How do I get my 3 yr old daughter potty train?

Answer 1

keep showing your daughter the toliet or potty and what is expected of her. then allow your daughter to train herself when she is ready. my son literally trained when he was ready himself i just kept encouraging him to go

Answer 2

I kept the potty in a place that my daughter wanted to be. That way she didn't feel as though she was missing out when she went on the potty. Read lots of potty books to her ie. "Once upon a potty" If she has any friends that are potty trained, arrange a play date so that she can see someone her age on the potty. Whatever you do, don't force it!! There are signs you can look for to see if she is ready. Is she dry in the morning? This is a good sign that she is ready to potty train. When my daughter was ready, she trained in a matter of days. She still has accidents once in a while, mostly when she is too busy playing to want to go, but she's doing really well. She is really proud of herself when she does go. I had a friend who forced her son and he has regressed three times and hates going on the potty.

Answer 3

First take her to the doctor to make sure there is no physical cause for the wetting. Then get her on a schedule. Get up - go to the bathroom. Every two hours - go to the bathroom. After a meal - go to the bathroom. After a nap - go to the bathroom. Make it a calm enjoyable experience. Have some special music in there or a special toy to hold. If she is wet when she gets there just say "oops lets see if you can go some more" and give her a couple of minutes. If she is dry say "Oh good still dry lets see if you can go on the potty.

This along with checking frequently to make sure that she gets used to the feeling of being dry and/or putting her in training pants that are cloth on the inside and a little time will usually do the trick.

Answer 4

I'm with PBnJ on this, I've worked in daycare and as a nanny and have toilet trained loads of kids, so be assured that this is common, you're not the only one in this situation. I've used.. 1) A reward system like the one descibed above, use stickers every time she goes on the potty and every 5 or 10 stickers she gets a little treat (like a new book or ice-cream), then a bigger treat after 50 (you can change how many she needs to suit your own situation, but you get the general idea) The big treat is something like an afternoon picnic in the park, it works best if the big treat is somewhere she'll have to use the potty cos then you can say she has to prove she can do it before you can go. 2) Have you tried cutting out the potty altogether and getting her to use the toilet? As she is a little bit older, maybe she would feel like a big grown-up girl using the toilet? Buy her one of those packs of kandoo toilet wipes, some fancy smelling handwash and a special hand towel, but she only gets to use them if she goes on the toilet. If you take her with you to get "her special things" she'll probably be more interested in using them. Make sure they're only for her - don't let the rest of the family use them. 3) Like PBnJ mentioned, you could try not giving her any attention when she goes in her pants. You don't say if it's just wees or poops or both, but I had one little boy who did both in his pants and refused to use the toilet/potty. In the end his mom decided to leave him in them (not for long, you don't want her to get a sore bottom cos that's a whole different set of problems!), say for 20 minutes or until she come and tells you. Don't make any fuss, just take the wet ones off, clean her up and give her clean ones to put on herself. If you can manage not to speak to her during this it's more effective. This method works in two ways - she'll be uncomfortable but also won't get any attention from you. I know it's frustrating, but keep at it, she'll get there in the end :o)

Answer 5

First she has to be showing interest in it like watching you or wanting to go on her own or flushing the toilet then what I did was a big deal about using the big potty and getting big girl panties and I took her to the store and let her pick out her own panties which she picked out Dora, fairy's and princess's so I would just tell her don't pee on the princess's and I would put her on the potty about every 45 minutes and she caught on very fast she got potty trained in a weekend and she was only 26 months old but she still wears a diaper for the evening but not for nap time it just takes time. Good Luck!

Answer 6

Hi, what i did with my little girl is I put potty training pants on her and took her to the bathroom about every 20 minutes. She didn't do so well to begin with but she got a little better and when she decided that she just didn't like the potty and wouldn't go....well what I did was reward her. Everytime she went to the potty I gave her a skittle candy. Skittle's and any kind of candy is a treat in our house. We dont' eat a lot of candy. So when she went potty she got the piece of candy. It worked out great. Candy may not work for your child so just think about what your child thinks is a reward. What is it that your child wants that they don't get often. Maybe a sucker, popcicle, toy, coloring book. What ever you think will work. Worked for us.

Answer 7

Discipline. And I mean for you mom! you must be disciplined and consistent in the training. Stick with it. Always take time to take her to the potty, even when u don't feel like it or are busy. And don't get angry when she goes somewhere else besides the potty. give her something salty (crackers, goldfish) which will make her thirsty. Give her plenty to drink and soon after take her to the potty. When she finally goes reward her with cheers, hugs, (and sometimes M&M's, lol). She'll begin to look forward to going and also get used to going on her own.

Answer 8

let her see you going...
put her on the potty every hour...
or put her to school - she will be potty trained within a day or two....
give her a sticker star each time she does it in the potty..
read her a book about it..
praise her when she does it..
most important never get angry with the accidents....
good luck.. and don't worry she will do it in the potty sooner or later... all humans being do....

Answer 9

CURRENTLY I AM POTTY TRAINING WITH MY GRAND DAUGHTER! THESE ADVICE I GAVE MY DAUGHTER. PUT PANTIES ON HER AND TAKE HER TO POTTY AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN, SING SONGS PLAY GAMES,I HATE PULL UPS!! IT HAS BEEN 6 WEEKS NOW AND SHE IS DOING GREAT!! REWARD FOR GOING ON POTTY 2 MM''S AND SHE IS 17 MONTHS. GOOD LUCK!!! TIME AND HARD WORK PAY OFF.

Answer 10

at night, you may still put her up a diaper before going to sleep,but be sure that you'll wake her up after 4 hours of sleep at night, and bring her to her potty so she could pee. do it again until it's morning already. an hour or two after waking up in the morning, bring her to her potty again to practice her doing her poo-poops.

takes a lot of practice to perfect this. jsut have to be patient.