I can't take it. I must be the world's biggest Dummy.She's just not ready yet. According to the book above anyway.
She'll be three in less than a month, but she's just not ready. I am reading now that her physical development is just not mature enough. She
Yesterday morning, deep into late afternoon, she held it all in the entire time she was in her panties. I put her in her pull ups for a nap at around 1:30 PM and not a second later...the dang pull up needed to be changed. What the? She's too smart for our own good, I think.
She knows when she hasta go. She wore panties all weekend...Until we had to go out or nap. She held off until the pull ups came out. It was a waiting game. I waited for her to have an accident or actually go in the pot when I put her there...and she waited (patiently) for the pull up to surface.
Ugh. Double Ugh...Triple ugh.
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I hate to admit this but i had to wear napkins till i was 5 years old! =(
i have so many friends whose kids did this...i don't really have any advice. i wish i did!
these kids are just too smart. they know you are going to pull out the pull-ups eventually. maybe the trick is to NOT put pull ups on?
I am going through the same thing with our 3 year old. I never had such a problem with one who REFUSES to go. I bought the cute Dora toilet insert and everything. Our two year old is doing better at it than her! I wish I had advice - I didn't know that book existed! I'll have to check into it.
God how I tortured myself, just like you're doing right now, about how I would never potty train my 3 year old son. He would have to leave business meetings in order to crap in his pants. But then magically one weekend he wanted to go and was trained in 3 days. (Ok a few accidents still, but mostly trained) They really will become ready all of the sudden. Just keep feeding their little subconscious minds all those potty books and videos!
Oy - if you figure anything out, let us know! Sorry - I'm no help...
Man...
I wish I could shit my pants again...
Is that weird?
Oh well...eventually. ;)
Steve~
Wow! I didn't know that book really existed! I'm experiencing the EXACT same thing with my twins right now! They'll be 3 in February, and I don't have them trained yet. I was trying consistently, but got off track when they got a virus. I can't wait for this to be over!!! Good luck!
How frustrating! My oldest is only 2 so I haven't even tried yet. A friend wisely told me that you I could train my son at 2 and spend a year doing it, or I could wait until he's 3 and spend a week. Nobody's told me what to do if he won't train at 3! Good luck.
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My daughter was ready before my son, but I did have to struggle. I held her back from training until my son was ready because I thought it would help him with the training. They were 3 years and three months when they were finally trained.
When she is ready she will go and there will be no looking back. I promise!
Pull ups confused Becca...She would not pee in the Pull ups but pee in the panties. Drove me batty! So I tossed the Pull Ups and she went to panties ... she pee'd and had accidents, but then for the last week we have had no accidents.
She does still wear diapers at naptime though. Patience and time is all that is going to work. Good Luck and never fret it will come together for her and you!
You mean this potty training thing isn't easy? Shoot. I was hoping that one development step in my daughter's life was going to be simple.
I need that book, too! I know Dawson has some time to really get the hang of this potty thing. But he's at this stage where he tells me he's already gone potty. I wish he could learn to tell me before!
I need that book, too! I know I've got some time yet, but Dawson is at this stage where he tell's me he's already gone potty in his diaper/pull up. I wish he knew how to tell me before!
I was wondering when I should start this...Oh well, better late then never.
There's nothing I think I'd rather do less than potty training. Just painful. Ugh. I'm germophobic and it just makes me want to hose the whole house down by the time I'm done.
Don't sweat it. I guarantee she will be potty trained by Kindergarten. I personally don't potty train. I wait for them to tell me when they are ready otherwise it can turn into a power struggle which has happened to my sis. Her son is 3 1/2 and will only shit in a diaper or pull-up.
I would talk to my kids about going on the potty and to let me know when they feel that they are big enough to do it. I didn't use rewards. Their reward was to go pick out their new spiffy undies when they felt big enough to wear them. My daughter's were potty trained around 2 1/2 and my son was 3 1/2. I got a little worried about him so my aunt promised him a special present once he was potty trained. A month later he still had no interest then one day out of the blue he asked to use the potty. He peed and then asked where his special present was. They are smarter than we think! He was fully trained within that week. My advice is to put her back in diapers (pull-ups are too expensive) and tell her she's obviously not ready to be a big girl who goes on the potty or put her in panties full time unless she will hold it until constipation. You don't want that, can cause major belly and butthole problems.
My first three were so easy that I'm terrified that my fourth is going to give me a run for my money!
In a way, it's a sign that she is ready that she waits for the pull-up (because she can control it). That said, I'm not sure how you deal with that one.
But I don't agree w/ that list of "readiness" things. Example, my son couldn't dress/undress himself and could barely get onto the potty, but he was interested in using it.
One thing I will say, though, is to act like you DON'T CARE AT ALL. It is so easy to get into a power struggle. That is near-impossible to do. Maybe you'll be better at that than I was.
Nice page, I felt the same way when I potty trained my son. They way I saw it, they have been going in a diaper since they were born and doing something else would be weird. I had a hard time but once he figured it out, he only had three accidents, 2 my fault.
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