Tonya - posted on 01/26/2009 ( 5 moms have responded )
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My 2 1/2 year old girl started potty training late and she will only go pee pee in the potty chair not poopy, she begs for her diaper to go #2.....Give her praises and everything and she loves high fives.. She has no problems with her system but has a one track mind it seems like.. What should I do to get her away from thinking that she needs a diaper??
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Tonya - posted on 01/27/2009
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Thanks for saying she's not to late to train! Some people I know have their kids trained before two years old...Have not tried an award system with her but could try and see how it goes. Her diapers have been dry now during naps a few days in a row but not at night. She LOVES to wear dresses even in the winter so I put a dress on her in the morning and she sometimes takes her undies or pullup off all together and I think she is afraid she is going to WET in them. The dress seems long enough but want her to get used to underwear. She has gone on the floor and feels really bad about it..Remind her that the diapers are for her younger brother now frequently. Still has gone only #2 once in the potty but will keep trying these techniques!
Charissa - posted on 01/27/2009
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First of all, 2 1/2 years is not late....My son potty trained around that age so don't fret.
Have you tried a potty chart? My son is a very visual child and when he started training, we created a chart (10 squares) and every time he went #1 he got 1 sticker, and when he went #2 he got 2 stickers...when he filled an entire chart - he got to go to the dollarama or we had a stash of toys that he can pick from. Within 1 month, he was fully potty trained.
Also, have you tried not putting her in a diaper at all? Maybe the feeling of an accident in her pants will do the trick.
Shana - posted on 01/27/2009
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that is what my daughter did and i finely had to tell her that we had no more diapers. ( of course i had a few on hand. ) but some times they just know that is where they poop and they don't like change. I still am going through it some and she is 3 now. but it finely just kicked in and thank the good Lord for that. good luck
Whitney - posted on 01/26/2009
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I agree. I'm not in agreement with the uber-potty-trainers that force potty training at one years old and stuff. I tried potty training daughter at about 20 months and it didn't really take until she was almost three. I'm very laid back about it. We definitely had a reward system (one M&M for pee-pee and 3 M&Ms for poop). But it has to be consistent. Take her to the potty when she needs to, and give praise when she goes in the potty. She'll get it eventually. Even right now at almost four, my daughter is an on again/off again nap trained. But I'm not too hard on her about because bed-wetting until like 8-10 years old runs in my family.
Meredith - posted on 01/26/2009
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2 1/2 is not late. When she's ready, she'll go in the potty.
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