Potty Training - Panama,NY

I think Melissa is right on! If potty chairs could do something cool like flush or talk to ya or something, maybe they'd be easier. I, too, stayed at home for six years and am so glad I did because you get to see the wheels turning and all. It's fascinating! If you get down on all fours and see the world from a two-year-old perspective, you are enlightened. A potty chair is like the basket in a coffee maker or something. You sit on a hard surface, pee, and then you have to tell somebody and then they take that awful smelling stuff and make a big dang deal out of it and pour it into the place you figure you should be sitting in the first place. And they never let you pull the handle and flush anything! I wouldn't go in a potty chair either! I remember my husband and I singing "Potty all night long" like the song "Party All Night Long" when my son used the potty chair ... like a couple of idiots ... dancing around and all. My son looked at us as if we were from Mars. I think he used it just to see us act like idiots! He is 24 now and in law school. I remember once his father asked "do you have to go pee pee?" and he responded, "No, cuz 'pee pee' isn't a word." I think the answer is that you have to get down to about two feet tall and just see the world from that perspective once in a while.

I have a daughter that is 5 and when we were potty training her, it was very frustrating. She was about 2.5 years old when she was completely trained. She would go through periods where she would do really good and then suddenly she would stop and it would feel like we had to start all over again. Even though your daughter won't sit on the training potty it is good she has the ideas by telling her dolls to. My daughter liked to sit on the big potty at first because she felt like a big girl. Because she wanted to do this we found the small cushion seats to place on the normal toilet seat. I don't know if that would work for your daughter or not as to each child is different and will respond in different ways. The best thing to do is just keep consistent on encouraging her to use it and I am sure that she will get it soon. Just a thought, since she puts her dolls on it, tell her that one of them doesn't know how to do it and see if she could show her doll how to. I hope she will get it soon.

Actually, I think you are off to a great start! The fact that she is playing with her dolls and talking to them about going on the potty is a good thing! And you cannot make a child ready. My daughter was almost completely potty trained at two and then her baby brother was born. Once we brought him home from the hospital, she wanted NOTHING to do with the potty and totally regressed. She didn't decide to use the potty for good until she was about 30 months. The key phrase being "SHE didn't decide." Your daughter will start using the potty when she is ready to take that step, but it sounds like you are definitely on the right track just having her get used to the idea of the potty and having it available for her. Don't push the issue with her, because it seems like a lot of times this makes the child resist even more. My guess is that it's a control issue. If she knows she is in control of whether or not to use the potty, she'll be more likely to excercize that control. And she is only two. My son turned two last month and is not anywhere near potty trained. He has a little Spongebob seat for our toilet and he sits on it, but only sometimes actually goes. And no number 2's yet. But I am hopeful. At least he is open to the idea. Don't get too stressed about it yet, it's not like she's 5 years old and not potty trained. Good Luck.

My little girl uses an adapter seat on the big potty. We've never used a small training potty for her or two of her three older brothers. They've never had issues going on the big potty since that's where Mommy and Daddy go. You might want to try that approach. You can buy the seat adapter at Wal-Mart; they're not that expensive and they last a while. (I've had the same one since my 10-yr-old was 2!) If she's making her dolls go to the potty, maybe she's at the point where she understands the process but doesn't want to do it yet.

My daughter understood the process at 15 months and would occasionally go on the toilet. She didn't really start using the toilet regularly until about 28 months. We bought our daughter Dora underwear since Dora is her favorite character and that seemed to be the motivation she needed for getting out of diapers. She only wears her Dora underwear during the day and protests the Pull-Ups at night!

Something else I do with my daughter is to make a game of going to the bathroom. When it's time for her to go (if she doesn't tell me she needs to go) I tell her I'm going to the bathroom and I'm going to go first. That usually gets her away from her current activity and running to the bathroom yelling, "I go first!" This may not work if your daughter isn't the competitive or jealous type, but it makes potty training more fun for us.

MY daughter peed her pants once and hated it. after that she was willing to go more on her own. give her time she will go. my daughter was 3 when that happened. dont get frustrated it will happen

Hang in there.She is still getting use to the idea probably.Just keep encouraging her to use it.Bring her in the bathroom when you go.Try just sitting her on it with her diaper still on.Buy her a book or video about the potty or on potty training.

When she puts her dolls on the potty ask her if it went. If she says yes then pick up the doll, spin it around, and yell "yay, good job". Then ask the doll if "you would like a special treat for using the potty like a big girl". Throw a mini party and make a huge deal out of the doll going. Your daughter should love that so much that she'll want the same treatment.

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