Potty Training - Spring Hill, TN

ok look she is young leave the chair there! Do not stop she very well may want to go so take her with you when you go. If mommy is doing it, it must be cool. she seems to be very smart as soon as my child started showing intrest i took her with me and in a week or two she said i need to pee pee mom. put big girl panties on her and tell her she is big and she has to put the potty in the toilet. The funner it seems to be the more the child enjoys doing it. girls are easy to train.

My daughter has shown on & off interest in the potty too. She's 25 months old now, and still not potty trained! At first, she showed interest at home, and not at daycare. Now it seems like the opposite. She used to be interested in wearing "big girl panties" before, and now she chooses the diapers (pull-ups) instead. I think it's because of the characters on the diapers! But I discovered this weekend that if she thinks there are no more diapers, she will wear the panties. (We had run out of diapers in her cabinet in her bathroom, so she thought they were all gone). So I am going to try to hide them when we are home & make her wear panties more often. She does get upset when she wets the panties, but every time I ask her if she's got to go potty, she says no. I'm going to try to stick with her wearing panties most of the time to see if it finally clicks!

Oh, and when she does tell me she has to go potty, it's usually because she's already gone in her diaper, and she will go to the bathroom and change her own diaper HERSELF (I let her if it's not dirty), and refuses to sit on the potty.

One day they will get it.... one day...!!!

i would just wait a while

I have a 2 year old boy but I have also worked in the 2 year old room at a daycare. Potty training is NOT fun, especially if the child is not interested. I agree that pull-ups are really a waste. We used them but I do not know why. They feel like a diaper and a child really does not know the difference. At the daycare, we asked the parents to only bring in underwear while the child is potty training. Like other moms have said, feeling wet down your leg is no fun. And she will soon realize that.
At the same time, I would not push her. She is still young (as are most 2 year olds) and may not really be ready yet. I would let her follow you and watch you and just leave her Dora chair in there. If she wants to sit while you sit, let her- even if her clothes are still on. At least it'd be a start!! Good luck!!!

I have 5 children and never started potty training until after they were 2 otherwise you are fighting a losing battle. Sure it would be nice to be finished with buying and changing diapers, but pull-ups are more expensive and work just like a diaper. I found it was best to wait until they were after 2, interest does not always mean ready. I would suggest waiting until the summer(less cloths to remove) before they turn 3 and try consistently. Buy some character panties that she picks out and try the reward system again. All my children were totally potty trained between the ages of 2-3 within 2 weeks after I started consistently taking them to the toilet. Good luck.

Advice from me. STOP COMPLETELY, don't ask her if she's wet, don't ask if she's dirty, don't ask if she needs to go, don't ask if she wants to go. Just don't. My daughter was almost 4 when she was completely potty trained. I had a strong-willed child who was simply not going to do it if YOU wanted her to. When the diapers ran out, I put her in panties and if she didn't go to the potty when I asked, she had pee down her leg. A few days of pee down her leg and she quickly realized she didn't like it and started asking if she could go on her own. The more you try to even subtley get her to go, the more she'll fight you on it.

M. and Amara (8/25/01)