I have a 2 year old girl and need some advice.
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If she pees on the carpet, rub her nose in it and rap her with a newspaper
i bought my son his favorite character underwear and told him not to pee on bob cause he woldn’t like it
Sit her on the potty before/and/after baths, when she wakes up from naps, and other times throughout the day. Put traing pants on her(not pull-ups, the real ones. Pull-ups work like diapers). Teach her what peeing is(being wet). Be patient. Try having an older child show her. This tends to work well. Sometimes running around naked helps them reconise when they have to go. Good luck.
Lot’s of patience and learn her routine. If she gets it right, stickers are always a great reward. If it gets to where YOU get frustrated, take a break and come back to training in a few days, or a week. She’ll get the hang of it before you know it. Good luck!
1.Make a chart with a grid.
Buy stickers your daughter will like.
Everytime she uses the potty corectly, let her put a sticker on the chart.
After a certain number of times, give her a reward.
2.Buy cool underwear, Pull-Ups, or training potty.
3.If she still wears diapers, change her often so she’ll get used to the feeling of being dry, and won’t like to sit there “wet”.
Rewards are usually a good way to go.
NOTE: If you do use rewards, don’t give them EACH time she uses the potty, give them every once in a while. (It’ll be more special, and she won’t CRAVE the reward.)
Here are some tips and tools that might help:
-Rewards. Though some experts say these diminish the real reward of potty training, the AAP says little treats, such as stickers or lollipops, are appropriate and can be effective motivators.
-Role models. Young children are natural mimics. Allow your child to accompany you, or older siblings, or potty-trined peers to the bathroom.
-Potty-traing books, videos, and dolls can also help demonstrate how it’s done.
-Switching to less absorbent diapers will ensure your child fells it when she’s wet-a potentially big motivation to train.
-Pants with elastic waist bands (no buttons, snaps, zippers) make undressing easy, bolstering your child’s self sufficiency.
-While pull-up diapers may give your child a feeling of independance, some experts believe they may actually impede potty-training progress. The problem is that they’re so absorbent, they dont allow children to feel the discomfort of being wet. Still, many parents choose to put their child in disposable pull-ups for naptimes, nighttimes, and long trips until they have achieved full bladder and bowel control.
Little boys love to aim at and sink cheerios. Just put a few in the toilet and they think it’s a huge game. Good potty training game.
Also, a good children’s book to read is called “Everyone Poops” by Taro Gomi. Kids think it’s hilarious and it too aids in potty training.
make sure she sees mommy using the potty and explain to her that its for big girls and when she feels like a big girl she can use it. don’t pressure her or she’ll be scared of it. As for pooping i went extreme with my son and took a spoon of peanut butter and his soiled diaper and held it to his mouth and said if you poop in the diaper again, you’ll hafta eat it. A little harsh but it was advice i got from a coworker and it worked.
I started out by buying a simple white potty that looked the closest to a regular toilet. No bells n’ whistles. Then I got her the “Feel N Learn” pull-ups which are great because when they are wet, they feel wet to the child. Then we had a “sticker” program. I would put her potty in front of the toilet and we would both go potty together. Every time she was successful, she got a sticker that she placed on the bathroom cupboard beside her potty chair. That way she was able to see the rewards of her efforts. And I also made a big effort to praise her really dramatically! Then we’d both empty her potty into the toilet and wave and say “bye-bye peepees/poopoos, thanks for coming out!” She’d sometimes just sit on the chair and “pretend” to potty just so she’d get a sticker! But she quickly figured out that she needed to produce visible results… It took about 2 months. Then I took her shopping and let her pick out her own underwear (Dora). She was so happy to wear them and very, very proud. She had a few accidents but I never made a big deal out of them to her. It got tricky when we went out because it’s important that as soon as said she had to potty, we had to pull over right away. I was sure NOT to fall back on the pullups just because we were out. It just prolongs the process. She was able to wear underwear during the day and a pullup at night. Then, eventually she lost the nightime pullup and I woke her at 2am and took her to the potty – every night for about a week. And then that was that.
Every child is different tho – the key is to make a big fuss when they go and not make a fuss if they don’t. Good luck with it.