I Did It!!! I Just Did It...( Potty Training 2Yr Olds)
Lounge By twinsline7 Updated 29 Jul 2007 , 3:19am by Brickflor
Oh Ladies! I'm glad I am not alone! My daughter will be 2 1/2 and she was showing interest back in April then my sitter went on maternity leave and my daughter resorted right back when she had to go to the back up sitter. She is showing signs again but see will pull off the diapers and pull ups and pees on furniture and thank heavens we have hard wood floors! She is wearing me down! I feel for you all. Hang in there!
Kelley
What do you all do to your children or should I say what do you tell your children when they pee on the furniture or floor, after the first accident & after various accidents... I 'm about to start training on two 2yr old girls.
Yikes
Usually with my 3 year old I tell her NO NO! That's bad! You don't do that! and put her in the corner after she cleans it up. It really doesn't sway her from doing it. So I feel like I'm wasting my time making her clean it up and putting her in the corner. She's just not getting it. So I really don't have any great words of wisdom. Patience is all I can say. Lots and lots of patience.
Also as of yesterday WE HAVE POOPY IN THE POTTY!!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!!! So she got to go to Chucky Cheese tonight. Now she thinks she gets to go to Chucky Cheese everytime she poops in the potty. Boy does she have another thing coming. The bad thing is she ended up pooping in her pullups this morning so we have a loooong ways to go to get her to go on the potty all the time. It's a good thing I'm a patient person or else I would be going bonkers right now. Well more bonkers than I already am. 
Ok, so here's my not so politically correct view of potty training...LOL
I don't consider a child "potty trained" until they can do everything themselves with only minimal help (say snapping up pants). Anything before that is PARENT TRAINING! So here's where you as a parent get to make up your mind. If you want to spend your time taking your child to the bathroom every hour, making them "try", or constantly asking them if they need to go that's fine, nothing wrong with it. Maybe you get lucky and it happens right away, maybe you spend 9 months "potty training."
Kids are ready when their ready. Some kids will respond to rewards or "parent training" and actually go ahead of their own schedule. some kids will resist and even fight "parent training" and could end up going later then they might have on their own.
I had all my kids pretty close together so I wasn't about to spend my time getting my pregnant butt into the bathroom with my toddler every hour. I bought a potty chair, told them what it's for, asked if they wanted to sit in it and kind of left it at that. Occasionally I'd bring it up and sometimes they'd go. My oldest daughter was almost 4 when she was potty trained, but it didn't take long and she did everything on her own, from recognizing she needed to go, getting pants off, wiping, flushing, washing hands, and all that. My next oldest was 15 months younger and trained about the same time, monkey see, moneky do right? My third daughter was a little over 3, but she still wouldn't poop in the potty. She was 5 before that happened. She wore pull-ups at night and would always poop then. It took some serious bribing to put and end to that LOL. My son is now almost 4. He potty trained about 5 months ago and it took only a week and he no longer had accidents, but pooping is still an issue. He gets a dollar store toy if he goes poopy in the potty (with a one a day limit). I won't push the issue with him much because he has constipation issues and I don't want to make it worse.
I can pretty much tell you that if you have a resistent kid, pushing the potty training will back fire and most likely delay the whole thing. If money is an issue consider buying cloth training pants. Do a google search, there's lots of work at home moms making such things and they're way better then what you might find int he store. Washing them isn't any worse than washing pee'd or pooped on underwear. And if you're throwing away underwear, you might as well buy the pull-ups. I did cloth diapers with my first three kids, but found it too much work when #4 came around (three in diapers at one time). You could also spend time figureing out when your child actually pees and look for signals and take them to the pooty then (some people do this with babies).
As far as accidents go, USUALLY, that's exactly what they are, accidents. If you punish them for it, it will make it worse. Their can be consequences, like if you pee on the couch when you were watching TV then their will be no TV until after you've gone potty. They can also help in the clean up. Kids who are just starting to potty train don't always recognize that they have to go and can't help it. Later kids get so involved in stuff that they don't pay attention to the clues. So, unless you've got that kid turning and peeing in the shower (LOL - that'd be a swat in my house), treat it as an accident and not a malicious act!
As far as accidents go, USUALLY, that's exactly what they are, accidents. If you punish them for it, it will make it worse. Their can be consequences, like if you pee on the couch when you were watching TV then their will be no TV until after you've gone potty. They can also help in the clean up. Kids who are just starting to potty train don't always recognize that they have to go and can't help it. Later kids get so involved in stuff that they don't pay attention to the clues. So, unless you've got that kid turning and peeing in the shower (LOL - that'd be a swat in my house), treat it as an accident and not a malicious act!
I completely agree with this, but my DD does this on purpose and not on accident. That's the only reason she gets in trouble for it. I would never scold her for having an accident. I will ask her a million times if she needs to go potty and then she will stand there look right at me and pee on the floor right in front of me and then give me a snarky look like "Look what I did, what are you going to do about it?" That's the only reason I would put her in the corner for that. Now there are times where it's an accident and I don't get on to her about it, but those other times... 
. Sometimes I just want to pull my hair out!
I just got my DD trained!! HOORAY! (She turned 3 in June.) For us the potty chart thing worked. I made a chart and hung it on the wall in the bathroom. She went to the store and picked out stickers and potty treats. She got a sticker and a treat every time she made it to the potty without an accident. (2 treats for pooping - cuz that is hard....) and when her chart was all filled up (100 stickers) she was pretty much done with the training and got to go to the toy store and pick out a toy. I never used pull ups on her, just put on panties (we call them big girls) and she really did pretty well.
Now the boys on the other hand.....UGH They are 8 and 6 now, but my oldest was nearly 4 before he was totally ok and I could have no fear about taking him places, and his brother was about 3 1/2. We did the cheerios in the potty and the whole bit. I think boys just don't care enough to do it. They would rather play or whatever. I still sometimes have little ....uhhhhhh.... skid marks in the boys underware when I am doing laundry 
because they don't take the time to wipe like they should....like I said, they are too busy.....LOL Boys will be boys. Good luck sweetie!!
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I completely agree with this, but my DD does this on purpose and not on accident. That's the only reason she gets in trouble for it. I would never scold her for having an accident. I will ask her a million times if she needs to go potty and then she will stand there look right at me and pee on the floor right in front of me and then give me a snarky look like "Look what I did, what are you going to do about it?" That's the only reason I would put her in the corner for that. Now there are times where it's an accident and I don't get on to her about it, but those other times... . Sometimes I just want to pull my hair out! [/quote]
Well, if that's the case I would treat it like any other thing that's against the rules. So whatever your usual punishment for things is what you should do. First though I would say, "that's totally unacceptable and absolutely disgusting." Make her clean it up and then impose whatever punishment is necessary. There's no way I would stand for that in my house - eeewww.
Ha, with my first dd I tried the naked trick but 3 pees and 2 poops on the floor later (yuck!) I said forget it, training pants. I started when she was about 26 mos. and she did really well, she used the training potty and big potty but one time when we were out, one of those auto flush toilets flushed under her and scared her half to death. After that I couldn't get her to sit on the big potty again until she almost 3. She would still sit on the little potty and hold everything if we went out.
Our 2nd dd was different, she's the natural born rebel and if you say it she's against it. We tried various things with her and since I was pregnant, I didn't want to wrestle with this. Well, a month after our 3rd dd was born I realized we needed to get moving, I wanted her potty trained quickly, before new baby started crawling. She was already wearing pull-ups 24/7 so one day I put undies on her and every 15 mins told her to go sit on the potty. 2 days later she was going without me telling her and a month and a half later she stopped wearing diapers to bed. She's had a few accidents and wet the bed once, but I could probably count them on one hand.
My brother on the other hand, each of his 3 kids weren't potty trained until they were 4, mainly because my SIL just didn't want to try. Her kids said no, she said ok.
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