[ml2waiting]

Need advice from those who made gotten through this stage... Not sure if DD is ready or just playing....??

My DD is 22 months... we gave her a potty chair and we talk about the potty and how to use it and all... just trying to have her interested but not forcing her to use it or anything...

She seems to like the potty chair, she will be dry for a long period then say "pee pee" and run to the chair and take pants and diaper off, then sit and read books (sometimes for a 1/2 hr. or more)... BUT she has been doing this for weeks now and never actually peed in the potty. (Usually doesn't pee till an hour or more later.)

She also HATES getting her diaper changed. Will not tell me if she goes in the diaper....

Don't know if I should move onto the cloth training pants which she asks to wear (don't really want to use Pull-Ups), or just let her go "as is" till she really uses the potty?

[mondk]

I read an article somewhere that said you could potty train a "ready" child in 3 days. Maybe it was babycenter.com? It said to let them go pants-free for 3 days I can't remember the rest. Maybe google it? I'm almost positive it was babycenter.com though. It sounded far-fetched at first, then some of it made sense.

Joshie is almost 21 mos. We bought him an Elmo potty and he loves to sit on it and push the button to make Elmo talk...but he definitely isn't ready. He hasn't associated going with his body and won't sit still longer than 5 seconds.

My babysitter's son is a month older than Joshie and she had him sitting on a potty at a year old, but even now that she makes him sit on it every 2 hours during the day, he has only actually gone 3 times in it.

My older son trained himself at age 3. He got up one morning, threw his diaper across the room and wanted big boy pants. He was trained from then on.

Good luck!

Blessings, Michelle

[startedover]

you can also google dr phill and potty training. he has that one to three day method. We used it and were someonewhat successful but on day 4 at preschool they "didn't have time" to work with her. So I am waiting till I know I have a week or so that I can dedicate to it to start again. But here is what we did.
We talked about a potty party all week. Bought ballons and whistles. Got a baby that potties. Gave her water that we colored with food coloring so dd could see in her diaper that she had went. Then the next time I feed her the colored water and put her on the potty. whenthe doll "peed" we blew whistles and danced and everything and put panties on the doll. My son hung ballons all over the bathroom and put books by the potty and all. then we gave my daughter alot of liquid and put her on the potty every 20 mintues. when she went we danced and she got to pick a ballon off the wall and get a skittle for every "piddle". it worked really well. Then when she had an accident, we simply told her it was ok and then took her to the potty ten times in a row (muscle memory) I would tell her we were practicing andthen we would go to each room and yell I gotta go and run, pulldown her panties sit and get up. I believe it really works, I just don't know if she was ready, she doesn't mind wet panties and she is wet after naps still and so on. SO I backed of and now just let her tell us when she wants to which is about ten percent of the time (or if she saw the skittles and wants one) lol good luck

[feelingreyt]

My dd started showing an interest in the potty around 22 months, something like that anyway. However, it seemed like the potty was training us. Training us to take her potty every 20-30 minutes. How exhausting!
After my dd was actually ready to potty train it was a piece of cake. SHE told me when she needed to potty. It didn't take long at allto train her. She was almost 3 when she was trained. She RARELY had accidents and stayed dry throughout the night.

My son showed very little interest in potty training. He was almost 3 yrs old when he decided to use the potty versus just sitting on it! I didn't make a big fuss over it because I knew he would potty train in HIS time, not mine. Not long before his 3rd b-day he was sick and we had to stay home for about a week without going anywhere. That was all he needed. He is 4 now and RARELY has accidents and never wets the bed.

I wonder how my almost 20 month old ds will do. I do know that I will not push him. If he sits on the potty great, but the potty will not "train" us to watch the clock, LOL!

Just be aware of your dd's feelings. She will let you know when she is truly ready. And sitting on the potty is a great thing. Alot of kids are scared of the potty!

[HappyTwinsMom]

I'll start off by saying that most people don't agree with the way we handled it. But that's okay - I'm used to being weird (in fact, my daughter just told me this morning that I'm weird).

When our girls were about 18 months old, we bought potty chairs for them and set them up in the bathroom. Made them completely available and let them take the lead on what they wanted to do. Sometimes they tried them, sometimes not.

We tried pull-ups for a few weeks when they turned three, but they simply were not ready to be trained.

When we were getting ready for a driving trip to Disneyland for Christmas when they were 3 1/2, both girls told me they wanted to wear "big girl panties" (which they'd had in their dressers for a few months). I explained that they had to always go potty in the toilet and that we wouldn't have diapers or pull-ups anymore. They both said they were ready.

And neither of them has had an accident since then. They were dry night and day from that day on.

I remember talking to the pediatrician about it just before they turned three. I said I didn't want to push them and that I believed you should follow the child's lead to avoid "issues," but I was concerned that they should have been trained by that point. She said "they will not go to school in diapers and if you let them direct the process, they won't have problems with it." It made me feel so much better to have a "professional" agree with me.

Good luck with whatever you decide to try.

[minibus]

Our DD has showed interest in the potty for several months now (she's now 2 yrs, 5 months). She'll go (sometimes) if we sit her on the potty, she'll occasionally ask to go (and then sometimes go and sometimes not). We're not pushing her at all because she doesn't know her body yet - she can't even tell us accurately if she has poop in her diaper or not. We have a younger one in diapers as well, so it's really not an issue for us. And transitioning her to the potty every hour would be a nightmare for us ... she does NOT transition well. So for now, we're letting her direct it and not worrying about it.

I would encourage you to let your DD sit on the potty if she's interested (at least she's not scared of it, which is a great thing!). But maybe not push it yet - maybe she just thinks it's fun and different place to sit, but doesn't yet realize what exactly you're supposed to do there. Just my opinion.

[mandirenee]

DS was trained at 28 months old, probably could have been sooner, but with a newborn we waited a few extra months.

We did Potty Boot Camp. It's an Ebook. You can google it. It combines a few methods. You need 3-5 days of solid potty training. Our son was using the potty very quickly.

I was having him wear pull ups at naptime and outings and quickly learned that was causing him to be lazy. So we went to underwear all the time (except for bed). He's gone 2 months witout an accident.

So my advice....take a few days go naked and concentrate on going potty. Then after 2-4 days go to underwear 100% (except bedtime). I think the trick to potty bootcamp is the clean up procedure, this teaches the child the consequences of an accident.

Good Luck.

[blessedbybug]

Originally Posted by ml2waiting

Need advice from those who made gotten through this stage... Not sure if DD is ready or just playing....??

My DD is 22 months... we gave her a potty chair and we talk about the potty and how to use it and all... just trying to have her interested but not forcing her to use it or anything...

She seems to like the potty chair, she will be dry for a long period then say "pee pee" and run to the chair and take pants and diaper off, then sit and read books (sometimes for a 1/2 hr. or more)... BUT she has been doing this for weeks now and never actually peed in the potty. (Usually doesn't pee till an hour or more later.)

She also HATES getting her diaper changed. Will not tell me if she goes in the diaper....

Don't know if I should move onto the cloth training pants which she asks to wear (don't really want to use Pull-Ups), or just let her go "as is" till she really uses the potty?

Both my kids basically trained themselves after they turned 2 1/2 . I was adamant that they understand the connection between peeing in the potty and wearing underwear. They liked the idea of unders but didn't want to sit on the potty. There were many times I was wrestling DS (DD was easy!) back into a diaper because he wouldn't go on the potty thinking "lots of people would love to have a child who wanted to wear unders"! But it worked. He decided he wanted to pee on the potty and the first time he did we celebrated and he got unders. And has few accidents since (and no poo accidents). And it worked for DD too.

One thing I wouldn't do is reward them with candy or other treats. I didn't want a normal thing of life to be associated with getting a reward if you do it. I also didn't let them sit on the potty for long periods of time playing or reading. They went to the potty in the bathroom for no other reason but to go to the potty. It worked for them.

Will it work for your child? I don't know. But that is how it worked for both my kids. HTH!

[ml2waiting]

Thanks for all the replies...

I'm thinking at this point I'll let her just keep doing what she does... trying the potty chair when she wants and all... (stay in diapers till she gets the timing down with the way her body feels and when she can really pee on the potty)

She is interested in wearing underwear, so I think I might hold on to them as a "reward" item.... instead of letting her wear them before she really has a chance of staying dry in them.