Potty trainig

So my daughter 18 months has been playing with her ptty chair for months now. She actually sat on it and used it three times. I don't want to push her at it. I really don't know what I am doing. Any advice is welcomed. I really would like her out of diapers since I am pregnant now. I think it would be easier to have only one in diapers.

Hi, I have five kids who are all potty trained and I still don't know what I'm doing. Here are a few ideas though, they make children books about potty training you can read to her. One of my favorites and it can be effective is panties with cartoon character, it usually gets them excited to use the potty. Oh and my sister made a sticker chart for her daughter everytime she uses the potty she gets a sticker, seems to work for her. Good luck

Yes, I agree with gimmeice. Its a task that changes with each child. Unfortunately, try as we might, sometimes our little ones just take things in stride. My daughter was potty trained at 22 months, my son at 38 months. The sticker chart is a great idea. We also used books and a special bank that held a penny for each "good potty job".

Best of luck to you!

You can't really rush them, it's a personal thing. My granddaughter was 3-1/2 before she finally decided it was time. It's not an easy concept to "understand" and I think helps if there can be conversation between parent and child. My granddaughter worked well with having a kitchen timer set and then asking her if she'd like to "try" at that time.

I like the Baby Center's articles: http://www.babycenter.com/0_the-abcs...aining_4399.bc

Some thing that might help with your daughter learning to use the potty is do "Power Drinking"

This is where you give you daughter as much as she will drink for the next three hours and take her to sit on the potty every 20-30 minutes - make sure she is wearing little girl panties during this time...... your daughter is sure to go tickle a time or two during this training period and with that comes success and in time no more diapers.

P.S.

Do NOT forget the PRAISE after each potty success.

I had two in diapers.....potty train that girl as soon as she'll let you!..haha

Um, what I found the most effective with my babies is to let them sort of hang around already potty trained children. My little boy went to Head start, and a week later he was on the pot and never turned back. He really wanted to be like the other kids. Then my daughter saw his accomplishments and decided to do so herself. It was an awesome chain of events...I was so happy.

Children really influence each other. If you have some young nieces/nephews, or friends with toddlers, or anybody like that...set up some play dates and leave the bathroom door open. An 18 month old will be curious and keep on eye on what's going on, she'll notice.

Good luck!

Are you home with her, or do you work?

One of the suggestions on some parenting sites is to just let the kid go naked! Seriously. Let your child run around naked for a day, and try to catch things. Take them to the potty every 1 or 2 hours - set a timer to remind you. That will supposedly help the child make the connection that poop & pee go in the potty.

But...my girl is 2-1/2 and still not trained. Oh well! We'll try again soon.

Good luck! I am not a parent yet but I know I would be shaking in my boots if i had one now.

My youngest daughter was a month off 3 before she was toilet trained. We started trying when she was 2, and for 12 weeks she wore "big girl's undies" every day (because she wanted to; after the first 6 weeks I was over the washing lol) yet in those 12 weeks she only peed in the toilet 1x. She was really keen, and demanded to wear the knickers but just never 'got' the concept. We went back to nappies, then just before she turned 3 she did it herself- wanted to wear undies, was told only if she used the toilet, and she did it!!! I tried every incentive I could think of- sticker chart, rewards, (her father used lollies but I didn't!!), everything but it didn't work. Not even wearing wet knickers. She is nearly 4 and still doesn't care if she has an accident...
So basically what I am saying is that they do it in their own time. I felt guilty as an early childhood teacher that I couldn't get it 'right' with my own daughter, but she just wasn't ready and wouldn't do it til SHE was ready...
So good luck, and don't stress too much. While it would be nice to only have 1 in nappies, if you had twins you would have no choice (that's the way I looked at it lol)!!!

Potty training varies with the kid. When my daughter was about 8 months old, I put her in a swim suit (prior to swim diapers) and I told her "you can't potty in your swimsuit". She told me every time she wanted to potty. So I bought some minnie mouse panties and said "you can't potty in your minnie mouse panties." And she didn't. She was SO tiny, and insisted on using the real toilet. She still needed to wear diapers at night.

All three of my boys I swore that they'd be in college before they were out of diapers, they were all older than three before they were diaper free, and all ran into stages where they'd be too busy playing and had accidents in their pants.

my son turns 3 this month and weve tried everything

stickers, books, cd's, undies w/cartoon characters

if I watch Elmo's potty time one more time im gonna have a convulsion

im convinced he'll use the toilet when hes ready

You can't rush it, some kids are ready before others. Like I said my daughter trained herself. The boys you could't rush, it just wasn't worth the stress. The potty chair was available, and I always asked but until they were ready it was pointless.