she was doing well for awhile and would tell me when she had to go, but now she doesn't tell me at all and i'm so frustrated. i think having a soiled diaper doesn't bother her so that is making it harder to potty train her. she just doesn't seem to care. she knows what is going on b/c we talk about it all the time and she has an older sister that is potty trained and she sees her telling me when she has to go and wearing panties. i don't know what else to do. any advice would be greatly appreciated!
2007-09-23 17:33:14 · 8 answers · asked by motherof3 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Have you tried some type of reward system? We used a reward chart for our son and put him in charge of it. Each time he went potty in the toilet without being asked he got a sticker (in creating the chart we brought him to the store and let him pick out all the stickers). Then for each 5 stickers he got a treat and at each 10 he also got a dollar. Putting him in charge of it really helped, and the chart was a way for us to keep track.
2007-09-23 17:45:57 · answer #1 · answered by Heather Y 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am having that problem with my daughter too. I have asked her DR a hundred times. He just says "She'll let you know when its time." "Some kids take longer than others" Its hard changing a 3yr olds diaper and it makes it harder when family and friends say "Id make her go to the potty, I wouldnt buy anymore diapers" etc... So what can you do? I will not take her into the store wet or poopey b/c of what othe people think. My best friends daughter wasnt potty trained until she was almost 4. Ive been told that when kids stop having wet diapers at night then thats a good time to start. Good luck
2007-09-23 17:47:18 · answer #2 · answered by luv my animals 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hun it sounds like a potty strike. She knows what you want her to do but it's a control issue between you and her. I don't happen to agree with the idea that going back and forth between diapers/unders confuse children. My son understood at 2 that you don't poo/pee in unders. He'd hold it until he could get a pull up on and then go.
Personally the longer you "push" the issue the longer you're going to have a little girl who doesn't go in the potty and makes life difficult for you. When she's ready she'll do it and until then you can't really do much to force the issue.
I found with my 3 yr old son the best thing was to go absolutely nuts with praise if he even just tried to go potty. Then if he did do even just a few drips of pee I would go ape and tell him how proud I was and how daddy will be so happy with him. He just happens to be a daddy's boy. Substitute whoever it is that she adores and then let her tell that person that she went potty. It worked really well with our son.
2007-09-23 18:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by starfire978 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
attempt getting some youngster's books approximately utilizing the potty. enable her carry a toy or a e book mutually as she's on the potty. helpful sometimes works, yet while it maintains she will think of each time she is going she gets a take care of and which would be undesirable later on while she's 4-5 yrs previous and you end giving them to her, she'll get disillusioned and could no longer understand why. attempt the underclothes ingredient and get the plastic ones that circulate over so it would not make a large number yet you're't procuring diapers. perchance letting her circulate on herself and sitting in it for a mutually as somewhat than changing her actual away will help. She'd be exceptionally unfomfortable and could no longer like the way it feels and you will instruct her, "see, it is the reason we circulate potty on the toilett so it is not yucky on your pants." enable her watch you circulate so she sees that mommy does it. do no longer stress her to take a seat on the potty each and all the time, yet ask her does she experience the pee pee in her tummy coming yet? that's what worked with our son. Use exhilaration once you communicate approximately it so she thinks its some thing exciting. There are additionally (i do no longer understand the style you experience approximately elmo, some mom and dad do in contrast to sesame highway) yet there are Elmo potty time video clips you need to get for like $7-$8 and our son liked that too. She might suprise you and purely promptly do it on her very own. Do you have a baby's potty? in case you do, placed it interior the play room/front room the place she will see it lots and perchance enable her use it even purely randomly mutually as you're interior the front room enjoying and he or she will associate it with sturdy issues. perchance sitting on an excellent potty interior the bathing room is frightening for her actual now. ultimate of success
2016-10-05 06:29:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know its frustating but the fact is, she isnt going to do it till shes good and ready.
If shes in diapers take her out of them completly. make a show of saying bye-bye to them, and throw them away. tell her big girls dont wear diapers they wear big girl underwear. then STICK TO IT!! no matter how many times a day you have to change her panties. going back and forth just confuses her and sends mixed messages that sometimes its ok to pee my pants, and sometimes not.
Whatever you do, dont scold her or make her feel bad, make no comment at all when she has an accident , just say, uh-oh , lets go change yur panties. then leave it alone. If you react it will become a way of getting attention. Its possible shes resistant to the idea of becoming a big girl, thinking she wont get as much attention as when she was a "baby".
2007-09-23 17:47:50 · answer #5 · answered by ChynaRush 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ignore her! That's right! I believe that in a multiple child family that kids are looking for attention from their parents. Even though this seems disgusting to you, she gets your attention doesn't she? Have her promise, for example, grandma that she will do it . Then you can say "Remember what you promised Grandma?" This removes the parent from the attention seeking. You can give her a reward after 20 or 30 days from Grandma. Of course use any person that she likes, not necessarily Grandma. You'll find out early enough whether its working and once she is doing it herself you can say "Grandma is going to be so proud of you!" It'll work. Young kids don't think the way adults do
2007-09-23 17:51:12 · answer #6 · answered by Ya Hooey 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
take her underware shoping it will b fun let her pick out her own and get her on a potty schedule and let her wear the pretty panties over the pull up when she makes it in the potty over paise her smiles hug and kissies when she dosent make an ugly face and say yuck when u channge her say we gotta keep the pretty panies clean cause thats what big girls do it works belive me
2007-09-24 07:59:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep her in diapers. it won't hurt
2007-09-25 10:56:53 · answer #8 · answered by Ben C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋