Potty Training - Muskegon,MI

I used stickers as a bribe for my 3 year old. She had decided she didn't want to use the potty after I had my 8 month old and her doctor suggested we take a break and try again in a few months. I waited about a month and then used stickers as an incentive. I also used stickers for my Mothers house when we went there as well so she would go there too. We had two kinds of stickers, one kind was for when she peed and one kind was for poop. The poop ones were more 'special' her favorite characters like carebears, and it worked great! In about a week she was trained, in a month she was trained at night as well, and now she has been accident free for about 5 months... Oh the money we have saved on diapers! 5 and 6 are expensive!

Well find out from the daycare what time does your baby often use the potty and set the same time. Sometime you have to set a time to put her on the potty when she wakes up from a nap or a hour after she drinks and eats. Keep an eye on her sometime they will go to a quiet place and be very quiet that means she have to use the potty but she might be looking for the way she does it at daycare.

Did you ask the daycare what they do?

I like bribes myself. I used to run a daycare. I used stickers or mini mm's just one sticker or three little mm's in trade for a gift you leave in the toilet.

I suggest taking the child to the store for a set of stickers and a special calendar. Each time they sit on the potty they get a sticker. But only when they leave a gift in the potty do they get to stick a sticker on the calendar.

A timer helps too. When the timer goes off (once every two hours) say..it's sticker time and get them to sit on the potty this way. Getting them into a set schedule.

Often showing the calendar to people that visit helps too.

"Oh, Did you see this!" or "Look is she not doing so well!"

And a full day of no naughty diapers (Never tell the child they are naughty) gets a special treat, like you will do clay with them.

I met a mom that would tell the child..oh I have no time to play right now..I have to clean up the diapers..and then say..if you used the potty I would have much more time to do special things. I liked that method because she was a very busy lady..but always carried thru..she would carve out the special time.

I hope this advice helps. I know there are hundreds of ways to get to the same spot but I hope this makes the path straighter:)

If it's the size of the toilet like one person suggested, then try getting her one of those small potty seats that attaches to the toilet. It attaches easily and she'll know it's just for her. Skittles are a good treat also.

i hope things are getting better. My daughter goes to her Dad's half the time. I have pretty much the same advise as everyone else, but I wanted to say this. Consistency is KEY!!! what you do at your house, needs to be done at daycare and also at Dad's. To me it sounded like maybe Dad isn't do what he should to help out with training. If she's going at daycare and your house, then it seems that Dad isn't doing what he should be. It is his responsibility to work with you on what is already working for you and daycare. My daughter's Dad and I were divorced when she went through training and she has the most odd schedule. She is not at one parents house for more than three days in a row. The schedule works out well for all, but it was very important that I, daycare and her Dad were all using the same techniques. She did great at potty training!
Good luck!!

My son turned 4 in September, and I would say just in the last month or so has started to use the bathroom consistently. We were getting pretty worried that he would be the only kid never to potty train. And it wasn't because of lack of trying on our end. It drove me crazy, that as smart as he was, and at his age he knew what he was supposed to do, he just didn't want to. Everytime he would go in his pants, he would simply tell me I could just change his pants. We were getting so frustrated, that when he would go in his pants, that we would take something away, whether it was a toy for a while, or not let him watch TV. I think part of his problem was that he got a new baby sister right before he turned 3, and at their age, big life changes can set them off. Finally, I found an article that really helped. Instead of "taking something away", we reversed it, and told him that when he went potty on the potty, he would be rewarded with being able to watch cartoons. Still the same basic thing we were doing before, just with a positive twist, instead of a negative. Instead of him losing a priviledge for having an accident, he earned his priviledge by being a big boy.

This will sound like a broken record but kids all learn at thier own pace. I have 4 and only one left to potty train thank goodness. Pull-ups are a waste of money, by the time you buy pull-ups and diapers you spend a fortune and they don't speed the process up at all. She goes potty at daycare because other kids are doing it so she does it to. My second to oldest was stubborn about potty training but her daycare class I enrolled her in at 3 was a potty training room and they took the kids to the potty every half hour, she was completely trained in two weeks no accidents. Kids learn by example I was having trouble getting my son to use the potty every time my husband went he took him , pretty soon he got the hint that he wanted to be a big boy like daddy. My advice is because I was a single mom for 7 years before I met my husband is work with the daycare find out how they are getting her to go, and expand on that at home. Take her to the bathroom with you every time you go and you can try the little potty, let her sit on her potty while you sit on the big potty and then clap and say yay when you go and she will hopefully go and clap for her to. Rewarding works for some kids but not all so be careful because what you and the daycare do have to be followed by her dad as well. If everyones on the same page she will transition more easily. It will be harder for her dad to help her but try the little potty at his house to and maybe he can offer rewards like a trip to the park if she stays dry all day. All my kids were different some more stubborn than others my 17 month old i'm sure is going to give me a run for my money. Above all be patient rushing it can cause a severe retraction and can make her not want to do it at all. Feel free to contact me and good luck. ____@____.com.

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Dont use pull ups they suck. Kids just think they still are in diapers. get her some of the panties that are trainers with some plastic panties. Have her go with you to pick out some cool kids underware that she will want to wear so she will keep them dry. With my daughter I told her I wasnt buying any more diapers and had her throw one away and said thats it no more diapers and we havnt looked back since. Shes been trying to potty train since she was 22 mths and she had it down but we tried pull ups and it just wasnt working. We moved to the panties with the plastic and it was the best thing we ever did it finally clicked with her then. She loves having her favorite charactures on her panties. You will want to buy a couple packages of the training panties and rubbers because of accidents and you will be doing lots of washing but it will come. another thing you can do is if you have one or more of the small pottys in the rooms shes in the most. Having one nearby all the time helps them with the feeling they have to go and getting there in time less accidents that way since kids will wait till the last min. We had one in the dining room and living room along with a ring on the regular potty so she always was near one. now when she has to go she goes into the regular potty and the little pottys are put up. You need to get daddy on board he needs to be active in helping while your daughter is at his house. even if he has to remind her every 30 min to go potty even if she doesnt go it will help get her comfortable and willing to go. (dont let daddy cop out because its easier with diapers) just remind him it will be a lot eaiser than changing diapers. I hope this helps you. If you need any more help you can contact me at ____@____.com (by the way my daughter just turned 3 in the beginning of Oct)

This may sound silly, but at the daycare i worked at, and with my son, we put them on the big toilet backwards, like they are riding a hourse, it worked almost every time...Its worth a try..

Try M&M's as a reward if she goes. The toliets at the daycare are kid sized and less scary and easier to use. She may just need an incentive at home.

put her in panties and not pullups. (pullups are just a glorified diaper if you ask me) the old fashioned running around the house in a thin pair of panties works the best. my daughter hated that feeling of wetness or messiness and after a week or two; she was done with that and as much as she HATED to stop playing and actually go potty on the toilet she went none-the-less!! good luck. oh yea; another thing is the day care schedules potty times usually ever hour on the hour where most children are asked to "try". do that to if you're not and m&m's are a good treat too!!

My son did the EXACT same thing. He'd go all day long at daycare (where he goes 2 days a week), but would never go at home or at grandmas (where he goes 3 days a week). But we really buckled down and my mom and I started putting him on it every 30-60 minutes, and after about 5 days, he went at home. We made a HUGE deal of it, and we haven't had too much problem after that. It's like he was sitting there and realized what he was supposed to be doing, it finally clicked. He's still not fully potty trained at 38 months, but he's getting there. Right now we're dealing with him going in his pants on purpose...that's a whole other ball of wax!

So anyway, sorry I can't really give you any advice except to be patient. Maybe try putting her on it more often, and when she goes make a huge deal, call her a big girl, blah blah blah. Eventually it will click.