Potty Training - Going on the Floor

A.,

Make her part of the clean-up process - when she realizes all the steps it takes to clean up maybe she'll understand that going in the potty is just easier.

Hope this helps!
Mel

MAYBE SHE IS NOT READY TO BE POTTY TRAINED YET. I TRIED WITH MY SON AT 2 1/2 AND HE WANTED NO PART OF IT. I WAITED 6 MONTHS AND AS SOON AS HE TURNED 3 I TRIED AGAIN AND POTTY TRAINED HIM IN 1 DAY. NOW WITH THE POOPING ON THE FLOOR I WOULD PUT A PULL UP ON HER FOR NAPS AND NIGHT TIME AND BUY SOME OF THOSE FOOTED PAJAMAS WITH THE ZIPPERS, CUT THE FEET OFF AND PUT THEM ON HER BACKWARDS THEN SHE CAN'T GET THEM OFF. AND YAH SHE MIGHT STILL NOT GO ON THE POTTY BUT AT LEAST IT WON'T BE ON THE FLOOR. I WOULD JUST GIVE IT TIME, SHE'S PROBABLY JUST NOT READY. GOOD LUCK!

And I thought I had a hard time with the pooping with my son! Kid's do the weirdest things. My son was almost 3 when I started. I had the hardest time getting him to poop in the potty. But then I got a calendar and bought some stickers and everytime he even tried...he got a sticker. It worked so well that now that he's four...I do it with his chored and for every sticker he gets a quarter! Try that and see what it does...hope it works for you! Good luck!

When I was a nanny, we had this problem with one of the girls. I can't tell you how much Spot Shot we went through! I actually got to the point where I was so frustrated that I put duct tape over the tabs on her diapers at nap time. :o) (The situation was a slight bit different, though, because she would do it in her pants and then take them off after the fact.)

Have you tried putting her potty in her room? Maybe your daughter would like the privacy and familiarity of her room instead.

I would tell you that our oldest learned it best when we relaxed about it, backed off and let her go at her own pace (she had it down by around her third birthday), but I understand that the whole messing the carpet thing is a whole different ball of wax. Good luck! I'm sure you'll get lots of great ideas here!

L.

I am now potty training my 2 year old son. But dont give up it is very hard. I have been taking him to the bathroom every 2 hours. He is not telling us when he has to go. I have a 6 year old daughter and thats what we did to her. I hope this works.

My daughter didn't seem the slightest bit concerned if she peed in her underwear or her pullup. We tried to get her excited about the princesses on the pullups saying things like "don't pee pee on the princesses." and we let her pick out whatever underwear she wanted that way she wouldn't want to ruin them hopefully. It took a little bit of time, but that worked. She also never got into bed whether it be nap time or bed time without us sitting her on the potty first. Even if she didn't do anything we figured it was better to start the habit at the very least. I don't know if your daughter will pee on a kiddy potty yet or not, but if so, we moved her kiddy potty into her room so that if she had to go and didn't want to "pee pee on her princesses" she could go whenever she wanted. Some people might think this is gross, but we put the kiddy potty next to her bed. I didn't get her up during her nap to let her use the potty, but at night I would go and wake her up before I went to bed and put her on the potty. It was more to show her she could get out of bed and pee or poop on it in her room even if I wasn't there. I did that for several weeks to a couple of months (I don't remember quite how long) and she finally decided that it was cool to go pee pee in her special potty. We made her use the regular potty in the rest of the house with a special little seat and stool for her. Also whenever she pooped in the potty we gave her 2 or 3 M & M's. She only got the candy if she pooped in the potty, nothing else or you wind up feeding them candy all day! Once Easter came we started to hide little treats in plastic eggs that she got to choose from when she went poopy on the potty. It became a fun surprise and when she was going poopy on the potty she would start talking about the Easter eggs and the surprise she was going to get if she went poopy. This worked really well for my daughter. Hope it does for you as well. Good luck!!!

I have a funny story for you. My daughter was doing great with potty training and going and sitting on her potty when shehad to go. Well, she decided that she no longer wanted to do that and she went outside and pooped on our back patio, covered it with her diaper and came back into the house. Two days later she pooped on the stoop by our back door. I asked her why she was doing this and her response was because our dog goes potty outside.

She is going to be three in Feb. and she still wears a pull up. She hates sitting in her pee or pooh but she refuses to usethe potty. Any potty!

I say be patient and time will take it's course.

Hi!
Have you tried sitting her on the toilet right before bed/nap time and encouraging her to go then? Kinda like making a kid go potty before getting in the car.
I'm going through potty-training right now with my 2 1/2 yr old too, and really I'm just starting to think she's not ready. With both of my older daughters, I pretty much let them decide when, NO pressure. While they both weren't trained until just after their 3rd birthdays, there were no accidents, no bed wetting, no floor cleanings. :) We started my youngest a little early at our daycare's request, but sometimes stepping back and just changing diapers for a few more months can make all the difference.
Good luck! Sometimes it seems like potty training will never end, but they all make it there eventually...

I'm not sure how to help with the potty trainig yet, as I'm in the same boat with my 2.5 year old, but I just wanted to comment on someone suggestion of waking their child up from sleeping to use the potty before she went to bed. I would advise against this, for personal reasons. My parents used to wake me up to go, and I ended up wetting the bed for quite some time because I would dream that my parents were taking me to the bathroom.

Let me know if you find something that works though. So far she will poop on the potty, but it's just a matter of getting her to tell me before she goes.

Pooping is a very hard thing for kids to get down. It took my son 2 months longer to get the pooping down after he was not having ANY accidents peeing. He didn't get either down until he was 3 but I hear boys take longer than girls. Be grateful...she is at least going. Many times they hold their poop in which causes more health problems than the carpet (although I'm sure that on it's own is extremely frusterating.) What helped my son was to take all the poopy and put it in the potty...When we changed his diaper I would dump the poop in the potty and discuss how yucky it was if it wasn't in the potty and the same if it was on the floor. Even if it's just a little bit, just so they realize that poop belongs in the potty not anywhere else. Just an idea :)

With a little experience from a nanny job, I'd say that when she is ready to use the potty she will use the potty! I have a 2 year old son who occasionally sits on the potty and has peed on the potty once. My husband insists on telling him he's a big boy and needs to use the potty. Which obviously isn't working. I on the other hand, let him sit on the potty when he wants to and don't push him.

When I watched the two little kids a few years back, the little girl regressed after using the potty for about 6 months (no night time accidents either). Her parents got her older brother potty trained and pretty much forced her to go potty too. SHe all of a sudden would dirty her underpants or go pee in a corner. So I've learned the hard way....don't push it, no matter how frustrating it is!

As for going on the carpet.......hmmm! Maybe leave her bedroom door open so you can keep an eye on her. Or put her down fora nap on a portable nap mat so you can keep her near you and keep an eye on her. After she has gone potty, then you could put her in bed? I know it kind of defeats the purpose of having your toddler sleep in their own bed (another issue we are struggling with), but if it keeps your floors clean. It may be worth a shot! Good luck.