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varga

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01/31/2008 8:17 AM	Alert
Does anyone have advice as I start potty training my Daughter?

seri

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01/31/2008 8:33 AM	Alert
I started putting a potty out and when I went and asked her if she needed to go, then when we went to the store( knowing it wouldnt be very long) I took off her diaper and told her to tell me if she had to poty and if she could hold it until we got back in the car... If she did she got a sticker which went on her chart at home. It so super easy for me.. Not the best method but it worked.. I even took off her diaper at nite and so far no accidents. Its been a good 8 months.. Good luck

JonAndAshly User is Offline

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01/31/2008 1:19 PM	Alert
My daughter is two and a half and is still not interested. I was always told girls where the easy ones!! She is fully content to sit in her own poop. My husband took over with our son, he saw daddy do it so he wanted to be cool and do it to. He got really good at the peeing but wouldnt stop pooping in his pants so we started giving him a small candy treat every time he went poop in the potty, its now about 3 weeks later and he has forgot about asking for the candy and he is fully using the potty. I think it really is a case by case thing, some kids just want to and some kids dont. A treat always helps, whethere it be a sticker or a piece of candy. Although, I think they only thing that will entice my daughter is new shoes <img src='http://www.85239.com/desktopmodules/ntforums/images/emoticons/smile.gif' height='20' width='20' border='0' title='Smile' align='absmiddle'> It always helps to put the potty in a social area. We put our sons in the living room to begin with. Then we slowly moved it into the bathroom. Oh and there was one other thing that helped A LOT. I told him that only babies wear diapers. Since he wasnt a baby we had to throw all the diapers out. I took him with me into the garage and threw the diapers in the trash. He would refuse to go on the potty and ask for his diaper (when they can ask for a diaper its definitely time) and I would just say "Nope, we dont have any diapers, mommy threw them away because you are a big boy." Ofcourse, I went back and got the diapers and put them in a hiding spot since his younger sister still needs them.

lbs

Posts:25

02/03/2008 7:35 PM	Alert
I need advice also! My son wears underwear during the day & pull-ups for bedtime. He is urinating in the potty but will only do BM in a pull-up. He helps me put the BM in the toilet & flushes it away. I've had him sit on the potty when I know he's need to go but he doesn't like the idea & we've had no success. I am offering treats every time he tries. I would love to hear anyone else's experience.

Nothingtodo User is Offline

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02/03/2008 11:57 PM	Alert
I think it's just kind of weird for kids to have to sit down to poop after standing their whole lives to do it. It takes adjustment and time. My littlest just got rid of diapers a few weeks ago and still struggles with the poop, but my other three did, too. It took a few weeks for all of them to relax about it, and lots and lots of sitting on a tiny chair and hanging onto them and occupying them to keep them there. My biggest piece of advice is to make it a team effort. Only one of my 4 boys didn't want to use the potty and boy, did we struggle with him. He refused to wear a diaper because it hurt his hip (he had a problem with the hip) but he refused to use the potty. It was a very messy week. Otherwise, all of our boys were in on the decision. They chose to get rid of the diapers, they chose when they were ready to poop on the potty (they asked for a diaper to poop in the beginning), they chose to get rid of the nighttime diaper, and other than encourage them to empty their bladder often to avoid accidents and help them remember, they wanted to be potty-users. And I don't care WHAT your mother-in-law says, there is no WAY your husband was potty-trained at birth. There is absolutely no rush, even if every one of your friends' kids are using the potty. They're just jealous that you don't have to rush around like a headless chicken looking for a nasty public bathroom to put their sweet, clean little bums on.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves. ~Sir Geoffrey Streatfield

My3AAAs!

Posts:109

02/08/2008 3:24 PM	Alert
LBS - My oldest daughter was the same way. She would pee in the potty but refused to go poo. It freaked her out is what I think the problem was. Well we tried everything and she would just cry and ask for her pull ups. Anyways, one day my husband left for the store and she said that she had to poo and wanted her pull ups. I told her we were all out of them and that daddy was at the store picking them up but if she wanted to she could sit on the big potty and go. At first she was upset and didn't want to do that then after a bit, she really had to go and caved in and sat at the big potty and went. Once she did it once that was enough for her to realize that there wasn't anything to worry about and bye bye went the pull ups. she was about 2 1/2 years old. She also needed to call her grandparents and tell them the big news. Thankfully my husband took a long time at the store. My youngest daughter is 18 months old now and she is already showing signs of almost being ready to be potty trained. I think it's because she does everything her big sister does and since my oldest daughter is 3 1/2 years old and still likes to have company in the bathroom the little one is starting to want to sit on the potty like her big sis. I am beginning to see that light at the end of the diaper tunnel.

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