I'm Convinced My Two Year Old Daughter Is Content With Pooping Herself.
@nya440 (11)
United States
September 8, 2015 3:19am CST
I've been potty training, well attempting to potty train, my two year old daughter. Potty training has been one crazy ride! Anastasia, my daughter, shows an interest in the potty but doesn't ever want to use it. Taking her in the bathroom every half hour doesn't work either! All Anna wants to do is sit on her Disney Princess potty and make the "pssssssssssss" sound.. She has tinkled in the potty before but she just gave up. I haven't changed the potty schedule, nor has she had any bad experiences on the potty. The kid just doesn't like the potty, and I'm convinced that she is going to be in diapers forever. I bought pull ups, potty books, princess potty, flushable wipes, child hand soap.. basically the whole nine yards!
Does any mother out there know a special way of potty training girls? I'm at a loss.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
8 Sep 15
each child is of course different. Does she have something you can motivate her with? A sticker chart for successes, with a prize at the end perhaps.
@nya440 (11)
• United States
8 Sep 15
Yes, I have handmade a reward chart for both potty and behavior. In fact I had to take her to Michigan Adventure this weekend because she is well behaved and filled that chart up in 6 months. They have items on it such as pick up toys, say please, say thank you, ext. They potty chart on the other hand says stuff like go potty in the potty, wash your hands, ext. I got. Disney Princess stickers for the chart because she is after all my little Princess lol.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
8 Sep 15
@nya440 Hmm. I wonder if its the little potty that's an issue. Have you tried the steps and the seats on the big one? Some parents i have worked with had to change the child's diet. Another helped teach the toddler to clean up after themselves. if they had to change their own poopy diapers (granted this took some supervision at first), this tended to encourage not needing to do so after awhile. Someone else I knew finally took their mini-minion to a child specialist, there was some fear in regards to pooping there i think. My sister went through that, and I finally made her sit on that potty every time I read to her, and she got an immediate treat when she pooped. not suggesting that necc, but I was like 6 and tired of dealing with her stinky poops.
@nya440 (11)
• United States
8 Sep 15
@Jessicalynnt no I haven't tried the big Potty, I thought that would be intimidating to her and I don't want her to be overwhelmed. Maybe I should try it though because she likes to be like the "big people" and tries to do everything we do. Lol
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
8 Sep 15
Maybe she's just not ready. 2 is pretty young. Mine were all at least 3 before we gave it any serious attempts, and although we had some problems along the way, each and every one of them was fully potty trained before they were 3 and a half.
@nya440 (11)
• United States
8 Sep 15
Did you know.. back in the day when there were no disposable diapers, children were potty trained between 15-18 months? Basicallyb as soon as they started walking lol. She shows all the signs and is a super smart little girl. Maybe it is to early but I figured since she showed interests in going potty and her being smart she might be ready.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
9 Sep 15
@nya440 Pushing her before she's ready will only make it take longer and it will become more frustrating for both of you. There's no reason to rush things.
@nya440 (11)
• United States
9 Sep 15
@katsmeow1213 I'm not forcing her to go potty in the potty... I'm not the type to duct tape a kid to the potty chair. Like I said.. I don't want to intimidate her. She knows how to undress/dress herself, how to pull down pull ups, she is discomfortable in messy pull ups and diapers, she shows interest in the Potty, she follows simple commands (like put your toys away), and she has pottied in her potty a couple times but just doesn't want to do it anymore. I would never force her to sit and stay on the potty. She comes in the bathroom when I'm in there, or walks to the bathroom when nobody is in there and says "potty" or "pee pee". It may be too early but I'm not forcing it on her it just feels like she took steps back because she was going in the potty (well peeing not pooping) and now she is not.
@patgalca (18394)
• Orangeville, Ontario
8 Sep 15
I had trouble with my first daughter in that she constipated herself because she didn't want to poop. We were up in the middle of the night holding her down on the potty while she screamed as she pooped. So much poop stored up it barely fit in the potty. But after that incident she was fine.
My younger daughter was really lazy. She was too shy to go to the bathroom in kindergarten because it was in the classroom. I got a call that she wet herself and may not be ready for school. They wanted me to pick her up and I said no. I made her come home on the bus like that and that taught her a lesson she never forgot. But she wore diapers to bed until she was 6 years old. She was just too lazy. When playing outside she would wait until the last minute and then come charging in the house like the house was on fire. I'd put her pull-ups on when I put her in her jammies, which was a mistake because wearing the diaper made her feel free to pee in it. She was still up and about and I could smell that she peed in her diaper.
She's 19 now and has no problems. They eventually grow into and out of everything. One thing I tried with my first daughter was having her wear the panties with nothing else (no shorts or jeans or even a shirt). She was looking out the living room window when she suddenly said, "Uh-oh". I rushed her to the bathroom but she had already peed herself... but she never did it again.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
8 Sep 15
She knows what it's for, but she just doesn't want to do it. There will come a time when she doesn't want poop in her diaper. Every child is different and you may just need to wait a few months and try again. Good luck, it's a rough time of life, I know.
@nya440 (11)
• United States
8 Sep 15
That's the thing though.. she pulls her pull ups down or takes her diaper off when she poops. Ugh this kid lol those are always fun messes.
@nya440 (11)
• United States
8 Sep 15
Yes,she follows mommy to the bathroom every time. She points to her potty and says "potty" as she pulls her pants and pull up down and sits on it.. but all she does is make the "psssssss" noise. Lol
