potty training issues

Is she your first baby? Then instead of Potty Training, you could train her in the real toilet itself. Take her to the toilet, and give her the feel of the room, talk to her that you and her father use this when you had to. As she is now becoming a big girl, she should also use it. Also when at home, take her to toilet every hour. Dont ask her, but just take her. In the middle, if she does wet her pant, dont look at her annoyed or dont shout, just tell her that next time call mama, I will take you to the toilet after removing her pants. I think, by now she should be able to remove and put on her pants.

If you still feel that she is too young to be trained in the real toilet, then tell her to remove her pants atleast whenever she has the urge. Slowly she will get trained. But you have to be very very patient.

I have no advice for potty training. I've never done it myself. Nature dictates that they'll go when read. Many studies have shown that "training" doesn't quicken the process so why go through the stress or hassle?

Also I didn't use disposable products. They seem, to me, to be a deterrent to the goal. If they don't FEEL wet and uncomfortable, where is the correlation or motivation to go elsewhere? I always used cloth diapers and old-fashioned training pants. They'll "get it" in their own time.

My first was using the potty by 15mos; the 2nd at 3 1/2 years; the 3rd at 24mos, the 4th was 2 years but then the daycare used pullups and she quit using the potty. When I brought her out of daycare and back into training pants, she started using potty again. The 5th child was 3 years.

I've never potty trained and yet I don't have any 20-somethings wetting their pants.

Well, I used the rewards program. I also have all boys so I don't know how much of a difference it makes. All kids are different and they do things differently. I took away all treats from my sons and put out a jar of m&m's near their potty chair. I also moved the chair somewhere where they had easy access to it like in the hall or living room. I also let them run around without anything on (close the windows if you got them) and had them sit on the seat every 15 min with a glass of water or juice. i would sit and talk to them about using the potty to get them to stay there longer, maybe read a potty book or something.

the process takes a long time. and you have to watch them if you let them run around without anything. because once you see something is about to happen, run them over to the seat (hence the easy access area). Then they can associate the feeling of going to going in the potty seat (hopefully).

Then when it happens throw a PARTY! Make a big deal of it. The candy incentives help for a while. To ween them off of it, when they're doing it on a regular basis don't give it to them if they don't ask. replace with lots of hugs and kisses, they love that.

NEVER tell them bad things or get upset when they have accidents.
AND a lot of CARPET CLEANER! lol.

I am having problems potty training my 23 month old baby... she loves sitting on the potty trainer... and treats it like a car... but doesn't sit there long enough to pee... the only progress we made after weeks is that... she tells us the she is having or about to poo... but cries when we try to remove her diapers... but at least that is a starts... i just hope she leans how to use the bathroom so that we can save from buying diapers...

My experience is not going to help...because I started potty training way too early.
I put them on the potty seat when they were ready to sit unsupported. My older son (who is 7 now) was fully potty trained by 1.5 years of age.
My younger one who is now 16 months is halfway there. He woud refuse to sit on the potty seat (we have one that attaches to the big toilet) and I just kept at it for a week and now he does sit. At first, I would watch for him when he needed to use the toilet and run with him to the toilet. He soon got the idea of what the potty was for. Now, he sits and even tries to go potty. But since he's not ready to really speak yet, he's unable to let us know when he needs to go...but I can see him looking at the bathroom door when he needs to go. He still needs to get control of his bladder though...and though he was peeing when I took him to the toilet at 12-13 months...he stopped when I couldn't take him to the toilet often when I was busy. Now, he doesn't pee when I take him to the toilet. So, I've got to start training on that all over again.

My first born prefered using the real toilet bowl instead of the potty trainer. We used pull ups for a month before she got trained. I think at 24 months, she was no longer using nappies.
I patietly waited with her in the toilet until she finally peed at night while we were training her. There was a time when she would say poo or pee after doing it so we tell her to tell us when she feels that its coming already and not wait till she's done.

I also tried different techniques on potty training my daughter since she turned one year old and nothing seemed to work, inspite of all the efforts, until last March last year, when she was a year and 9 months old, she voluntarily sat on her potty and the rest is history. When she was two and a half she started using our common toilet bowl. She is turning three this July. Another one more good thing, she is now not wearing diapers at night, she wakes up to pee even on early mornings, she also initiated this, that was two Sundays ago when she refused to wear her diaper.

So you must be patient... your girl will do her stuff in her own time..

The first thing to remember is the child's muscles have to be ready for the potty training issue. If they aren't ready then you just will keep working with the child and have no results. What I mean by the child's muscles is that does your child have the urge to go. Your child may not realize this but there are signs to see if this is happening. If she holds herself is one of the signs. If she starts to run to you and saying that she has to go. These are indications that those muscles are developed enough to start the potty training. I didn't push the issue with my son. He potty trained himself pretty much. My son's three kids did the same. I wouldn't worry about it or make a big issue about it. Your child will become potty trained when the time is right. I worked in a child care center and this is how we explained it to our parents.

When I was trying to potty train my first child, everyone told me to wait until she is two years old. They were right. Apparantly many children are more ready to train at the age of two. Your daughter is almost there. Give her a few more months and she may come by it more naturally. In retrospect, I wish I had listened to what everyone told me and not stressed over the potty training as much as I did. Good luck.

My daughter started to use the toilet at about 18 months, but wasn't patty trained until she was 2. I just kept asking her if she wanted to use the potty, and we'd go sit for a few minutes. Eventually she figured it all out. We tried stickers, and prizes, but they didn't work very well. I still put diapers or pull ups on her when we went out, and at night for a while after she was potty trained because she didn't talk very well. As soon as she could tell me she had to go, and I was fairly confident that she wouldn't wet the bed every night we stopped those. My son who just turned 2 is still at the stage of peeing on the toilet a couple times a week, but he doesn't completely empty his bladder yet, so he's off and on a couple times, then usually still pees in the diaper too. But, I know it isn't too far off for him. I haven't found any tricks. Give her the opportunity, encourage her to try and one day for no apparent reason the light bulb will just click on.