I am going CRAZY!!!! I have been trying to potty train Ellie for a little while now! We haven't been able to think of anything that we could bribe her with, she doesn't watch T.V. or movies so she isn't in love with any characters, (what kid won't watch T.V.?) she is only attached to her blanket so I can't take that away but my mom had a great idea to get her a little purse and put stuff in it like lip gloss and lotion stuff. It actually worked, well for the first time only! She #2'd and she got her purse and 1 lip gloss, well she got that and now we are back to square one. I am taking her to the bathroom every 45 min, she does OK with the #1 but even lately she is still going in her pants before the 45 min. I can't get her to go #2. She doesn't care if she gets to pick out more lip gloss or lotion. She doesn't' even care if she is a baby in diapers! HELP!! I don't know what to do. I am so ready to give up. I thought she got it but maybe not. Heck is she almost 2 1/2! I can't have two kids in diapers! I have kept her in diapers or pull ups.. Should I do the naked thing or underwear? She just goes in them and I have a mess! ANY advice please?????
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Well I am in your exact same position! I have tried everything and my boys will not go poo poo in the toilet! They do great with going pee. If you find something that works, please let me know. And good luck!
Megan who is now three and a half is finally doing better. She did quite well and then kind of fell of the wagon this summer and would wet her pants all of the time. I have learned through our four kids that each kid is different; each kid has something different that will motivate them. Maybe she just isn't quite ready. With one of our boys we had to make him clean himself up when he had an accident. After one time of that he didn't have accidents anymore. With Megan we started taking toys away with an accident and she would earn them back by using the potty. It has worked for her. Time and patience are the key.
You are good, I haven't even tried with Ammie. She is over 2 and a half, but just doesn't seem to be ready. We are still working on verbal communication with her, so I'm hoping as that comes we will be able to work on the potty training. Good luck! If you find something that works, let me know, I'll need all the help I can get with this wild woman.
Hey Nicole!
Try doing a sticker chart maybe. Pink stickers if she goes number 1, and sparkle stickers if she goes number 2. After getting 10 pink stickers take her to the gas station to pick out a treat, and after getting 10 of the sparkle stickers take her to the store to pick out a toy...I dont know...sometimes that has worked for moms that called into the office! Let us know how it goes :D tell everyone hi and love them!
brandon is almost 3- in december- and he is still not potty trained, we've tried but just like ellie, he isn't interested and is content in diapers...soooo yes i have two in diapers and am keeping it that way for a while i guess...it isn't too bad...hoping tho by this time next year he will be...but who knows...
I was going to suggest stickers like Haylee. It works for my kids. Sometimes they want a chart to put it on and sometimes they just want it on them some where. Then they get a prize. Maybe a little one, but I just did one big one at the end when they could do the potty thing with out being reminded all the time. With Ryker though, we didn't do the pull ups because for him it just didn't work. I ended up just putting him in under wear. It took three days of him going in them all the time and then he decided he didn't like that so we would go on the potty. Reagan was different though. She just doesn't really want to go on the potty. Still. I have to remind her when she starts dancing around. She is just too busy or something. I am working on Jaxon right now. He is doing okay, but I don't put as much into it as I did with the others. There is just too much going on. He is getting it on him own though just slower than I would like.
I have to say though that two kids in diapers is not bad. I am potty training Jax so that I won't have three kids in diapers. Two is manageable.
Sticker charts and favorite little pieces of candy worked with Anna. I put her in underwear during the day (pull-ups at night) and she did have accidents for the first few days, but after about 3-4 days of being in only underwear she figured it out and would start to tell me. I would still take her every hour or so just to see. Keep trying! She'll figure it out!
Ugh! Potty training is hard! With Jacelyn I had to go to the dollar store and let her pick out a "potty toy". At first she would get her potty toy any time she went, and we had to go pick another. When she started getting the idea it turned into when she filled up the cup with marbles (I put three in every time she went), we also used it for every time she went #2, since I really wanted to nip that one in the bud FAST! This seemed to do okay, but she still had accidents sometimes. It sounds cruel, but after I knew she COULD do it, I would wash her off in the tub with cool water when she had an accident. That really worked, she HATED it! Don't call child services, k? :D Good luck!!!
With my Ellie I went to the dollar store stocked up on little toys,lipglosses, books etc. and kept it in a basket on top of the fridge so she could see it, but couldn't get to it. Every time she went in the toilet she got to choose something out...but if she had accidents she had to put the things back. It took about a week to get her to catch on and I thought I was going to die:^) because we did not leave the house, but just when I was about ready to give up she got it and has done fabulous ever since. With Corb, he is a lot more stubborn and I finally had to quit letting him wear pants. He just ran around in his undies for a week or two and we didn't go anywhere. For him we bought a little motorized motorcycle off ebay and again kept it up high so he could see it but not get it. Again when he went in the toilet he got to get it down and we would make a huge deal and take him around the block (in his undies no less:^) By the end of the week our neighbors all knew and would cheer him on as we rode past their house! But I kid you not if I left him alone for 2 seconds to even just answer the phone he would hide in a corner and pee or poop, and if this happened his motorcycle went back up high...and I was exhasted by the time we were done! And thank goodness for Trey because he just one day wanted to wear undies and put on a pair of Corbins without telling me and that was it, he did it all on his own. So it is so frustrating because all kids are so different. Good Luck...and sorry for the novel:^)
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