I need potty training advice for my 2 1\2 year old. She is the baby of the family and likes being the baby.

Question

Please help she is my youngest, and wants nothing to do with the potty. I didn't have a problem training my other 3 children, but my youngest daughter is very against it. I would appreciate any ideas I get. I bought a gallon bucket of gum and told her that she can have some everytime she uses the toilet, but it's not working. She hardly ever gets candy so I thought it would work, but nope. I even had her actually walk around with underwear on all day and she went for me once, but everyother time I put her on the potty she just sat there and said all done. I don't want to sit her on the potty for too long because I don't want to make her hate it anymore than she already does. Please help.

Answer 1

Make some choices FOR her - - - things she can't do until she uses the potty like everybody else. Pick someplace she can't go (a movie? certain events?), some things you won't let her do (the big slide? be out shopping a long time?). It has to be something she'll miss not sharing in, and your family must go along with your plan (politely, as a matter of fact, not a big dramatic denial).
Good Luck.

Answer 2

I just potty trained my 2 1/2 year old daughter (also the baby of the family). We made a sticker chart. i bought some special potty chart stickers (dora ones). Every time she went on her potty chair or the toilet she got a sticker. I told her once her chart was filled up we could go do something special just the 2 of us. And she would Also get a special surprise (dora slippers). She didn't know what she would get. She is at the age where she wants to do what other children her age are doing. Does she have a friend who uses the potty. You can always tell her that so and so uses the potty like a big girl. That may get her intrested.

Have your older children make a big deal out of potty training. Let her pick out some special underwear. Let her go into the bathroom with you or any other girl in the family. Make a big deal of it every time she attempts to go potty on the toilet or her potty chair.

I told my youngest that once she was potty trained and 3 years old she could go to school like her brother and sister. i also told her that her grandpa would bring her. (he gave her sister M&M'S every day he brought her.) I told her he might dio the same thing with her. She is now fully potty trained durring the day.


Do NOT however tell her she will get a spanking or anything like that if she does not go on the potty. She honestly may not be ready yet.

Answer 3

(I found this info i hope it helps)

Question: How can I encourage my 2-year-old to have a bowel movement on the potty, instead of in his diaper or training pants?

Answer: If your child refuses to have a bowel movement on the potty, one of the first things to do is check the consistency of his stools. Most kids who refuse to use the toilet and have their bowel movements only in their diapers, training pants, or underwear, have had problems with constipation. Make sure your child has soft, formed stools. Hard stools, large stools, or small pebbly stools are all signs of constipation, and the most common reason for stool withholding or "toileting refusal" is that the child has had one or more bowel movements that were painful or uncomfortable.

The best way to soften the consistency of a child's stools is through his diet, by getting him to eat more fiber and by monitoring his intake of dairy products. To calculate the amount of dietary fiber your child is getting, check the nutritional information label on his food or check a health book. A good rule of thumb: Children should eat enough grams of fiber to equal their age plus five. (For example, a 2-year-old needs 7 grams of fiber each day.) It's also best if the fiber is distributed equally among your child's three meals, rather than eaten all at once.

It can take weeks, sometimes months, for a child to get over having a painful bowel movement. Parents often think their child has an accident because he is angry or resentful, but according to doctors, this is rarely the case. A child may have accidents because he holds back his painful stools until he can't hold them anymore.

Once your child is routinely having soft, formed bowel movements, keep track of when he has them to see if there is any pattern to them. If you can tell that it's about time for him to poop, encourage him to sit on the toilet.

I also recommend what I call toilet or potty sits — encouraging your child to sit on the toilet or potty several times a day, without any pressure to have a bowel movement. These "sits" are more to get him accustomed to sitting on the toilet than to get him to use it. It's all right for him to do a dozen toilet sits each day without ever having a bowel movement there. Your goal is to help him learn to relax while sitting on the toilet.

Make certain that your child can place his feet firmly on the floor, if he's on a potty chair, or on a step stool if he's on the regular toilet. Being able to plant his feet on the floor means that he can get on and off the potty or toilet easily, that he feels stable and secure when seated, and that he can push with his feet to give him leverage. All of these are important to independent toilet use.

Answer 4

Have your older kids show her how cool it is to use the potty... show her the new kinds of underwear she can use instead of diapers...
I work in a baby store, so I talk to parents all the time about what they do...
We sell so many different kinds of potty seats with designs on them... get one that has her favorite character on it...
then get her some underwear that matches... If your older ones show her that they love to use it, she will probably want to be just like them.

Answer 5

My son didn't want to potty train either. Diapers were easy, why switch? I finally just got rid of all the diapers. There were a few accidents, but he did really well. He just had to know that diapers were not an option anymore.

Answer 6

my 3 girls and every other girl i knew was easy to potty train and by their 2'nd birthday. Do not allow this obstinance to go on any longer, it's fine if she wants to be babied for awhile, but not when it comes to defiance. Real babies don't understand when you tell them words, but at 2 and one half- she is being disobedient.
Tell her she will get a spanking if she doesn't do as you say, and then carry through with it. 'Being ready' is a term that has been used for the past 25 years, it pertains to ages 18 months -24 months. Another thing, 'feed' her baby food from a jar, no food that she reguarly enjoys-and tell her she likes to be a baby so this is what babies eat.

Answer 7

Maybe she isn't ready. My son was 3 1/2 before he was potty trained and he did it himself. I didn't even have to take a bag of clothes "just in case" with me once he was ready.

For both my kids I just set up the training pot in the bathroom and took them with me when I went. When they were ready they started using it on their own. I never scolded them just praised them when they decided they were rready for it. Every child gets control of their bowels at a different time, so it might just be your daughter just needs to be exposed without pressure.

Answer 8

every child advances at different times in their life. she might not be ready to train just yet.
you can always try giving her another type of reward. my son would not go ig the toilet until just before his 3rd birthday. i got him to go by putting a small piggy bank in the bathroom and let him put change in it every time he went. when it would get full, i would let hem take it all out and buy something he liked. besides candy. like a toy. that got the ball rolling, and now he has no issues.

Answer 9

in time, she will not be a baby anymore so, you really have to train her at an early age. be gentle with her and take your time in training. just regard it as a play activity so that she will learn to like it.