potty training

[toyab25]

they say girls are easy to potty train then boys but my daughter is harder what can i do

[froggylover227]

Well, I don't have any children, but I always heard that boys are harder to train, because of the whole "aiming" thing. But just recently, I went to a baby store, and they had these little star shaped flushable floaters that you put in the toilet and it's supposed to be the "target". But anyway, since you have a girl, I wouldn't know how to help with that. I did see in that same store a "potty training watch". It's supposed to beep when it's time to "go"...but how do you know that when it beeps your little one will have to "go"? It's a tricky situation I'm sure. Well good luck!

[home_teachin]

how old is she? All I can say is positive reinforcement works way better than negative. The more of a big deal you make of it, the more she'll stress out and fight it.
Relax, you won't have a fifth grader in a diaper, lol.

[alimitoducks]

Every child is different. I have 3 girls and what I did was when we'd go to the store, I'd tasked em to look at "big girl undies" with all those princesses and cartoon characters they love and she'd want them soon bad so I told her when you use your potty chair we will come back here and you can pi k out whatever big girl undies you want. It worked for us.

[audreyprsns10]

My cousin wet the bed all her life..........  even into her adult years.

[anubabs]

im not sure about which is easier cos i only have a lil daugther. She likes to pee in the potty but will not do number 2, i guess she kinda gets caught up in playing and forget or something. I got her one that sings each time something drops in it, so that makes her want to seat on it. Also sometimes she will force herself to go whenever she sees that im in also using the restroom.

[audreyprsns10]

im not sure about which is easier cos i only have a lil daugther. She likes to pee in the potty but will not do number 2, i guess she kinda gets caught up in playing and forget or something. I got her one that sings each time something drops in it, so that makes her want to seat on it. Also sometimes she will force herself to go whenever she sees that im in also using the restroom.

When my son was that age, he would not go number 2 for a long time.  Rather, he would just hide and do it in his pants, as if he was ashamed.  Then my mother started rubbing her tummy in front of him and telling him her tummy hurt.  Then she would take him to the bathroom with her and let him watch her sit on the pot.  After she did a number 2, she would point to it for him to see and act like she was so proud of herself.  Seeing that, my son started doing number 2 in the potty.

[Valerie1979]

my son wasn't too hard to potty train -- he is a mimic type of child though so he would really just watch others (daddy and of course the daycare trained as well) and he really picked it up.   we also made a BIG deal out of success!

We were told to try small tokens/stickers or candy as motivation -- we did this maybe 2 times and it didn't seem to make a difference, so we gave up on giving him things