Friday, April 30, 2010

Advice for potty training a two and a half year old girl with no interest in using the potty?

I have a two and a half year old little girl. We have tried everything including bribing her to get her to use the potty. She just seems to have no interest. She will sit on the potty for an hour if I give her something to do but will never go to the bathroom. The minute we put her diaper back on she goes!Advice for potty training a two and a half year old girl with no interest in using the potty?
Ah, the rewards almost never work, and she is only two and a half, so you have nothing to worry about. Just go with pull ups or diapers for now. And is she using a potty seat or the full sized toilet? because the full sized toilet might be intimidating to her too pee or poop in, or she might not like the potty chair, either way, try asking her which one she would rather use, and try the one you are using not now.


Then enrolled her in a daycare, it is actually illegal for schools to discriminate against children because they are not toilet trained yet (in most states at least). Enrolling her in daycare/preschool will help because if once she makes friends, and she sees that they are using the potty, while she is still in diapers, she will get the social que to use it too. I have seen it happen before. And she doesn't even have to stay the entire day, maybe just three or four hours.


And when she is ready to go poop in the potty, she will do it, she is not even three after all.Advice for potty training a two and a half year old girl with no interest in using the potty?
I have a friend whose child is going through the same thing. Our kids are the same age, and we even had them sit in the bathroom together so her little boy could see how mine did it. It didn't work. We figure that you can't rush it. Your little girl will start using the potty when she's ready. If you push her too much before she's ready, it could be counterproductive-that is, she could get freaked out by the potty and it can actually cause a bigger delay in training her. Don't worry, just keep encouraging her, and she'll catch on eventually, she's still really little. =)
I know this sounds bad, but you might have to bribe her. Maybe say that if she goes potty on the toilet, then she gets 1 M%26amp;M. Something like that! Or she has to go to time out for 2 minutes if she doesn't? Maybe something similar to that. I hope I helped!
The best thing you can do while potty training is to not push her to do it. She has to want to do it on her own. When she's ready then she will do it. She's still pretty young.
put her in regular panties and let her wet herself and then tell her that's bad etc. whe she goes to bed put her in pull-ups and teach her those are her big girls panties and she shouldn't pee in them.
Take her shopping for all the new girlie panties she gets to wear and then put them on her. When she dirties herself enough she will hate the feeling and maybe it will help her want to use the potty. Good Luck!

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