2 year olds
By rileycrystal
@rileycrystal (30)
United States
6 responses
@stormeetigress (487)
• United States
1 Feb 08
We were having issues with our soon to be 3 year old too. Finally I got a plain white sheet of paper and some cheap stickers from the dollar store. Everytime she went pee in the potty she got a sticker if she pooped she got two stickers. When she filled up the paper she got a present. IE color book, color crayons, a movie, puzzle
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@rileycrystal (30)
• United States
1 Feb 08
thats a really good idea i never thought bout that thanks for the response
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@vera5d (4005)
• United States
1 Feb 08
I would give it up for a week and then try again.
Place her on the potty anytime you think she might have to go. If she goes on the potty, give her a sticker and tell her after 5 stickers she can get a treat (this is assuming she can count & would understand) You might also want to have her watch you go & see you get a sticker everytime you use the potty (I know this sounds silly, but kids like to do what grown-ups do too!)
I don't think my son was fully potty trained until he was at least 3, so don't worry too much about it just yet!! If she seems upset by it now, give it up for a few weeks and try again. I think pushing it too early makes them less likely to want to try it and reinforces negative attention so they won't go just to get that negative attention...
good luck!!
@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
1 Feb 08
M & M's is another thing you can give her. You can give her say 1 for pee 2 or poop. You can use what ever she likes, but keep it small. Stickers works if she knows not to put them on the wall or any thing. You can also make a Potty Chart and put 1 sticker for pee 2 stickers for poop and after say 20 (or what ever amount) she gets to pick from the prize bin. (go to the dollar store and pick up some things she would like it pick from) You always do more for poop cause thats really is the hard part.
@garnet80 (349)
• Australia
4 Feb 08
My son is now 3 and my mother told me that I should have had him toilet trained by the time he was 18 months. The huggies website offered the best advice I found. They said that all we can do is encourage the child and that when they are ready they will start toilet training. All I did apart from encouraging my son was to leave a toddler seat and a potty in the toilet and let him make the decision. And also ask him every so often if he needed to go to the toilet. Good luck with your little one.
@juliet17ak2002 (121)
• United States
8 Feb 08
How we did it is we never closed the door when we went. I don't know if thats possible for you. But she would come in with us and ask what we were doing. Then we got her a potty and set it up across from ours and let her try when she wanted. When she was actually ready to potty train we did the old fashion method of naked time. We put her potty in the front room and let her run around naked. After a couple of accidents she used the potty from that point on. After a couple weeks we moved it into the bathroom then after a few more weeks we moved it up to the toilet and gave her a stool. It's a long process but it stuck real well, and it made night time training easy. The one problem we had was out and about. Because of the naked time we had to wait on training outside the house.