we did the supernanny way...worked like a charm and we were completely done with zero accidents after about 5 days. Russell was two months away from being 3. i say let her run around in nothing but panties for the week (less laundry, makes her more aware and easier to jump on the potty) and once we switched to underwear we never went back, for anything so he wouldn't get confused or think there was an out. (except at night) i sound like a know it all mom. i think we did otter pops for our successes at #2's for a while just because I didn't want to have to deal with any accidents. good luck and may the force be with you.
Let me know what works. I am going to need a lot of help with Carter when he decides he wants to give it a try. He can tell me when he needs to go #2 but then REFUSES to sit on the potty!!
My sisters have given me the same advice that "Andrea" gave. Let them run around in underwear. They said it helps them more than pullups because when they do have an accident they get all wet. They don't like that wet feeling so they are more inclined to want to go on the potty.
Some of my friends have made a Potty-Chart poster with stickers and then when they fill up a line of stickers they get a prize.
Let us know how it goes! Brielle is so smart she will catch on fast!
Good luck! I hope you have better luck than us. Ethan did good a couple weeks. Then...he just didn't want to leave what he was doing to go...so he'd wet his pants, then just go change and put his 'dirties' in the laundry basket himself. We've tried about everything. We've learned that you just can't force them to learn before they're ready...it prolongs the process. So my only advice would be to not stress if she doesn't catch on at first, take a break, don't try and push it too hard. That's just ME...you may have this process down before we do! :)
It sounds disgusting, but for the first few days (maybe even a week), I put the potty chair in the kitchen, or family room, or somewhere that made it easily visible. (I put mine on a towel, in case there were "misses".) Then, every hour or so, we'd sit on the potty for a few minutes. Sometimes they went, and most times they didn't, but at least they learned to recognize the urge.
A friend of mine swore by rewarding her kids with Capri Suns or juice boxes every time they used the potty, which I thought was brilliant. (Mine were all trained by that point, so I never got to test it personally.) It hasd the added benefit of making them have to go potty even more, so at the end of three days, they were potty pros.
I used Gerber training pants in the beginning, which had extra padding in the crotch area to make it more absorbent in case of accidents. I let my kids pick out a few packages of "regular" underwear, and for every day they kept the training underwear dry, they got to pick a pair of underwear out of the bag. Once they had "earned" all the underwear, I put the training pants away.
I read most of the book Potty training in less than one day and it is really helpful and very demanding but I didn't want to be in the potty training process for months so I tried to go hard core. I am actually potty training right now and having good success. Things that worked Let them pick out their panties at the store so they were excited about them. Got rid of diapers completely (scary) but I didn't want to be wishy washy. Gave tons of praise immediately after I heard the first drops of pee and told them all the people that were so proud of them. Gave them a piece of candy after each time they went pee. Bought a pez candy for the reward of going poop in the toilet and it worked great told them they could have it after they went poopies in the toilet. Gave them lots of different drinks so that they were going more frequent and some salty snacks so they would want to drink. Used a timer and said when the timer goes off we'll go potty. Good luck it is an adventure and very time consuming and straining but the rewards of seeing happy children are great.
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we did the supernanny way...worked like a charm and we were completely done with zero accidents after about 5 days. Russell was two months away from being 3. i say let her run around in nothing but panties for the week (less laundry, makes her more aware and easier to jump on the potty) and once we switched to underwear we never went back, for anything so he wouldn't get confused or think there was an out. (except at night) i sound like a know it all mom. i think we did otter pops for our successes at #2's for a while just because I didn't want to have to deal with any accidents. good luck and may the force be with you.
Good luck...I have no tips. Let me know what you learn, though I'm sure boys and girls are different.
Let me know what works. I am going to need a lot of help with Carter when he decides he wants to give it a try. He can tell me when he needs to go #2 but then REFUSES to sit on the potty!!
My sisters have given me the same advice that "Andrea" gave. Let them run around in underwear. They said it helps them more than pullups because when they do have an accident they get all wet. They don't like that wet feeling so they are more inclined to want to go on the potty.
Some of my friends have made a Potty-Chart poster with stickers and then when they fill up a line of stickers they get a prize.
Let us know how it goes! Brielle is so smart she will catch on fast!
Good luck! I hope you have better luck than us. Ethan did good a couple weeks. Then...he just didn't want to leave what he was doing to go...so he'd wet his pants, then just go change and put his 'dirties' in the laundry basket himself. We've tried about everything. We've learned that you just can't force them to learn before they're ready...it prolongs the process. So my only advice would be to not stress if she doesn't catch on at first, take a break, don't try and push it too hard. That's just ME...you may have this process down before we do! :)
It sounds disgusting, but for the first few days (maybe even a week), I put the potty chair in the kitchen, or family room, or somewhere that made it easily visible. (I put mine on a towel, in case there were "misses".) Then, every hour or so, we'd sit on the potty for a few minutes. Sometimes they went, and most times they didn't, but at least they learned to recognize the urge.
A friend of mine swore by rewarding her kids with Capri Suns or juice boxes every time they used the potty, which I thought was brilliant. (Mine were all trained by that point, so I never got to test it personally.) It hasd the added benefit of making them have to go potty even more, so at the end of three days, they were potty pros.
I used Gerber training pants in the beginning, which had extra padding in the crotch area to make it more absorbent in case of accidents. I let my kids pick out a few packages of "regular" underwear, and for every day they kept the training underwear dry, they got to pick a pair of underwear out of the bag. Once they had "earned" all the underwear, I put the training pants away.
I read most of the book Potty training in less than one day and it is really helpful and very demanding but I didn't want to be in the potty training process for months so I tried to go hard core. I am actually potty training right now and having good success. Things that worked
Let them pick out their panties at the store so they were excited about them.
Got rid of diapers completely (scary) but I didn't want to be wishy washy.
Gave tons of praise immediately after I heard the first drops of pee and told them all the people that were so proud of them.
Gave them a piece of candy after each time they went pee.
Bought a pez candy for the reward of going poop in the toilet and it worked great told them they could have it after they went poopies in the toilet.
Gave them lots of different drinks so that they were going more frequent and some salty snacks so they would want to drink.
Used a timer and said when the timer goes off we'll go potty.
Good luck it is an adventure and very time consuming and straining but the rewards of seeing happy children are great.
ha!! good luck. You'll hate the process (maybe) and love the end result (most definitely). :-)
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