can u please give me some good tips for potty training?

Question

I'm trying to potty train my daughter of 2 but with not too much luck.
She doesn't refuse it but is been 2 weeks and she still hasn't done anything in the potty.

Answer 1

firstly don't stress about it. and maybe leave the potty for a week or two then try again, when she is ready it will just happen. with my first child it took about 6 months before we cracked it. she would sit on the potty but do nothing so i took the potty away for a week then tried again, then i tried again and she just done it and we didn't look back. when you are doing it though don't put nappies on her she will get confused so invest in a lot of knickers as there will be a few accidents and leave the nappies even pull ups for bed time. hope this helps, we also bought a potty chair height as she didn't like the ordinary potty as it was too low. mothercare sells the chair type potty

Answer 2

We started potty training with our son at 2yrs, but found it was going nowhere. So we left it a few months, and put everything away and didn't even mention it. Then after a good break, we left the potty lying about and asked him to sit on it fully clothed. I read stories to him etc and we kind of used it as a chair. He got use to the feel of it. Then we progressed to sitting on it without pants. We still kept up with the toys and stories, and first thing in the morning, when we knew he needed a wee, we would sit him on it and tell stories etc. Over one weekend he was potty-trained. I think the need to go, plus the entertainment (sometimes we were like dancing clowns to keep him amused and sitting on the potty LOL) got the required result. We made a big to-do when he did a wee in the potty and gave him a Malteaser whenever he managed to do something.

Sometimes I think having a break from it helps. And when introducing it again change your approach so that it feels all new to the little one.

I wish you the best of luck. It is no easy feat, and every child is different.

Answer 3

Buy a potty first haha.
sit her on pot every day same time, ie, after meals.or before meal and first thing in morning and last thing at nite.
congratulate her when she does the slightest thing in it, make a fuss then.
show her by example?
give her some privacy, set up pot in bathroom.
occupy her when she sits on it.,book etc.
remind her whats expected.
dont tell off when no results. just point out theres no wee or whatever in pot.
dont make a big deal about the whole process, she will learn eventually.
maybe let her see another child using a potty.
children learn all sorts by examples shown to them.
now warm weather is coming, do away with the nappy and just have pants on when convenient, its creating a bit more washing but it should work more quickly and when she wets herself sit her on pot quickly and celebrate any that goes in the potty.
all this from a single dad of 2 girls who are now grown up.
good luck.

Answer 4

Put the potty in the toilet and get her to sit on it when you go, if she doesn't do anything then fair enuf but if she does reward her with a sticker or some other small surprise. also try and start and end the day with a trip to the potty or even on the big toilet with a training seat so she gets the idea to go then, and she's most likely to need to go when she first wakes up.

try also setting up a reward chart once she does start going on it occasionally and when she gets enuf she can have some sort of treat.

Answer 5

I am a mum to 4 children and the best advice i can give is not to rush her. You will know when she is ready, if you do it too soon you will cause her anxiety and it will take even longer.

I rushed my first child cos the second was born and wanted to save on nappies (sounds awful i know) but she is 9 and still has accidents. So i left my second till she was not far off 3 and she was ready and did it with in a few days, and was dry through the night, and has only ever had a couple of accidents.
I still have the other two to do yet but they are 20 months and i havent even thought about it yet, i will prob wait till long after their 2nd birthday. Good luck.

Answer 6

im goingthrough potty training at the moment with my 2yr old to what we do is when sheis in the house she wears nothing and we have a potty upstairs and downstairs

every child is differnt shemight ot be ready

you could do what im doing and today we are going out to get a new princess potty of her choice which make cheering nosies when you do somthing in it lol and a weeing doll and potty the bath time doll worksa bath time sofingers crossed it will for poty training to good luck:)

Answer 7

be patient with her. i trained my daughter last spring when the good weather started and i let her run around the house with no trousers on, and then put proper girls pants on her. i asked every half hour or so, if she needed to go etc... and i would sit her on the potty to make her understand what it is for, and when i went to the toilet she would usually follow, i would explain to her that what i was using (toilet) was the same as her potty and for her to do the same as mammy when she had to go, and she finally caught onto it herself.. she had a few oops of course. but i would definitely advise you to be patient. and not to get cross when she has a mistake and praise her when she does even just a dribble in the potty

Answer 8

maybe she has not had to go. Has she gone in her diaper instead? I hope so that is a long time to not go to the bathroom. My friend used something she called potty rewards. Each time her son went in the potty he got to put a new sticker on it. When he reached 30 stickers he got a new toy. After going in the potty for a month without accidents he got to go to chuckee cheeses with a friend.

Answer 9

Fisrt br patient and give it a little time. Try letting her watch you goto the loo and explain to her this is what " big girls" do. Don't he hard on her is she does not but make a big deal when she does. You could try an treat as a reward but I think this would just giver her ideas for the future. Best of luck to you. Dad of 1 ( 10 days off ) 15 month old boy.

Answer 10

I used the pull ups for about 3 months and realized we weren't going anywhere with them and just bought REAL big girls panties and let her wear those. I told her no going potty in them or you'll have to wear it alllllll day (which i'd never make her do). She had a few uh ohs, but she caught on. The key is to be patient.