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My 2 year old loves to sit on the potty but the thing is, she doesn't do anything when she's on there. You ask her if she wants to use the potty and she says "Yes!" or "Potty!" but when you take her to it she doesn't do anything. Half the time the pull-up is already wet. I got her the cool alert pull-ups with the princesses on there. She loves them! But I don't think she really cares when/if it gets cool. Any potty training advice from you ladies for me!?!?!?
Thanks so much in advance!
-Crystal |
| Posted by Crystal on 03/21/2008 11:57 AM
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| if you really want to potty train her, get rid of the pull ups and go to underware |
| posted by Michele on 03/21/2008 02:12 PM
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| My two year old son is EXACTLY the same way (but he has spiderman feel and learns!) As soon as we put the feel and learn on him, he grabs his crotch and runs to his potty, daddy runs in with him. He pulls the pants down and sits there and acually taps his foot! it's cute but, completely non productive. An hour later, when the feel and learn is soaked, he doesn't even want it changed. We also have a 6 mo old daughter so, I am still not pushing the potty training as I am thinking he may regress because his sissy gets the attention when she gets her diaper changed. When he shows interest, we go with it but, we aren't pushing yet. Good luck! |
| posted by Melissa on 03/21/2008 02:41 PM
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| I completely agree is michele. I used underwear with my son, and he's been potty trained since 22 months old. It makes a mess, but my son hated having wet underwear and the feel of it running down his leg. He's now 2 1/2 and completely trained day and night. I took an entire week staying at home and working on just that, going every 30 minutes. |
| posted by Sam on 03/21/2008 04:32 PM
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My son is 18 months and loves sitting on his potty, but has only actually "used it" once. He normally tells us "too too" after he has gone in his diapers, but not before. He also doesn't seem to mind when he urinates in the diapers, so he doesn't alert us.
However he is still young so i'm just letting him get familiar and hopefully soon start telling us before and rushing tot he potty. |
| posted by Afihtan on 03/22/2008 02:57 PM
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| I know exactly how you feel my daugther would do the same things when i started potty training her, but like was said before stopping the use of pull ups will probalbly be your best bet. I found that once i stopped using them and went to underwear with her she felt more like a big girl than a baby, i would start putting her in underwear during the day and taking her in the bathroom with me every time i went to show her how big girls use the bathroom. I would also reward her with stickers and such every time she would even tinkle it gave her encouragement and incentive to use the potty on her own. It takes time but sooner or later she'll get sick of being wet and want to start using the potty. Good luck. |
| posted by amber on 03/24/2008 11:43 AM
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| I don't know for girls but my pedi said for boys the training age is 2 1/2 to 3. And if it is started to early it could just prolong things, which is what we have learned the hard way. My son turned two in Feb and we didn't pressure him but we mentioned it and left it up to him if he wanted to sit on the potty and let him know it was there if he wanted to try, he did for the first three weeks and then he started holding his BM. We are now havning to give him mirilax. The pedi said it is a sign that he is close to potty training but that maybe he was feeling a little pressured. So we have stopped even mentioning it and just trying to get his BM back to normal, she told us to leave the potty out but let him go at his own pace and to get more serious about it closer to 2 1/2. It may be earlier for girls though, the best form of PT I have heard is wearing real underwear, that is what I plan to do. Pull ups I think are just fancy diapers, I believe they grasp the concept better when the get the feeling of wet and dirty diapers. I have a friend who PT her daughter in one day this way. Best of Luck. |
| posted by amy on 03/24/2008 02:09 PM
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