Potty Trianing My 2 1/2 Year Old Girl

Well i have 3 year old twin girls and a 1 year old baby girl. I said from the first they will use the potty by 3. So what i did was let them run around the house naked and when they hd to use the potty they would go. I had potty chairs all over the house. Then we went to panties and by 3 they just started going to the potty. I never made them go or sa we were learning to use the potty they just did it on their own. Another thing you can do is get potty candy. My friend put some in a covered jar on the back of the big potty and her little girl would get just one everytime she used the potty. Oh i also gave mine gum when they went only because they thought it was something special. Good luck!

Hi C., I thought I'd weigh in on the side of putting her back in pullups. We did with our daughter. She realized that big girl panties were MUCH more comfortable and after a weekend back in those bulky papery pullups she was ready and willing to do whatever it took to stay in big girl panties! Use the panties as a reward for good behavior.

One more thought (I'm kinda on the fence here! lol) my sister-in-law replaced her daughter's pretty panties with plain white ones while her daughter was deliberately pooing in her panties. Her daughter got to wear the pretty ones if she had a successful day of going on the toilet. Best of luck to you and the other ladies are right; keep calm, go at her pace. It'll be over before you know it!

K.

Hi C.,

There is a program from babysigns.com that actually helps your child potty train. You can go to www.babysigns.com and find one in your area. Good Luck!

C. O

My daughter was the same. We tried from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 to train her and it really was a gradual process until she finally started going more and more on her own to the potty. The good thing is that when she was ready, she was fully trained with hardly any night time accidents and no on-the-go accidents ever! Hang in there. Don't push her. Keep it positive.

Let her pick out her own pretty big girl panties. Maybe a character she likes.

Sounds like she's just not ready. My eldest wasn't using the potty until she was 3 1/2 and she's perfectly normal now. :)

For both of our girls we've kept potties in the bathrooms and they could go in with us and sit if they liked. We had completely stress-free potty learning by allowing them to lead the way & not forcing the issue.

Good luck!

The best advice I can give is to just wait. Put her back in diapers or pull ups and just wait. When she is ready there's really no "training" involved - they just do it and it's so easy on everyone.
And I can't believe some one would suggest spanking (even one swat at a time) for potty training. That is horrible "advice".

My advice is to back off for a while. This is a control issue. Potty training is a big step and can sometimes cause a little anxiety. So you have to be as nonchalant as possible when she has these accidents -- and I know that's sometimes tough to do!

Of course, don't just stick her back in diapers and/or Pull-Ups. As frusrating as it is to you, keep her in her big girl undies. My eldest daughter has issues at the same age w/bowel movements, and for six months she kept BMing in her undies even though she was great with peeing. It was frustrating but, as she approached three years old, we started saying (but not too often, because that can have a negative effect) that three year olds poop on the potty. Well, within 3 weeks of her 3rd birthday, she completely stopped BMing in her undies. We reinforced this with a reward system worked well with her. We created a chart and hung it on the wall. For every day she did well she earned a sticker, which she put on the chart. At the end of each week we put a picture of a small prize (something from a dollar store, etc.) she would earn for doing well the entire week. And when she was completely potty-trained there was the "grand" prize (something a bit more significant but not over the top, like a doll or toy she's been yearning for, maybe in the $20 range).

Hi, 2 is just sometimes to early... Try again later

A. J

Hi C.,

My daughter did the exact same thing. We potty trained in one weekend and for months we had no accidents. Then all of a sudden she stopped telling us when she needed to go and had accidents all the time. I actually posted on here at that time asking for help. I found out from here and talking to alot of moms that they sometimes just revert back to their old ways for a little while. Ours lasted a few weeks and then we were back to normal. Just one day it stopped. We left panties on during the day but put Pull-ups on for naps and at bedtime. She's almost four now and still can't make it all the way through the night. Just give it a little time and see if she breaks out of it. If she was doing good before, then I'm sure she can do it again. Good luck! I know how frustrating it is!

I would think she is not ready. My daughter turned 2 in May and she is nowhere close to being ready. GOod Luck!

Hi,

This sounds mean, but I make 2-1/2 DS clean up his own mess when it is clear that he just didn't *want* to go to the bathroom. Sometimes he will tell me, "I am going pee-pee." Just standing there on the carpet! DH and I decided that we strip him down, walk him to the bathroom, make him sit (even though he is done), ask him where he is supposed to go, then make him wipe up the pee-pee and take the rag to the washing machine.
We aren't mad at him, just guiding him and showing him the consequences (wiping it up). This takes much longer than going to the bathroom to begin with, so he has to "miss out" more on whatever was so fun that he couldn't go in the first place.
I once found him in the bathroom putting his underwear (with poop in it) in the tub, running the water - so proud to be helping.

Good luck. I wouldn't think about the age - like other things, kids develop at different ages.

Best,
M.E.