I have a two and a half year old daughter, and I was wondering if you ladies had any tips on potty training?





I have a two and a half year old daughter, and I was wondering if you ladies had any tips on potty training?
When I was a baby I kept messing up those thick white underpants you typically get for potty training, so my mother bought a bunch of cute, pretty panties with lacy frills and pictures of Strawberry Shortcake, etc. It really worked! I didn't want to mess up my pretty lacy panties, so I tried extra hard with the potty training. Mom says it only took a little over a week before I was fully trained.



Am not a mommy but,
I saw a little boy who loved cars, the parents gave him a little hot wheels car every time he was successful and he was potty trained without too much difficulty and well under the 2 year mark. Talked to someone from outside the US and since there were no diapers in her day the babies would be potty trained around 12 months.
There seems to be plenty of advice from the internet:
http://parenting.ivillage.com/tp/tpp...,,9mnl,00.html
Infants with doting grandparents taking care of them take the longest.
I agree about using rewards but I know some people disagree with the practice.
My sister's daughter had some medical issues early on that made going to the bathroom quite an unhappy experience. When it came time for potty training she was downright scared. We finally got her into it by giving her a small handful of M&M's as a reward when she did it properly. This worked wonders. My sister is a very healthy cook so my neice got candy or junk food on only the very rare occasion so M&M's were like heaven to her.
The reward system turned a bad experience into a good one and my neice was potty trained in no time at all.
For important things like potty training, easing kids into their own beds, etc...I don't think rewards are bad, because they are short term. If you reward your child every single time he/she does something...it becomes expected. If you do it only on the things that you feel are really important, they look at it as a treat instead of as something that is expected or deserved.
I did the panty thing with Makayla, as well. But, my child is such a nudist that the thing that worked the best with her was the freedom to run around naked for a few hours. LOL
I also just put the potty chair in the bathroom (do NOT buy the Royal Potty...it sucks. You'll be cleaning up the floor every time your child uses it) and just let her use it when she wanted. She did the rest.
You can do a reward chart. For every time she makes it to the potty, she gets a sticker for her chart and when she gets 4 stickers (or whatever reasonable number) she gets to pick a treat out of the treat bucket (we used those safety pops and stickers for our daughter). Not only does it teach her how to count, but the more she uses the potty, the more "treats" she gets. As she has fewer accidents and they are far between, you begin increasing the number of stickers to get a treat...after a while, they'll start to forget that they get a treat and just keep putting stickers on their little chart.
My nursing instructor says that today, diapers are so absorbant that they don't feel wet and gross to the kid. She says that they really have to feel it and develop an aversion to it. She said that she let her kid go without a diaper for 2 weeks, and always had the potty nearby. She said that yes, you have to clean up, but it works.





^^^In line with that thinking- My mom used cloth diapers on my brother and me, and she thinks that got us potty-trained faster.
^^^ The sticker system is great, and can also be used in teaching children how to do other things as well, like dress themselves, do chores, tell the truth, practice good table manners, etc. Any time your child uses the potty, put a sticker on her chart, and every 4 stickers or so she gets a treat. This way your child will also see, on her chart, how much progress she has made in potty training. Make sure to praise her every time she chooses to use the potty, and perhaps one of her rewards could be some nice new big girl underwear! If she messes up, don't make a big deal of it, just say matter-of-factly that accidents sometimes happen but perhaps we could try using the potty next time.
I'm smiling at all of these tips as I went thru the same thing with my child not that long ago.
Key thing is... make it fun and make it enjoyable for them, whatever it is that they appreciate the most is attention from their parents in a positive way.
"If A = success, then A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." Albert Einstein
My son is at the potty training stage and I've been trying everything I can think of but he gets so mischevious about it and it ends up being a game where mommy has to chase him around and by that time the damage is done and it is off to do another nappy change.
How should I know when to try and put him on the potty? 20 minutes after meals? Any suggestions from mom's who've been there??
I put him in the "feel and learn" pampers with Spiderman on them and he thinks it is so cool to have Spidey on but it doesn't seem to edge him to the potty![]()
I've taught him sign language since I am able to speak in sign to a degree and showed him the sign for potty so he can tell me when he needs to go...It worked at first for #2 but he's regressed in this.
Any advice for this mom would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
I'm going to try and impliment a few of the tricks you women have given already....
Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved."
Hebrew Talmud




I was SO determined to have Ahrie PT'd before Azaia was born. One week before delivery,she was using the potty on her own!!!
I put panties on her...pretty Dora panties,and used Pull ups only at night. Then asked her every so often if she had to potty. I always brought her in with me when I went,so she would know what to do.The thing that did it I think was I made a HUGE deal out of it. When she peed i basically acted like I won a billion dollars. We called grandma and daddy on the phone and told them. She was so proud. We did this EVERY TIME... and I wasnt acting...I was really happy I didnt have 2 kids in diapers! haha Anyways...make a big deal and it makes em wanna do it again. Good Luck!




Oh and maybe keeping him in pull ups...even the kind that 'encourage' training...makes them think they are still safe to potty on themselves. Try panties... she wont want to soil them...
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