How to Potty Train a 2 Year Old Girl

It's possible your daughter isn't ready to train if she just doesn't seem to "get it." I've asked lots of parents when and how their kids were successfully trained, and I've done a great deal of research on the subject. It seems pretty uniformly true that the quickest, lowest-stress success occurs only when child shows most of the signs of readiness, which may occur as late as 3 or 4. (Here are some helpful checklists: http://www.parentingscience.com/toilet-training-readiness...) Girls are usually, but not always, mature enough earlier. Children with developmental or speech delays are often somewhat slower.

What I think of as "pre-training" can be started to good effect with much younger children – helping them become acquainted with the potty, perhaps practice sitting, reading stories and watching videos about using the potty, role-playing, getting supplied with big-kid undies, etc. All these things can encourage the child to think positively about the process, and may promote emotional readiness.

The necessary physical and nervous development just take whatever time they take. Children who are "trained" because their parents remind them and/or physically take them to the potty every ___ minutes aren't actually trained. The parents are.

When a child is ready, she'll take to potty training with the same tenacity as when she learned to crawl, walk, or talk. And the actual training can take anywhere from a day to a couple of weeks, with parents supporting the child's lead. But no charts or rewards are generally needed. Just the child's own eagerness to move into her next stage of development.

She's really young unless she's nearly three. It's going to take a lot of work at this age and may backfire. Just go with her cues and don't push. That's my advice.

I know all children are different so I will tell you what worked for my daughter. We started on Memorial Day Weekend (when both my husband and I had a three day weekend), she was about 20 months old. We both also worked full time so we wanted to establish some kind of routine before going back to work. Leading up to it we explained to her that she will not be wearing any more diapers, just underoos (thick cotton training pants) and we had been reading a book about potty training to her for about two weeks so she was familiar with the idea. Get one in a character she really enjoys. We took away the diapers and simply told her that she will not be wearing these anymore that she cannot go in her pants any more. We explained everything to her and she understood. I do not know if this is common as she was our first. It really does help if you can devote one weekend to this and stick with it!
She really enjoys almonds as a snack so I took away all almond privileges a few days before (so she would really want them). I was hesitant on the reward policy but it worked. Every 10 or so minutes we asked her if she was wet or dry so she understood the difference and that "dry" was a good thing. We praised her when she was dry and she began to get excited when she was dry. For those three days we went nowhere (no exaggeration) and literally lived in the bathroom. We dedicated those three days to her, it was essentially a potty training boot camp (without any harsh conditions :). We pumped her FULL of liquids and foods high in fiber (for her bowel movements). We started with a timer and put her on the potty every 15 minutes, we never pushed her to the point of tears, we did not want the potty to be associated with crying. Then we moved it to 30 minutes and by the end of the weekend we were putting her on it every hour.
We did not do pull ups as they work like a diaper to pull the moisture away from the skin; we used the cotton training pants. We have also allowed her to see us use the bathroom since she was able to walk and we placed the potty chair in the bathroom a few months prior to starting so she was familiar with it. Find something she likes and use it as an incentive. Dr. Phil recommends using a doll as a potty training method (the dolls that pee). I did not use this as we did not need it. We had accidents, it will happen and you will get frustrated but try not to as she will pick up on it. Don't get angry over accidents. Her bowel movements were pretty regular (between 9-10 in the morning and between 6-7 at night) so every day around those times we would just sit in the bathroom until she went, sometimes that meant 45 minute sessions but I had books and toys in there with her. We did not push her to the point of frustration that is why it helps when she is pretty regular with her bowel movements.
They have videos geared towards helping children understand the sensations, we did not need them but I have heard they helped. My daughter turned two in August and has been completely potty trained, naps and nights, since right around her birthday.
The first day my husband and I were thinking we got in over our head but it got easier and within a week we no longer had to sit her on the potty, she was telling us when she had to go. Just use words you don't mind her yelling at a restaurant :)

Good Luck!

My advice is to not try too hard. Encourage her to use it and when she does make a HUGE deal out of it. When she doesn't, just say oh well and that she can try again later. She'll get it eventually and when she's ready. I know it's nice to not have to do diapers & pull-ups anymore but they really will get it when they can.

let her sit there and play the rest comes later. you might try running the bath water tends to make them want to go or put her hand in warm water also makes them want to go. otherwise just be patient she is young and dont push to hard or you will discourage her. patience mom. at least she is not afraid of the potty chair one step at a time. let her go camo and if she starts take her and put her on the potty. you may scare her the first time but seh will get over it. mine got scared the first time but started using it.

take her every 30 minutes a sticker or tatoo just for sitting and a reward for going a bigger reward. what she is doing both of my boys did at first. its a learning process. and getting her to sit go or not is a huge step.

I'll recommend this potty training method. Worked great for my 2 year old! (and she was very stubborn!). Its totally worth $25 for the ebook.
http://www.3daypottytraining.com/pages/help.htm?official