Potty Training - Sunland,CA

Don't ask her, their answer will always be "no". Just make sitting on the potty a routine. Have her come in the bathroom with you each time. Set a schedule just like they do at daycares - morning, before/after meals & snacks, before bath, before bed. Have her use her potty to sit on while you run the water in the bathtub or the sink (my mom's trick and it works!), talk with her about what a great thing it is to be a "big girl", read books about it (yes, 3 year-olds can understand books written on this subject just for them), make sitting on the potty fun whether she goes or not (book or toy to hold). Give her lots of water and juice to drink so she can't hold it.

I never used rewards (other than a "good job!") but some kids may respond to them. I didn't wait for her to "be ready", I brought out the potty at 14 months and started the process really gradually until she was completely trained at 26 months (no accidents). Three year olds are past ready. Start again and this time, no going back.

Does she have an infection? I would take her to the Dr.

I dislike how the ladies on here always tell moms to wait because their children "aren't ready". Only in America is such a nonsense belief so prevalent.

I would not wait. If she's just holding it out of fear then you need to sit her down and explain how great using the potty is. Read her books on the subject. Take her out diaperless and have fun.

Allowing her to stay in a diaper or a pull up at this point will only prolong potty training. She's in the habit of just peeing whenever and wherever without any thought to the process. So now you have to help her think about it and break the diaper habit.

Suz: Research it. The "wait til they're ready" approach was made up by the diaper industry. It's in fact only a commercial ploy to make more money. Children are little intelligent sponges. Yes they indeed can learn all sorts of things. And books are a wonderful resource.

Try again in a couple weeks. She's not ready.

Did you do anything to get her ready?

We spent weeks preparing to ditch the diapers.
We read books about using the potty
We watched a video (Potty Power)
We played an online Elmo game about using the potty
We talked about it
I told them when I was going so that they would understand that this is an normal part of the day

Then, when I thought they were ready, I made sitting on the potty fun.
For one of my kids, who LOVES book, I would read to him when he sat on the potty.
For my other kid, who LOVES video games, I put the little potty in the room with the Wii, and he got to play Wii while he sat on the potty.
If they actually went potty while sitting there, they got an M&M as a prize.

I don't know how you prepared your daughter, or where you put the little potty, but I think that after you take a little break, you need to approach this in a different way than you did before.

Back off about it. She's not ready. Put a little potty in the bathroom, or get the cover that makes the regular potty have a "kid size bottom" hole. Have her come to the bathroom when you do. Model the behavior but don't push it. When she's ready, it'll happen.

If she shows any interest, reward that with happy recognition. Don't be upset about her not being ready yet. Every kid is different. My son wasn't trained till after he was 3 - maybe not quite 3-1/2.

She's not ready. Try again in a month to check for readiness. If not, wait another month. Repeat until she shows readiness.

leave her alone. she's not ready.
ETA a 'nonsense' belief is thinking that you can read a book to a 3 year old and then they'll get it. i can't think of any of my non-american friends (and i have quite a few) who have toddlers and think that all it takes to make them understand a big concept is to sit them down and explain it to them.
sensible parenting concepts are pretty global.
khairete
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Download the potty time app. Also back off a little. Make it fun.

If she sits on the potty chair and even tries congratulate her on a good try then give her a M&M or jelly bean or some tiny thing as a reward for trying.

Once she gets the idea trying is fun she'll actually go. Then you give her 2 M&M's or jelly beans....she will go more and you'll have a girl who's more willing to actually sit on the potty.

Go to pull ups. They are made so kiddo can push them down and pull them up. This helps her get the idea.

I know it sounds strange, but when I was potty training we lived in a house where the bathroom was upstairs. So my kids rarely made it on time. So what I did was made a little potty chair available in my livingroom. I didn't push it at first. I let them explore it sit on it with pants on etc. I also had one in my bathroom so that when I went they could try to go too. After a while they started on their own going. Once they got good with it I took the potty chair downstairs away. But all kids do it when they are ready. I wouldn't push it because then she will have anxiety about it. Good luck! Also when she does use the potty make a really big deal about it! Clap sing dance etc. It will make her want to do it more!