Help!! I'm at my wits end!
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Cowgirl
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Well, then there you have it. 500 years worth of mothers can't be wrong.
Exactly.
Which reminds me....girlie is telling us when she "poopies" now...so I need to stock up on spoons!!! 
Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
I hard a hard time potty training my daughter, too. She wanted nothing to do with it. I decided to stop using those "training" Pull-Ups and she stayed in "big girl" underwear all day. If she had an accident, I didn't change her, but let her sit in her mess for a few minutes. She was potty trained within a week.Okay everyone...
I'm having an absolutely impossible time potty training my 2 1/2 year old. I've tried just about everything I can think of and he's just not getting it. He goes to daycare during the day and I think she's not encouraging it as much as she should...so he regresses after he's been there during the day. Sometimes he'll go on the potty but for the most part, he's more interested in disappearing for or a few minutes and crapping his pants
Does anyone have any helpful tips for a Mom who's getting ready to pull her hair out?
Dymphna
Loyalty, Friendship, Love
Yes, their little darlings are potty-trained...except in public, except in the car, except when they visit grandma's house, except, except, except....
I don't buy it. A few kids may be trained that young, but they are the exceptions.
My oh-so-perfect SIL has a girl the same age as one of my boys. In the beginning, she was all ready to compare notes..., "so is K starting potty training yet? My little darling loves to sit on the potty." My kids were in the later range of normal in training. I knew better than to rise to her bait and she stopped.
About a year ago, her mother says to me... "You know, she makes her daughter wear a pull-up in the car." The child was 5.
SShewbert
What love is all about
I have tried everything with mine as well. She will be 3 on December 1st. I tried the calendar with stickers. Didn't work. I tried the big girl panties and she doesnt mind sitting in them wet or when shes pooped. She now will come up to me and tell me mommy I pooped. I figured she is big enough now that she can tell me when she goes but I can't push her. I ask her if she has to go and she sits on the potty. Once in awhile she will go sit on the potty herself and go poop or pee. I figure when she gets ready to do it all the time by herself she will. I still wish I could get her to potty train though. If would sure save on money for pull ups.
Cowgirl
Well-Known Member
So why buy pull ups? Why not just use diapers? I'm sure the child can tell when she's gone to the bathroom.
Toxick
Splat
I bought her several packs of "big kid" underwear with favorite characters on them and a large container of Oxy Clean for the carpets.It worked!
This worked with my little guy. We got him some 'Cars' underpants, and told him "Don't pee on Lightning McQueen!" or "Don't pee on Mater!", you'll make them sad if you pee on them!
There were a few accidents, but it eventually worked.
A friend of mine told me to put 2 or 3 cheerios in the toilet and have the boy aim at the cheerios, to make it a game. I didn't try that method, so don't know if it works or not, but I'm fairly certain it won't work for a little girl though.
MMDad
Lem Putt
Exactly.
I don't want to know what you're doing with it if you need a spoon.
Cowgirl
Well-Known Member
Beating her with it, Silly.
Nickel
curiouser and curiouser
That's cute.
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
Pull ups are stupid. Do you really think a toddler can tell the difference between that and a regular disposable diaper? They need to feel the urge to go and relate that they are either wet or sitting in crap if they don't get to the toilet.
Boys take a little longer. They need to learn the fine art of control.
My oldest was about 2 1/2 when we started to train him..that was when he started removing his diaper and crapping behind a chair. I bought him big-boy undies and he was trained quickly. The youngest was 16 months..he was trained at the sitter's where he was the youngest of the kids. Peer pressure Funny, when he was home and I'd put the big-boy undies on him, he would say "No...diaper."
Cowgirl
Well-Known Member
Pull ups are stupid. Do you really think a toddler can tell the difference between that and a regular disposable diaper? They need to feel the urge to go and relate that they are either wet or sitting in crap if they don't get to the toilet.
Boys take a little longer. They need to learn the fine art of control.
Our youngest just potty trained herself. She was using the little girl potty, but found the big girl potty all by herself...I didn't even show her where it was. She's only 9 weeks old.
Lazy.
Doug was completely night trained by the time he was 2, but that's unusual. After he killed Ralphie, he never had another accident.
Kyle, we were afraid she'd be taking a spare diaper in her purse at the Sr. Prom.
Doug (3.5 years older) finally was like, "OMG! Are you going to be peeing your pants for the rest of your life?????" and that was pretty much that. She didn't like Dougie thinking she was a baby (she was closer to 3).So with my kids, it took a traumatic experience for them to stop crapping their pants.
SoMDGirl42
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My two older kids (girl/boy) were both potty trained at 18 months.
Cowgirl
Well-Known Member
Lazy.
Doug was completely night trained by the time he was 2, but that's unusual. After he killed Ralphie, he never had another accident.
Kyle, we were afraid she'd be taking a spare diaper in her purse at the Sr. Prom.
So with my kids, it took a traumatic experience for them to stop crapping their pants.
Dare I ask who Ralphie was?
I tried the cheerio thing (except with goldfish) but the little bugger fished in to the toilet and tried to eat it! Needless to say...that crap doesn't work!
I know it probably feels different in the big boy undies (there I go again!) when he goes...he starts crying immediately after doing it.
I also learned that he's not allowed to watch the Pixar movie "Flushed Away" anymore until he's fully potty trained...he was pretty terrified for a while that he'd have the same fate as that rat in the movie!
I know it probably feels different in the big boy undies (there I go again!) when he goes...he starts crying immediately after doing it.
I also learned that he's not allowed to watch the Pixar movie "Flushed Away" anymore until he's fully potty trained...he was pretty terrified for a while that he'd have the same fate as that rat in the movie!
Dare I ask who Ralphie was?
His stuffed monkey. Doug used to wake up, poop his diaper, then take it off and fling it around.
After the last episode, when everything was covered in ####, including Ralphie, I tossed the monkey in the trash and told him that he killed Ralphie.He's over it now.
Cowgirl
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His stuffed monkey. Doug used to wake up, poop his diaper, then take it off and fling it around.
He's over it now.
His stuffed monkey. Doug used to wake up, poop his diaper, then take it off and fling it around.
He's over it now.