Potty Training - Kansas City,MO

Go to 3 DayPottyTraining.com I used it with my son, and it works. He has been potty trained for 1 1/2 month and everything has gone awesome.

I have the 3-day potty training guide. IT WORKS GREAT!!! I will be happy to email it to you...

I have just one daughter also, she is 9 now, and I wil tell you how I potty trained her in under a week.
These diapers these days are very good, hell my daughter never even new half the time that she was wet, that is what gave me the realization that if they dont know they are wet, then they will never know the sensation they feel before they go. Those pull ups are the same as a diaper they just pull up and down, they are really for accidents.
So I bought her those old style potty pants that I found at a moms resale shop, you know the kind they used to have us wear that have plastic on the outside,
I turned them inside out so the plastic touched her skin.
This way she could feel the sensation of having to go then go and then realize what just happened, she didn't like the feeling of being wet at all.
After a while she caught on, and of course we have had a few accidents in her panties after that, but for the most part pretty easy.

My daughter was almost 3 before she was potty trained; it just wasn't a priority for her. She is one who likes to be rewarded, so I made up a chart for her that she could put stars on (mostly as a visual for her). I told her that if she could be potty trained before her birthday that I would buy her a pool (wading, of course). That was all it took. I had found something that she wanted bad enough that she was willing to try for. For your daughter it might be something different, but she is going to have to be the one willing to give up the diaper, or it'll be a constant battle for you.
We also did not use Pull-Ups. I would ask her often to try but she still had accidents. I just always had an extra pair of panties and pants. As is the case for most kids, she hated to be wet and so would start going w/o even being told to.

when you are serious about potty training be consistant. Pull-ups are just like a diaper and prolong the process. Use training pants and take them potty often. I set a timer for every 10 minutes then progressed to more minutes as they got the idea. I also had a piece of paper taped to the door and everytime they went potty I put a sticker on that paper and when the paper got full I would get a new one but seeing all those stickers on the paper after a week made them feel good about going potty. It takes a lot of patience and once you get started, don't give up. sometimes it helps to start documenting the times you change their diapers but you want to be checking them often so you know approximately what time they actually went potty in their diaper, so you get an idea if they are going potty about the same time everyday then you could make sure you take them at those times of the day. Every child is different so what works for one may not work for another. I have 3 kids and each one was potty trained at a different age but I do know that the key was staying consistant and not giving up. With my 3rd one he took the longest because I had a very busy life at that time and could not stick with it as much as I wanted to but I did find a week that I was less busy and committed that week to potty training and he was trained in a few days and none of my 3 kids were bed-wetters either. We did not use pull-ups at night once they started training. Kids know that it's ok to potty in diapers and pull-ups feel the same so they will continue to potty in them as long as they are wearing them so then they get trained to wet the bed if they wear them only at night. I would use the training pants with the built in plastic for them at bedtime and if they wet at night it wouldn't get their bed all soaked. Also make sure you get a mattress cover so it keeps the mattress dry if they do have an accident that leaks out of the pants. They will have an occasional accident even years after they are potty trained. We still have covers on our beds because the kids get sick often in their beds. We use the cloth mattress covers now though because the plastic type make them sweaty and they don't like it but since they don't wet the bed the cloth ones are fine.
It's best if you can take a few days off work and just concentrate on potty training. It will make a huge difference in how fast the process goes. One of my favorite books was Bye Bye Diapers. It was a Muppet book with Miss Piggy. I still remember the poem in that book and my youngest is 8 now. We read it to all 3 of our kids when they were potty training. You may find the book at the library as we bought that book 14 years ago and don't know if it is still in any of the stores but it is a simple book and kids like books that have a rhyme to it when you read it.
Don't waste your money on a musical potty chair. We had one and it didn't work right half the time and that potty chair was the worst one for leaking. I don't know how but somehow there would be a lot of pee on the floor when they went and the music would scare them and make them stop peeing then they didn't want to finish because the noise scared them. The cheaper one did better and we bought those potty seats that you put on the toilet so when they were able to go on their own they wouldn't fall in. some of the potty chairs have seats that detach and fit on the toilet but I didn't like those and just bought the soft cushy seat seperately as they are easier to use. Good luck with the adventure of potty training.

Hey K.,
I watched Dr. Phil about this and he suggested a doll that pottys and (poops if you can get that special effect)!Put it next to the potty chair she uses or wherever she goes. That has helped my grand baby. Just asking every half hour or so helps too!
J.

all the other advice is good and i wanted to stress the main point - wait until she's ready! they all figure it out eventually and she will get it in no time when she figures out the system - kids love doing things on their own. pushing when she's not interested will only be upsetting and probably make it much worse than it has to be. once she's "ready" i'm sure she'll get it in no time. good luck!

K.,
I had good luck using 'pull-ups' on my son and sitting he on his training toilet in front of the tv every few hours. He loved to watch cartoons so he was to stay on the potty until he went and then we praised with with clapping, hugs, kisses and maybe a treat of some sort. We made it a big deal that he was real close to wearing "big boy" pants! I got the tv idea from Parents as Teachers who said place your child on the toilet frequently doing things they enjoy--watching tv, reading books with them, telling a story, maybe singing songs.
Good luck
angi

Does the child stay at home with her father during the day? If so you guys just have to come up with a routine that work's for the both of you as well as your daughter. In the mornings depending on the time you leave get her up & put her on the potty. Every two hours or so she needs to be taken to the potty to sit there & try to use it. You should make sure she goes before bed, don't give her liquids after a certain time & always take her to the potty with you, so that she can see what a girl is suposed to do while using the potty. You might try to make her area as comfortable as possible like having some books there, a little bell so she can let you know (she did it!) & toilet paper that's close to her. Teach her to count off squares (so she doesn't empty the roll) & teach her the words you want her to use...I taught mine potty is to sit on, pee-pee/wet to urinate & stink is for poop. So when he'd say I got to go pee-pee/ I'm wet...I knew it was to urinate & if he said I got to go stink...I knew it was to poop. Come up with words that your comfortable with the child saying to you & in public:-). I did take him & drill him (when was being stubborn) & make him say with me pee-pee (point at his weetie), stink (point at his buttocks) & potty (to let him know that's where he must go). It helped & at times he'd pee-pee & come tell me (I used training & rubber pants) & I wouldn't move right away to change him because he didn't like being wet, so that taught him to come & let me know verses using pull-ups because that allows the wetness to be pulled away from the child. Use your better judgement & I wish you luck & God Bless!

www.3daypottytraining.com It totally worked for our son and he potty trined himself in less than 1 day including day and night and never a diaper or pullup again. Only underwear and never any accidents either. Amazing!!!! I think it will work best when they are REALLY ready to do it. He was 2 years and 3 mths and his cousin was trying to potty train and she was getting a lot of praise when she went potty so he woke up one day and said he wanted to throw his diapers away today. Good Luck!!!!

Summer is coming soon so this is what worked best with both of my girls my little boy was much easier.

I would not use pullups or any other "bigger kid" diaper type device. I would let them soak themselves. Sounds cruel huh? Not really, I did a lot of laundry at first but they DID NOT like the wet feeling. It was annoying to them often enough that they eventually wanted to be dry. My pediatrician reccommended it. He said pull ups defeats the purpose its just a more expensive diaper.

Just a thought HTH.

Take away the diapers, use only pretty girl panties, no long pants the 1st few days. It's best to do this in the warm months. Let make a few mistakes of making puddles on the floor and rushing her to the bathroom and letting her sit on the pottie by herself. If she can't reach the big toilet use a little chair. Help her to clean her own soiled panties and that will help her to realize where she needs to put her pee and poop. If you want you can call me. I've broke over 10 children this way. No spanking , no scolding only praise works. C. Elliott ###-###-#### Do this when you are home.

I think the key to potty training is to wait untill they are darn good and ready. My son was 2 years and 10 months old. We had suggested and encoucaged it at earlier times but we never pushed it. At this time he just did it on his own really, there was no stress, no worry, nothing. We did give him a dumdum sucker for pooping on the potty and a sticker for peeing. He had some accidents and still does (5months later) but they are very infrequent and seem to occur when he is to "busy." If he has an accident I just remind him that he was supposed to put it in the potty. A natural consiquence has been that if he poops in his pants the underware get thrown in the trash. We don't do this as a punishment but just tell him that Mommy isn't going to wash poop pants, and it worked out to motivate him because he doesn't want his big boy pants to go in the trash. Again, this is not used as a punishment or threat, if so I think it would backfire. I have a neice that will be 3 in July and she has no interest in or desire to go potty. One time, she woke up from her nap dry, so I thought that I'd put her on the toilet, she just cried. So, we'll wait and try her later. Again, I don't think it should have to be a struggle just wait until your girl is very ready and it will be so much easier on yourself, your husband and your daughter. Also I am a firm none believer in Pull-ups kids are not dumb and know this is a diaper. We do use pull-ups for bedtime only. I also use a seat that fits on the big toilet. I did not see the since in teaching him to use a potty that would have to be cleaned after each use and then he would have to be retrained to use the big potty.

Can I recommend Brazelton's book?

http://www.amazon.com/Toilet-Training-Brazelton-T-Berry/d...

This book really helped me a lot. He stresses the importance of waiting until you see the signs of readiness, including being able to undress by herself, showing interest when the parents use the toilet, etc. Also, that kids are self-motivated, that is, they don't need to be pushed or rewarded, they want to do it for themselves. I didn't think we were pushing our daughter at all, until I read this book and saw the signs. So we backed off completely and let her take the lead. Now she is doing much better. She is well past her third birthday. That might seem old to some, but there are many factors that come into play in determining a child's readiness for such a big achievement.

I've heard about the 3-day methods, and people rave about them, but my concern is that if a child isn't really ready it could feel like heavy pressure to do something she just isn't able to yet. I'm pretty sure that would have been the case with my daughter. All kids are not alike, what works for some won't work for others. So I would be approach cautiously and engage your parental instincts to choose what's right for your kid.

Does your kid go to daycare? If so have them help you with it that is what I had to do when I worked outside of the home. And just keep working with her when you are home. Yes it is hard I went through the same thing it took a while about a year or so my girl is now 3 she will be 4 this May and she still kinda wets the bed here and there. But if you just have the babysitter help you and you work with her when you are home she will get potty trained. My advice for when you take her to the babysitter and at home take her little potty chair that she uses at home to the babysitter and then bring it home so she is using the same one and and get the one that you just put on the toilet. Every time you go to the bathroom have her go with you and when you are done have her do the same and tell her to do what mommy did and be a big girl. Let me know if this helps. My name is N..

Does she have her own potty chair? I would talk to her about it if you haven't done so already.This is what I did with my son when he was 2 we started to offer him to sit on potty and go peepee before bath time while your getting bath ready have her sit down and try then you can gradually increase it.First few day's or weeks potty beofre bath potty in the morning when you wake up before and after breakfast soon she'll get the idea.Be sure to be consistant though on the potty chair if she refuses one day then fine wait to offer it again later.There are movies and books to at the store that work great
sahm of 2

I just got done potty training my 3 1/2 year old. We had been trying for about 8 months then I tried the 3 day potty training. You can get it online. It worked great! Not sure what your schedule is but it requires 3 full days (24 hours a day) but if she catches on quick you can do it in 2 days. It is really about giving all your attention to her, which she will love! and letting her tell you when she is ready. It can be done with help as long as everyone follows the rules outlined in the manual. Believe me we tried everything! This worked like a charm and by the middle of the 1st day he was almost there. Good luck.