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| Hi! I'm new to the site. I have a 2 1/2 year old and a 3 year old little girl, Megan and Maria. Maria as the oldest was fairly easy to potty train and was very interested in being a big girl and wearing "big girl panties" but now the time has come to potty train Megan and I am not getting anywhere. Megan will tell me she loves her diapers and does not want to wear pull-ups or big girl panties. I have been encouraging her for several months now but it is hard to imagine her being less interested in using the potty. Megan is very independent and can be stubborn. If I try to force her to do something that she does not want to do she cries and screams and will not do anything for awhile except be mad. I don't want to push her too hard but I feel that the time to push her is getting close. I have been getting some subtle pressure from my parents and my in-laws about getting her to use the potty and it would be nice not to have to change diapers since I have been doing it for almost four years now. My parents and my in-laws understand Megan's personality and are being understanding but it seems that they are waiting for my husband and I to make Megan use the potty. Does anyone have any good ideas? |
| Posted by Renee on 09/11/2007 12:07 PM
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Hi
Welcome to thr site it is a great one.
Well my son is 2 1/2 and I have been training him for like4 months YES 4 months and he still will not poop and I have to be the one to put him on the toilet to go pee he wont just go. I gove him stickers and fruit chews as rewards but I just think he isnt fully ready yet, Boys are soooo stubburn so I understand your issue with your little girl. if I get any better hints I will pass them on .
GOOD LUCK
lAURA |
| posted by laura on 09/11/2007 01:26 PM
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It sounds like she is just not ready. Everything I read encourages not pushing. My oldest is just turning 2 and he will want his diaper changed after a bowel movement and is interested in flushing the toilet, etc but other than that doesn't seem quite ready. My pediatrician stressed to me not to push but everyone needs to judge readiness themselves.
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| posted by Janet on 09/11/2007 01:43 PM
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| I have heard you can't rush them into it, they will get when they get. My son is 2 and 1/2, he will ask to go, ask to change his diaper when it is wet and when he poops, but he just hasn't reach the maturity yet to hold it and I even bought the book how to potty train in a day and that was one of the requirements. so I am still waiting, we have gone from using the potty chair to the tolite, at least |
| posted by Michele on 09/13/2007 03:11 PM
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| I agree michele ! |
| posted by laura on 09/13/2007 05:58 PM
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| oy, when you figure out the secret, let me know!! My son is now 3 and still not potty trained and showing no good signs of being so any time soon. I am getting very frusterated myself! I have been working on it for about 10 months and for every step forward, there are two steps back. It does not help that my son hardly talks so it is hard to find out when he wants to go. Besides that, the toddler potties are too small and the toilet is too high so we always have to put him on the potty, wipe, flush and listen to him scream and whine for 20 min. afterwards. So good luck....I know where you are coming from |
| posted by Darnell on 09/19/2007 04:00 PM
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| My girlfriend son was 3 1/3 before he decided he wanted to wear big boy pants, but when he decided he never went back, I think sometimes they get it, but are to stuborn to do it! |
| posted by Michele on 09/19/2007 05:04 PM
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| first of all, if she's not dry in the morning, she's not ready. our oldest just needed to hear us talk about how we dont' like to sit in yucky poop and pee and see us on the toilet. then he wanted something and i said "i'm sorry, only big boys who use the potty can have that". he potty trained the next day. i guess he REALLY wanted sunglasses! seriously, i think all the talk about poop and where it goes helped. |
| posted by Christina on 09/19/2007 08:50 PM
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My son turned 2 in June and he stays dry all day long minus the few accidents when he is busy playing at the park with other kids. He tells us when he has to go and sometimes he just goes on his own. He still is not dry every day when he wakes up but he feels like a big boy and I think we should be proud of them for the effort!
Nicole |
| posted by Nicole on 09/19/2007 10:48 PM
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| Hi, Renee. Welcome. Just tell your parents and in-laws that most genius children potty train late in life... and there is plenty of written research to back up that statement!!! That should stave them off awhile! The truth of the matter is that Megan will potty train when she's good and ready... and it sounds like she'll be the type of kid to do it over night. One morning she'll decide to be potty trained, and it won't take more than a day or two of "trying." Do not (under any circumstances) allow yourself to be bullied (by your hubby, parents, in-laws, friends... whomever) into forcing her to be ready before she is ready. The thing is, she knows herself better than anyone else does... and if she's not ready... she's just not ready. Besides, as the younger sibling, she's allowed to be the "baby" a little bit longer if that's what makes her feel comfort... right?!?! (FYI... the sticker thing worked great with my daughter. I had a bowl of stickers on the back of the potty and a piece of construction paper with her name on it on her bedroom door. Every time she went potty on the potty, she got a sticker. If she went poopoo on the potty, she got THREE stickers. It worked great. She was potty trained in two weeks... but she had to make the decision to be ready to wear big girl panties herself!) |
| posted by Jamie on 09/20/2007 01:10 PM
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| Please don't push her it will only make it worse. And who cares what your parents or you in-laws say she's YOUR daughter. My daughter really loves freeze pops so I told her she can only have one if she goes on the potty. Although she is not 100% potty trained yet she is on the right track. When she is ready so will I. |
| posted by Trena on 10/03/2007 01:18 AM
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