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My little 20 month old girl is almost potty trained, but I cannot seem to cross that threshold. For example, she kind of knows that she has to go potty and when she thinks she knows when she needs to go potty, she pounds on the bathroom door. I get up and open the door. She runs in the bathroom, hands me her potty seat, I put the potty seat on the toilet, undress her, remove her diaper, and sit her on the potty. I sing my potty chant, she claps her hands, and I clap my hands, but nothing happens. LOL! It is a process. While my girl is sitting on the potty, she picks little pieces of toilet paper and throws them down the hole, just like mommy does. So, how do I get her to understand that when she sits on the potty, she needs to try and go potty?
Maybe it's more like a game to her. It seems like she really likes the potty chant. I would try using the chant only after she actually goes potty. Maybe do the same with the TP too.
Have her drink a lot of water. Not all at once, of course, but have a cup handy wherever she is. When she really has to go, she'll go.
Also don't make the bathroom inaccessible. Keep it open so she can get herself in there when she needs to. At 20 months can't she just sit on the regular potty herself? All the machinations seem to be more of a distracting game than the business of peeing in the pot. The celebrations only need to come AFTER she pees. No pee, no chant.
This all makes sense. I thought it might be a game to her, but I was not for sure. What would you all think if I got a stool and left it in front of the pot so she can climb up herself? Or is that too dangerous for her age yet?
The best advice I ever got about potty training which I used for all four of my children, was to only train in the morning. Once they go down for the afternoon nap, put a diaper back on and call it a day. It gives both of you a period of rest in the afternoon, when you don't have to be so vigilant. With my kids I did this and it seemed I didn't even realize it when they finally transitioned from training to being trained.
My son started potty training at around 20 months old. He turned two at the beginning of November and just in the last week or two he's started telling us consistently when he needs to go to the bathroom. AND he actually goes; before then he was a lot like your daughter.
Lose the diapers. Put her in underpants. She'll have accidents but it's okay.
That is literally the quick and dirty way to do it. I heard cloth diapers work well too.
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