My cousin turned 3 in June and isn’t potty trained yet and I’m especially tired of changing her poop diapers, it’s getting really disgusting, her speech is really really delayed and most of the time when I talk to her I feel as I’m not getting to her, if you know what I mean, I babysit her daily since her parents work, so I want to potty train her, but I have a feeling she isn’t ready..because of her speech issues, she can only say like 20 words and everything else is ah dah or dee dah..idk what to do??
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the more you push the more the kiddo will resist. this is something that is done on their time and not yours. you can introduce the potty to them but it is up to them when they are ready to use it. and quit making fun of her because of the way she talks. every kid develops different. I don’t believe in those charts. I hate it when people compare kids with others. no wonder why kids these days has such esteem issues.
this may sound weird…but it only took ONE DAY for me to train my son…he never even wet the bed…go and buy her a special ‘baby’…(something NEW…a stuffed toy works well), tell her its HER baby and she has to potty train it…put a pair of training panties on it…make her take it to the potty, do not put a diaper on it….thats showing her the negative…when she tells you that her baby went to the potty…give her/the baby a treat…..i only bought ONE pack of huggies pull ups….and he only wet them one time….hope it works…
If you don’t think she is ready then I wouldn’t even try it because if you think that changing poopy diapers is gross then cleaning up pee and poop out of underpants and off floors will be even worse.
But if you want to see how she goes, maybe just put underwear on her when she is outside or even after she has done a poop.
Her parents need to have her tested to see if she is developmentally delayed. Once this is determined, then help will be made available. She probably is not ready to potty train. If you are talking to her and she is not understanding simple things then potty training is only going to frustrate the both of you.
It sounds as if you are frustrated and I can understand. Realize though that with you being frustrated your cousin IS sensing that and resisting potty training. You can get her potty trained once you get over your frustrations. It may take a little more time but you can do it.
Work out a plan with the parents before starting that way you all can be on the same page and same schedule for when you are not there. A consistent schedule is important right now.
My oldest son had a speech delay and other developmental delays that contributed to his delay in potty training. After taking a break and preparing myself for potty training I got him potty trained in one weekend.