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potty dilema

Sashae - posted on 10/22/2009 ( 5 moms have responded )

i am a mother of seven. my two year old wears pull-ups during the day and a diaper at night. this seems fine, right? i still have the problem of her telling me when she has to go. i remind her to go and she does. when i forget, sometimes she goes on her on, but it is not consistent. i feel like this is never going to end. she will be three years old in january, so i feel that we should be at least to the point of her feeling the urge to go and expressing it. i know children ngo at there own pace, but like i stateed before...i am a mother of seven and all of my children was pottying by at least two and a half. I am not pressuring her, what should i try? please help!!!!!!!!!!!

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Danielle - posted on 10/28/2009

we started to make it part of his routine, first thing in the morning, just after snack, after lunch. ect but i think the biggest thing was watching and noticing the dances, holding himself that he did was a sure sign that he had to go and we didnt ask him we told him to go, he got mad at us at first and we had to fight to get him on the potty but after he went pee and he saw how happy we got (and the fact that he got a sticker) he stopped fighting us and just went when he needed to now we dont have to tell him he tells us...

hope it helps!! and good luck it took us 3 months to potty train

Jamie - posted on 10/27/2009

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just started potty training my son who is now 33 months old. I tried at 22 months old and he just wasn't ready. The doctor told me not to rush it if he wasn't ready. But I tell you I am glad that I didn't Cause I started Potty training exactly two weeks ago with bribes. And I never did the potty training pants. I went straight to underwear. Which was a big help. I bought underwear with characters on them and tell him that he didn't want to make diego or spongebob wet cause it would make them sad. and would always have the potty in close area for him. I would always ask every half hour " need to pee" and he would answer me. and Just two days ago he took the initative to start just going straight to the potty himself and pulling down his own pants. yay for me. I have a 6 month old and hate the double diaper duty. Pooping was the harder to get done. But has now been doing both on potty for 3 weeks straight faithfully. GOOD LUCK it takes a lot of time. and sometimes they maybe not ready and if you wait till there ready you may be saving your self the hassel and complacations. once their ready they take off

Gemma - posted on 10/26/2009

i picked a period when we could both do it without too much disruption and didn't use any pull ups or nappies in days and explained why she still should use them at night, and left her nickerless and no pants whenever possible and just took a travel potty with me for when we were out and about i found that still using nappies in the day confused her and set us back a while my nursery, was very supportive and went by my rules, while under there care it was hard work and lots of cleaning up! and made sure i had a few pottys scattered round the house and she soon clicked just make sure ya have lots of clothes and disinfectant hope this helps good luck xxx

Sashae - posted on 10/23/2009

Thanks. I am going to try panties and maybe she will feel more like a big girl.

Brandi - posted on 10/22/2009

My daughter has been fully pottie trained for about 2 weeks now. Before then I was in the same situation. I finally just bought panties and she wore them anytime we were just around the house or at daycare. She hated the feeling of peeing in her panties but could care less about peeing in her pull-up. After several accidents she started going more often in the pottie and now I don't even have to remind her. She even goes out to the stores and everywhere in her panties. Good luck.