OT: Need Potty Training Advice-DD can "hold it" all day!

[roadtrippin2wdw]

I know it's not possible to sit in the bathroom all day (at least it wasn't for me) so I brought out the portable little kids potty into the kitchen or living room. Wherever I had to be. This phase is very short lived in the big scheme of things. If there is no medical issue- before you know it, this will pass, I remember thinking about these things (except a BM issue for mine) all day everyday. Good luck!

 

[Mommy2Abby]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I knew I could count on you for some great ideas!

I will definitely try the running water trick too. I was worried about it being a medical issue too, but my pediatrician sort of blew me off as being concerned about nothing, saying it is just a power struggle at this point.

She does not have BM's on the potty either...but we've had issues since she was 3 months old with that. She takes Miralax every day to help us keep things moving, so I've tried not to focus on that. I would be thrilled if we could just get the peeing in the potty down.

I will keep working on finding a reward that works for her too. Several people have suggested that I use our trip to WDW in September as motivation (we have lunch at the castle planned) but I'm afraid it's too far away to be impactful.

At the very least, it helps knowing I'm not alone in this struggle. Three year olds can be SO challenging!

Mommy2Abby

 

[disneycruising]

I have 4 kids and all of them hard their own way of potty training. I have also been a toddler teacher...so I have potty trained a lot of children.

I would suggest:

*Setting a time to potty train her. Pick a week that you can 'stay home' and with potty.

* Make 'potty training' seem like a " big deal"...something she should be very excited about.

*I think it is very confusing to children to go back and forth between panties and diapers during the day. Tell her she is a big girl and big girls only wear 'big girl panties'. Then no matter what don't go back. A diaper at night is okay until she has outgrown wetting at night. Once my girls were potty trained during the day...they also stayed dry at night.

* I would start out... taking her "potty" every couple of hours. Once she gets it you can space out the trips to the potty.

*Pick something that she loves more then anything else in the world. Use this as your item to bribe her with. She can only have this item if she goes potty she can have this special item. It might be tv time, a special toy, trip to the park, play time outside.

*When my kids went pee in the toilet we would call grandma and she would "gush with excitement over it". This helped! We would also call her aunt too.

* When I started potty training I would give my kids a skittles (2 with nut allergies too). Once they figured out how to go "pee" in the potty.
--I changed to earning a "trip to krispie creme for a donut"... if they
stayed dry for 1 day.
--Then moved to, if you stay dry for 5 day... you can get to go out to
ice cream with daddy.
--After 10 days of this, we went to if you do not have accident for one
week we will buy you ? or take you somewhere.

* Potty training is something they have total contol over. But that doesn't mean we can bribe them to do what we want.

*Never make it a power struggle. Take her potty if she doesn't pee move on. Try again in a little while. You can also just send her to go potty on her own.

Good luck!

 

[robinb]

How old is she?

 

[Mkrop]

For my oldest the bribes did not work one bit, he would hand things back to me, I would try to show him these as incentive, or I had the chart. He said no thank you to candy. He seemed unmotivated to go out for ice cream. (any other time he would love to do this so we knew it was a power struggle), nothing worked for him except the 2 hour method.

I know bribes work for a lot of kids, I just happen to have one that wanted no parts of being bribed.