My daughter was trying but made a heck of a mess!!

Hi Moonchild, When you do the toilet training with your child be there with here from start to finish... explain to her why she needs to be trained and that she must be used to it. If you leave your child that's what can happen to her... she will play with it and even enjoy it. it will really be a mess. This happened to me too and i learned my lesson not to leave my kids alone to do their thing. We really have to bear with it mommy dear!

Yep! I have had to deal with that before myself. She was just trying to be a big girl and independant. My son is potty training and he actually freezes up when other people are watching him try and poo. The thing that is working best for me is letting him be on the potty (on the little seat) by himself, but I wait right outside the door. I pop my head in and ask every couple of minutes, but he still has his privacy. Another thing is that I have told my son that the Kandoos (potty training wipes) are his special toilet paper. He has to call for me when he is done, so I can get his special "toilet paper" down. I even made a tiny scene for him one day and scolded his dad for trying to use my son's special toilet paper. He really wasn't but it was fun for my son to see his dad have to sit in time out for not asking my son to use it! Little things like that tickle them silly!

I don't have kids, but i have heard of this happening. The best thing to do when trying to actually train the child, is to stay with them while they are doing it, so that they won't make that kind of a mess. As they get better at it, let them do more and more on their own, until they don't need you to help them at all.

I am not sorry. This made me laugh A LOT. I have had a similar experience though, and I am sure to have more. My son isn't too fond of the potty at the moment, though he does like taking his own trainers off when he doesn't want to wear them anymore.... Cheers.