OT: Potty Training

[Momo1409]

Ok ladies! Now that we have the girls back we can finally start potty training Sophia. She was potty train at 1 1/2 and then all this stuff happened an she relapsed.

Well I wasn't around when she did it the first time and she's with me all day. So my question is... I'm doing the sticker method. And we are just leaving her diaperless. So far she's pooped right after she went potty and peed right after as well....

She won't pee on the potty so how do I give her the stickers? I've nevr potty trained anyone.... :(

[jessimika]

Try getting her to sit on her potty whenever you have to pee and then maybe give yourself a sticker and tell her if she wants a sticker she has to pee on her potty. Or read her a story while she's sitting on the potty and keep reading til she goes pee

[Momo1409]

Lol. She's a little Magiver. She just say pee? And then grabs her toy chest flips it upside down and climbs on up. She does it bout every 5-10mins and then gets bored and by that pt has to actually go! At daycare (they started a few week back) they told me she use to sit for half an hour on the toilet at a time!

Thnx ladies we'll keep working at it!

[Ashelen]

also...have you heard of the tee-tee timer? it works wonders...

(if you haven't basically what you do is set a timer to go off after a reasonable amount of time between potty breaks...like, if she goes potty you set the timer for however long you think she'll go before needing to pee again, and when the timer goes off you take her to the potty...you'll get better and better at figuring out how long she can hold her bladder after a few days, but it helps so you don't lose track of time :) ).

[Ashelen]

The way that we did it with my daughter (she's about half/half potty trained right now)...you just keep putting them on the potty at regular intervals and eventually you'll get lucky and she'll pee while she's on the potty...make a HUGE deal about it. stickers, treats, hugs, kisses, mommy's so proud...and then you have to go through the whole "put her on the potty and hope you've timed it right" process again...but sooner than later she's going to connect the dots and realize that peeing/pooing on the potty= yay! now my daughter asks to be put on the potty...the only problem is, half the time she's already peed. we're getting there, lol, but we've only REALLY been potty-training her since friday so..it's not so bad. she, too, was potty trained at 1 1/2 yrs but we had to go out of town for a month to take care of DH's dying grandfather, and I'm not joking when I say that every time my poor little girl had to pee there was an old person in every single bathroom...so she regressed. then her brother was born...so we just let her be for awhile, but now we're getting serious again :).

[Momo1409]

But she doesn't pee on it at ALL so idk how to introduce the stickeers??

[smjmekg]

Everyone I know says boys are harder. Elijah stopped going on the potty completely after all our moving around, it only took about a month and a half to get him going pee again AND he'll poop on it now. He still has an accident when he's too busy and doesn't make it, or he's doing something, but for the most part he's potty trained, as long as he's naked. He'll go in his pants/underwear if he's wearing anything.

I've never been around a potty training girl, and you can "see" when a boy has to pee so I was able to grab Elijah and run to the potty with him. BUT what worked for me was making it a huge deal, not like if you don't go pee on the potty a monster will get you kinda deal. BUT taking him to the potty when DH or I would go and showing him we "put our pee pee in the potty" and letting him flush it. Every time I'd get him to go I over-did the reaction, "wow look you put your pee pee in the potty, yay, mommy's so happy, that's a big boy". The more excited you are, the more excited she will get, and the happier she will be and she'll want to do it more. We gave Elijah an M &M or something like that, and when he'd ask for whatever treat it was, we'd tell him he had to pee on the potty first, and he'd go to the bathroom and pee. I don't think at his age he would have understood the sticker thing, and I'm not one of the moms that don't allow their kids any sugar at all.

Good luck, time and patience is what it takes.