Trouble with Potty Training - Marysville,OH

Setbacks happen. If these "accidents" keep happening around the same time every evening, then it should be an easy fix. Start putting her on the potty every half hour during that time frame. Then she shouldn't have any "accidents". What is she doing during that time frame? Sometimes kids get so wrapped up in playing that they don't want to pull themselves away to potty. If she's not having any "accidents" during the day I don't see where it should be something for you to worry about concerning preschool. Good luck and I hope this helps.

I wouldn't worry about pre-school. I was concerned with my oldest because he was trained so close to the start of the school year. The teachers expect accidents to happen and they also said, accidents happen less and less as the school year goes on.

She's a normal 3 year old who doesn't want to take the time to go potty. My 5 year old went through this big time.

New rule: Any time she wants to do something different, potty first. If she's been coloring and wants a snack, potty first. If she wants to watch a movie or read a book, or even go outside to play; potty first.

We also started not buying the bigger sized pull-ups and purposefully let her "outgrow" whatever size of pull-ups she was in. Then she started saying they were uncomfortable and wanted to wear big girl pants. We told her that was fine, but if she wanted to wear big girl pants then she had to use the big girl potty like she knew how, even if she woke up in the night. She said, "I use YOUR potty!" We told her we didn't care as long as she was using the potty.

We also would make mental notes of when she last went potty. If 20-30 minutes went by and she hadn't gone potty, then we'd tell her, "Okay...I need for you to go potty." She'd fuss sometimes, but we'd tell her - before you do anything else, potty first, and that if she would quit having accidents, then we wouldn't have to remind her.

Occasionally, we'd have to set the timer every 25 minutes. When it would go off, she'd say, "I know....time to go potty...."

For what it's worth - and good luck!

If the reward system for using the toilet isn't working then you might revert to the punishment system. "You are a big girl now and big girls use the potty" and then start taking away big girl things because she is acting like a baby. Every time she wets her pants instead of using the potty she loses a big girl toy. She isn't allowed to do big girl things like pick out TV shows or movies she likes or books for you to read to her, etc.

Chances are she just doesn't care, it's not fun When there is something in it for her it sounds like she does fine. So it's reasonable to think once school starts she'll do fine there. As for the accidents, if it's the same time every day just put her on the potty at that time, or even every 10 minutes for that hour. Playing is much more fun that potty time and she'll soon realize that if she just goes it's a lot faster than you taking her in there every few minutes.