How do you potty train your child after already been trying for over a year?

Question

I am nannying a 3 year old girl {turned 3 in april} and her mom and I have been trying to potty train her for over a year now and she knows how to go in the toilet and everything but she just goes in her pants anyway. She will be going to preschool in 4 1/2 weeks and they won't let her if she isn't potty trained. So I need a quick and easy way to get her potty trained. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Answer 1

My daughter loves cartoons.  I started telling her that she had to sit on the potty if she wanted Diego or whatever to come on.  The only thing that worked with her was letting her sit on the potty and watch a cartoon.  Eventually that would be the reward if she went on the potty.  She got to watch her boyfriend Diego.

Answer 2

It's tough.  My son was over 3 when he finally got potty trained.  He didn't have a problem with #1, but asked for a diaper for #2.  I finally broke down and put him on the potty and pointed a squirt gun at him.  I told him I'd squirt him if he didn't go.  I think that I scared him a little, but he started.  I handed him the water gun and let him squirt it in the shower while he went and he thought it was just great.  Never had a prolbem again.  I guess you just need to find a way to make it fun and exciting.  I don't think "gun point" is the perfect solution, but something that makes it special.  Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

Take her clothes off for two whole weeks (shirt only). Tell her, no more diapers. She'll have an accident or tow, but it will work. NO PULLUPS and no undies until she has it down (she'll just go in them). Severe, but it works! She'll probably be potty trained in a week. Oh, and no going anywhere for her while you're doing this. It isn't fair to her. So, just take those pants off and show her how to go in the potty and encourage her. It works!

Answer 4

This is going to sound really mean, but I had a friend with a similar situation and what she did was let her little boy go bottomless for a few weeks.  Not having the diaper or underpants to contain the urine/f***s made him aware and trained him.  He was younger than 3, which helped with him not putting clothes on himself, but it was very effective, messy, but effective.  She sacrificed the time to stay home most of those weeks so that it would be consistent as when he had the diaper he would use it.  Good luck!

Answer 5

Try incentives for her.  What does she really like?  Sticker charts are usually really good.  Go to the store and let her pick out her favorite stickers to use and then when she goes in the potty, or even if she tries to go on the potty, let her put a sticker.

I also did have a cousin who let her daughter pick out some really girley underwear.  They wore it and when Trin had an accident and had to take the underwear off, she was really upset and it was incentive for her to not pee in her underwear anymore.

She's old enough to talk about it with too.  Maybe ask Her what she thinks would be good incentive to get her to go pee in the potty.

Good luck and be patient with her.  I've heard stories of kids being pressured too much and then not potty training until they went to K.