Potty Training in One Day

My son was potty trained in one day, but that was because I learned the lesson from my daughter that when they are ready, you do not have to train them at all. I tried to train my oldest starting at the age of 2. She would pee in the potty with prompting, but was just not ready. We struggled for months, and I finally gave up. When she was almost 3, she decided one day she was ready and that was it, no more problems. I took this lesson with my son and did not eaven try to train him. He was a little older than 3 when he told me he wanted to use the potty and he was trained. He never even wet his bed after that. Good luck!

I'm sorry to say, but unless you're ok with YOU being the one trained right now, potty training isn't going to happen in a day for you. That's because she is not ready. First of all, she's only 2. But if she won't tell you when she's wet or needs to go - BIG RED FLAG that she's not ready. If it's a power struggle, she is taking control the only way she knows how - not getting on the potty. SHe's doing this to tell you she's not ready. They need to be physically and emotionally ready to do this. She's just not.

back off for a few months and revisit. She doesn't sound in any way like she's ready. And if she's fighting you, it's not worth the fight. You want her to have positive associations with this.

Children will learn the potty when they're ready. My son was very easy to train because I waited till he was ready. He had been following us in there, we had read lots of books about using the potty, and we talked about it. So he was prepared by us. We bought a potty seat together. But I waited until he was ready, and he learned in just a few days with no accidents (and some naked time to be able to run in there when he felt the need). It happened so quickly because he was ready. BTW, we also use cloth diapers so he didn't have the problem of ultra-absorbent paper diapers. He felt wet. We then moved to cloth trainers because they were easy for him to pull up and down himself.

I agree with others that she may not be ready, and if she's not ready I don't think any program will work.

Here are a few articles to help you decide if/when she's ready:

http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,24422,00.html

http://www.babycenter.com/0_potty-training-readiness-chec...

Yes. I trained my 3 year old boy in less than a day after trying many methods. My goal was to stop having 2 children in diapers (my daughter was 1 yr. at the time...sounds familiar). Answer: "Toilet Training in Less Than a Day", book by Arzan & Fox. Amazon has it. I followed it to a 'T' and it worked. In fact, so well that I trained my daughter at 23 months! But, you must do it exactly like the book advises. Basically, they have you use multiple motivational methods at the same time WHILE making staying in a messy diaper worse than going potty. If there is no discomfort (especialy with todays super absorbant diapers & pull ups), then why should a child be motivated to change? The training from the book made him "want to" change. Good Luck!

I don't agree that 2 years is too young. Many/most cultures train by 1 year. As a culture we are hooked into the disposable diaper marketing and afraid to be assertive with our children. This book was developed to get adults with extreme mental disabilities to get off diapers and it worked! In this economy, save your dollars and train the children. All it takes is a very concentrated effort. You think this is hard? Next will be getting them to pick up their room at ages 4-6. It's all the same effort UP FRONT by the parents.

I used how to Potty Train Your Baby In One Day and it worked like a charm. One Sat. morning and we had it! We used a Betsy Wetsy and a graham cracker award. I kept her in pull ups at night for a while, just in case, but they were always dry. Katie was 2 1/2 at the time.
Hope it works for you.

Every child is different.... My son was 3 and my daughter was 18 months when they were potty trained. I learned with my son, don't use pull ups (except at night and naps). I put my daughter in panties from the start and it was a week of accidents, but she figured it out she did not like being wet. I also gave m&m's ever time she went in the potty and kept a journal to track her progress (so I could see it was getting better). Also does your daughter use a little potty? If so try to bring it out to the living area (or whever you as a family spends most of your time) and then graduly move it back. This worked pretty good, it saves time when she says she needs to go, I had time to get her there. Also try taking,not asking her to the potty every 30-45 min. We also stayed home for a week straight to work on it, but it worked like a charm, huge difference between my daughter and my son! It might be a hectic week, but it is worth it. Good Luck!

My husband used that book for our son, 19 years ago and it actually did take one day! A pull up the first night and nothing the second, with only one accident.

I potty trained our daughter 9 years ago and didn't use the book. It was an on and off several month long nightmare.

Obviously, I recommend the book. Either that or my husband's timing was amazing!

I think more than anything our children need to have the security of knowing that you, who love and provide for them, know whats best for them. When you truly decide, it will happen :0)

I highly recommend these programs. PLEASE take the phone off the hook and tell friends and family that this will be a weekend of potty training and ONLY that. Do not allow any distractions.

Pam Humphries
Mother of a 21 year old, 28 year old and 32 year old all potty trained...LOL
Owner of Creative Corner Child Development Center

Yeah, I did the potty training in one day attempt. I spent $150 on our little princess potty party and it stressed me and my daughter out so badly that we abandoned ship by 1 that afternoon. Needless to say, it did not work. There was far too much attention on training and not enough attention on whether or not she was ready.

The biggest lesson I have learned from trying to pottytrain is that it is ALL up to your child. If she is not telling you that she needs to go, she may not be fully ready. She may be close, but not quite there yet. My daughter was not trained (daytime) until 2 months AFTER my 2nd daughter was born. I thought for sure that once my 2nd daughter was born it would be forever before my first daughter would be PT'd. And she just up and decided she didn't want to be in diapers anymore. Go figure. She was ready. And she was not night trained until she was almost 3 1/2.

Don't stress about training her at 2. All stressing will do is delay her from training. Most kids are not trained until they are 3 and sometimes, closer to 4.

Hang in there,
A.

I didn't read all of the posts, but I agree with some of the responses in that she may not be ready yet, and when she is, it will be immediate.

We got a book, and by the time I was sure my son was ready, he was already having his lovey pretend to go all on his own. This book encouraged having the child train a toy in the morning, and gradually s/he would go himself after lunch. He had already figured that out himself.

Once he was ready, he was trained overnight all on his own! He did have a few accidents at night for a while, but that had to do with other issues.

I used the Potty Training in 24 hours book by Foxx and Azrin and I highly recommend it. Follow it step by step and I am sure you will have success. I used it with my son and daughter and it worked really well. My sister in law used it with her son - and she had tried everything else with no sucess - and it worked very quickly. Good luck!
PS I just bought the book for a few bucks and a cheap peeing doll from Walmart - it doesn't have to be expensive.