Best Ideas for Potty Training?

Yes! I've posted about this before. Get Alona Frankel's "Once upon a potty" book and video! There is one for boys and one for girls. The little girl is named Prudence, and she is learning to potty train! There is a catchy song that your daughter will love to sing, and soon she'll want to mimic Prudence. Also, put a potty in your living room and tell her that is her dolly's potty. Put her in charge of bringing dolly to the potty. This makes her the teacher, and soon she'll be going to the big potty while the little one is just for her "babies". Finally, when she does go, celebrate!! Loudly! :) You are doing great putting her on in the morning-- keep doing it then and before bed, as well as about 30 minutes after each mealtime. All of these strategies together should work. Both of my daughters were potty trained this way at very young ages. I never pushed them- as soon as they showed any interest in the potty, I got the video, and within a week, totally potty trained on the big potty! I feel like I need to spread the word on that one b/c it was just so easy!
Good luck!

Wow @ the difference between potty training girls vs. boys! My DS was no where near ready to potty train at 14 months. In a way I guess I wasn't either considering he's my one and only. He's 3.4 yrs and I would proudly say completely potty trained. His sitter really nipped it in the bud for us and I followed her lead. (After raising seven boys of her own she is a pro!) Right now DS only wears a pull up at night, and when he can go through the night with a dry pull up I will stop putting him in pull ups for bed. The rest of the time he is in underwear and I ask, mostly tell, him to go to the bathroom every thirty minutes. When we leave the house I tell him to go potty. When we reach our destination I ask him to potty again. He did great this weekend and only had one accident, which I could tell upset him. I don't fuss at him about it, I just tell him when he gets that feeling to let me know so we can potty. He poops in the potty too....oh, and some times locks me out of the potty at home for his "privacy". Only at home, not anywhere else. Everywhere else he wants me with him. DS actually told his Daddy and cousin this weekend, "I'm not finished!" and shut the door in their face. I thought that was hilarious - but I was the one with DS in the bathroom. :-D

She sounds like my daughter! This is what I did...I hope you try it because Naomi did exactly what your little girl is doing! Every morning I gave her a choice of diaper or panty. If she chose a panty, I was on her like white on rice! Watching her every move! By about noon, she would be tired and want her "iper". If she chooses diaper, give her the choice agian the next diaper change. One day after about 2 weeks of diapers she chose panty again...We have not gone back to diapers! Just remind her that you go pee-pee or poo-poo in the bathroom, not your panty. BE FIRM! I usually reminded her as I put on her panty and through out the day. As far as putting her on the potty in the mornings and after naps, what I learned with Naomi is that she's usually still too groggy to go. In the mornings I'll change her out of her pj's and into her panty and clothes and wait till she wants to go-it's usually about 1 hour later after wake up time. One more thing, if she chooses panty and pee-pees, leave them wet for some time (15-30 minutes whichever you feel comfortable with) then when you change her tell her how yucky and she needs to tell you when she needs to go to the potty next time so she doesn't feel yucky anymore. Be firm here too. PS Pull ups didn't work for us, I think they felt too much like diapers to her. Ask me anything on this! I really think your daughter will potty train herself like Naomi did. There really was no hard work on my part-only reminding and talking about it. Let me know how it goes! :) A.

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