Toilet training a 2yr old who???

Question

my 2yr old daughter is showing all the classic signs to want to go to the toilet. she hates her nappy, constantly takes it off, (pooed on the floor twice), tells me when her nappy is yucky. But screams when i put her on potty. i have a normal potty and one that goes on toilet, tried both and she screams. anyone got any tips coz its driving me crazy??? please help!!!

Answer 1

I took my son to lunch and began a talk with him about using the potty like a big boy. I explained that babies go potty in their diapers and big boys use a potty. He idolizes his uncles so i also explained his uncles use a potty because they are big boys. We then went to Walmart and I let him pick out his own big boy undies (i think we ended up with 4 packages) and a big boy potty. Choosing these himself makes it HIS decision, not mine. I explained that once the big boy undies go on he couldn't go potty in them. If he did, we would have to back to diapers. I put the package of diapers on the floor next to the potty so he could see his actions would cause more undies or more diapers. I had him completely potty trained in a month! Make it special for her. Let her create her own safe environment.  

Answer 2

I'm wondering that if it's because she's scared that she'll fall in. Before you laugh, my niece had a lot of problems with potty training because her brother once told her that a monster lives down the toilet! If that's the case it might be worth trying getting her to see you go on the toilet (might be strange if you're not used to your child seeing you go to the toilet) and reassuring her that it's safe.

It might be worth bribing her too, if everything else is too difficult. Here's a great page of tips on toilet training that you may want to look at as well: http://www.kidspot.com.au/article+90+26+... Good luck!

Answer 3

If it were my child... i'd try buying one of those small potty chairs. Some kids are actually scared of the toilet and falling in or what might come out of it. The small ones that sit on the floor don't seem as scary and have a closed bottom.

Answer 4

We haven't started truly training yet but we have been successful getting my 2-year-old son, who was petrified of the potty at first, to sit on it comfortably for long periods of time. Here's what we did...

Stick to the potty chair for awhile as it seems less scary to them and don't bother truly potty training yet, you want her to like the chair before you add on the stresses of real potty training. Bring the potty chair out of the bathroom and put it in the room you spend the most time in, we put it in our family room. Maybe leave it out for a week or so, we had it out for months before he ever started training, without even mentioning it. Just get her used to it being a part of her everyday life.

Once it's been sitting there a little while, start asking her to sit on it for short periods of time with her clothes on. Make it a game and fun for her. If you want, you can give her a reward once she does, maybe a sticker, an M&M, whatever she really likes. Once she'll sit down on it, start reading books to her on it, fully clothed. Start with one, once she'll sit for that, move to two etc. It might take a little while, but she should start sitting on it happily because she realizes you read to her there, it's fun etc. Once that happens, you can start having her sit on it with no bottom clothing, or no clothing, depending how you plan on training.

Once she is happy to sit on the chair you can put it back in the bathroom, if that's where you want to train.

Good luck!

Answer 5

see

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

This best answer describes a way to potty train where the parent doesn't have to put the kid on the potty.  The kid goes to the potty because they don't have diapers anymore, they get tired of helping clean up their accidents, and they don't want to go on themselves anymore.  Yes, with some kids there will be a bunch of accidents the first week, but within 2-4 weeks they are completely, thoroughly potty trained, and the accidents you clean up in that time are less than the diaper changes you would do over the next year if you didn't train.  I hope this helps.

Answer 6

You could bribe her with something she likes, so tell her if you go potty you get a lollie or you can watch, ect.... it might work?

Answer 7

I don't know if you will really want my advice since my 2 year old son is no where near potty trained yet despite all of my efforts, but I can usually get him to sit on the potty (just not use it).  The week I was really dedicated to potty training, I made a sticker chart, and every time he sat on the potty, he got a small sticker, and if he actually used it, he got a big Elmo sticker (the whole week he only earned 3 Elmo stickers).  Now what I do frequently is agree to read him a book of his choice while he sits on it.  Since he loves being read to, it usually works.  It doesn't get him to use the potty, but it does get him to sit there for a while.