Potty Training - Oklahoma City,OK

My advice is to nix the pull-ups. My son never wore them, except at night. Go straight to underwear. It confuses them, because it pulls up like underwear, but it's not all that uncomfortable to go in them. If they go in underwear it gets cold and feels very weird. Yes, you will have a lot of accidents that first week, but it will be done sooner. Good Luck

thats where my little girl is too...she only voluntarily goes to her little potty though...not the kid ring in our toilet. Maybe try one of those?

You're doing exactly what we did, even the dvd. Just keep encouraging potty time and acting disappointed at accidents. Reward her when she goes in the potty (and eventually you'll have to slowly take away the rewards when she's totally potty trained). It won't happen until she's ready though so just be patient and do whatever you can to help--you're really almost there!

We had to go cold turkey with the pull-ups and switch to underwear and plastic pants. She was just too comfortable in the pull-ups. We did try and you might try this is underwear under the pull-up. It didn't work for us but it worked for others. We also got a little more firm with her about it once we knew she was capable of doing it. To her is was kind of a game before. I also promised that she could go to dance class once she was potty trained and that was a big incentive.

I have 3 girls and all of them where diffrent. my oldest we ended up doing the penny bank thing. when she would go potty like a good girl she got money in her penny bank, when she messed her pants money came out.

our 2nd found out really fast that doing #2 on the potty was easier then in her pants to the #1 was the hardest for her but the letting her go potty out side if she had to helpped on that. thought i had her about half way there before i left out of town for almost 2 weeks. when i came back home daddy and his parents had her completly potty trained.

our youngest was a combo of both of them really.

now we are working on the potty training over night. for the most part with our two oldest and our kids are ages 3, 5, and 7.

I am now trying to potty train my son he is also 2 1/2 years old. He has his days where he will go to the potty but other days he refuses. Throws fits and everything. My husband and I made a chart. Bought some stickers and everytime he uses the potty he gets a sticker and the end of the week if he does a good job (4-5) a day he gets a toy. Usually a toy car (the $0.97) ones. He does a pretty good job. But the one thing that my mom told me was that it's our job to tell them to potty. I put my son every 30 min but after he eats I usually only wait about 15 min. And until he pees then I leave him alone and go back to every 30 mins. He hasn't do #2 every well but we are working on it. I hope this is some help to you. Good luck.

Does she need to be potty trained now? I have friends who worked really hard at potty training, rushing to the bathroom, dealing with cleaning up accidents. When our oldest son turned three, we told him he couldn't go to pre-school unless he only went potty in the potty. He wanted to go to pre-school and was old enough to control his bladder, so he just started going in the potty. We never had an accident because he was able and it was something he wanted to do.

My son liked to watch Elmo Potty Time DVD, we have a potty like Elmo's at home,so he just goes to use the potty like Elmo.Actually there are some other DVDs with the same idea,I hope you can find something for your child.

I would say, she is not ready to be potty trained. There is a lot of social pressure to potty train those kids. But I have three children, all of which were potty trained at different ages. But usually most are around the age of 3 years old. A pediatric specialist talked to me about this because I struggled with potty training also. I had three children in five years and financially and mentally I really wanted them potty trained asap. The pediatrician said that it is two things that cause a child to be potty trained, one is emotional maturity to want to be potty trained. But the big one is, you have to understand that children are able to be potty trained because the muscles that allow us to be able to have bladder control don't usually become fully developed in children until they are almost three. Maybe consider that she just isn't ready. It isn't fun for either or you to keep pushing if it just isn't her time. Here is a web link you can copy and paste from the American Academy of Pediatrics site, when you get to the page click on "when is the right time to start toliet training".... Good luck! Link: http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/toilettraining.cfm

When my 5 year old daughter turned 2, I took a one week vacation from work to focus on potty training. I also made sure we didn't have to go anywhere. I put her in a simple little dress. Thats it. No panty, no diaper. Many friends told me that little girls don't like the feel of anything running down their legs. When they start to go, they will stop and tell you. I set the timer to go off every hour to remind me to take her to the bathroom. I would sit her on the regular toilet(we put a step stool in front of it so she could reach it). I also bought a package of Dum Dum suckers she could choose from if she suceeded. I don't normally keep candy in the house, so this was a big treat. I kept a very close eye on her and I could tell if she had to poop. If I saw the "signs" we headed to the bathroom. She had a few tiny accidents, but she was potty trained within 3 days. Every one I know who has tried this has had great results. Good Luck!

I have twin girls ~ 4 ~ that potty trained without much fuss. Their favorite candy is jelly beans and I sat a bowl of them on the back of the potty. We chunked the pull ups, put on big girl panties and set the time for every thirty minutes. When the timer went off, the girls would yell potty party and away we would go. I too used the potty insert to help with balance. When they were successful, they got one jelly bean. With in just a few days one was completly trained and the other was well on her way. I used plastic panties over their big girl panties to save my furniture when the accidents did occur. Neither liked the plastic feel nor the wetness so that was an incentive not to pee in their undies also. Best of luck!

Some may not agree but I suggest bribery. I did it with both my kids and it helped alot. Some small treat or candy she can have after she uses the potty. You can take her to the store and let her pick our her favorite underwear, tell her she can't wear them unless she pees on the potty all the time. My daughter really wanted to wear her pretty underwear. I know it's hard at first but you may want to just take away the pullups (except for bedtime if she doesn't have control yet). Going back and forth can be confusing, if you tell her it's time for big girl panties and she pees herself a few times she may decide the potty is better. You can also talk about how big kids who go to school have to go on the potty. Good luck

I would agree with the last response. My son is 3 yrs old and was just potty-trained this past August. We too used pull-ups, but he wasn't "getting it." A friend of ours suggested just going straight to underwear. I had done that before, but I hated the messes and constant laundering of clothes. But that's what finally did it for him. We did it...went straight to underwear. I made sure there were about 3 days straight that I didn't have anything else to do so we could work solely on potty-training. We did use pull-ups at night for a little while, just until we saw that he was consistently waking up dry.

Also, with the underwear, I would make sure he went to the bathroom about every 20 minutes at first. If he didn't go then, I'd make it 10 minutes, then 5 minutes... until he went on the potty. I also kept a chart with stickers. That was not only helpful for HIM as he LOVES stickers, but it was also helpful for me to be able to see the pattern more clearly so we wouldn't be going to the bathroom every 10-20 minutes.

Just keep working at it. Some kids aren't ready when you think they are...or ought to be. We didn't think our son would EVER get it.

I would recommend saving the pull-ups for when you are out and keeping her in panties during the day at home. It may seem like she could care less about wetting them, but compared to a diaper and pull-ups, she may just need time to realize why her panties are getting wet. I put the potty chair where my daughter could see it. We spend the majority of the day in our living room...so I put it against the wall just outside of the bathroom. She saw it and remembered better that she needed so use it. Once I quit using the pullups...she was potty trained within a couple of weeks. She was fully potty trained at 15 months. It will happen...just be positive & consistent! And don't forget praise for doing it...sometimes I'd give her a sticker, a skittle, but mostly I just freaked out and did our "pee pee dance" when she would go on the potty. She is 3 now and still praises herself and dances :) Make it fun.