My daughter is almost 2 and i would like to start potty training her soon. I have bought her a potty but she dosent want anything to do with it. Sometimes i can get her to sit on our toilet but nothing happens and she really doesnt want to sit there for long. I know it takes time but if anyone has any helpful tips please let me know. thanks

Answer 1

Let her play with the potty for awhile. Use a sticker chart for reward, make it the biggest deal in the world when she finally goes for the first time.

Answer 2

Take her with you when you go potty. Talk to her about what you're doing. Bring in some small toys that you can both play with while you sit on the potty. With my daughter, we spent a good long time laying the foundation for potty training, and it paid off. Make it fun, make it entertaining, make sitting on the potty and doing her business something she will look forward to. Make it a "quality time" thing-sit & chit chat or play patty cake. I invented "Mommy Spider" for my daughter and it was a HUGE help! My toilet is right next to the bath tub, and I would just make a spider of my hand, and Mommy Spider would talk to and play with my kid while we sat & went potty. When my girl would "go" in her potty, I'd make a HUGE fuss! I'd call Daddy in & he'd make a big fuss. She and I would also laugh & giggle at poots and the sound of pee hitting the potty. I think the key is to make it fun and not something to be ashamed of.

Be sure that if she has accidents while training, you don't scold her or make a big deal of it-if you do, she will view this as a control issue & you will be the one being controlled! You may find that it is helpful to ask her once every hour or so if she needs to go. Go in with her every time & you go while she does.

It's kind of a tricky thing, but it can be done without power struggles and without a great deal of drama or trauma.

Good luck to you both!

Answer 3

I am at the same point as you and will tell you some advice that I have been given. The child will let you know when she is ready by expressing when she goes and when she needs to go. She has to recognize that she is wet or dirty to understand the use of the toilet. Next let her run around bottom bare. When she pees or defecates on herself it will freak her out (my daughter doesn't seem to mind this- in fact she splashing around in the pee- though so I think it depends on the kid). Leave the toilet where she can see it and become familiar with it. My daughter thinks it is a chair now so we are almost there lol. It takes alot of patience so just bear with her as she is learning her body. This is stuff that I have been told so if it doesn't work I am sorry-I am learning also.

Answer 4

We started putting "big boy" underwear on him so that when he would go potty in his pants it would make him uncomfortable. We also introduced the potty chair about 6 months before starting the underwear to get him familiar. It took us about a year from start to finish to have him fully potty trained.

Answer 5

I always trained my child in infancy. They get used. She could indicate potty since 4months.
But you can take her to do all jobs on potty.
Make her sit at right times.
Do not bribe.
Do not be stubborn yourself. She will become stubborn and blackmail you . LOL.
Just be patient. It will take time. 2 years she is used to something else. Talk to her. Spend time with her. Every time take her to it for loo.
Tell her good things about school. About her growing up like you and so on...
All the best.

Answer 6

you will have to spend a lot of time going over the basics with your child..this is the part of parenting that people hate..but the results in the long run could effect your childs mindset even when they are an adult. Its psychological steming from ones first experience with the potty training

Answer 7

we got our daughter used to using the potty by getting her a small training potty, and every time one of us needed to go, we took her with us and made her sit down (of course we sat too). You also have to ask them alllll the time if they need to go.

One more tip, if she does pee her diaper or pullup, take her to the bathroom to change her, pull her pants down and make her sit on the potty before you change the diaper.

Good luck!!

Answer 8

I am having baby number 4 in about 10 days. For my others I planned a week where I could be home all day with them, and we spent the entire week working on it. I let them run around with no bottoms all day or just big boy or big girl undies(cotton- NOT pull ups) and everytime I went I took them in with me. If they peed themselves I would change the underwear and say that's why we pee in the potty. If they would poop them selves, I would carry the poop to their potty. After this week of hell, we were well on our way and wearing underwear all day and pull ups to bed.

Answer 9

Potty training board use stickers, every time she uses the potty or tries to use it and a reward, may be big girl panties.

Answer 10

when my cousin potty trained her son she would take him into the bathroom when she had to go (one because there was no one to watch him, and two to teach him) and sit him on his potty. when she was done she would show him what mommy did on the toilet and explain that big boys go on the toilet and eventually he was trained, no problems at all!