Comments on: My Personal Potty Training a Spirited Toddler Nightmare ~ Help Needed!!

By: Jackie Lee

Jackie Lee — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:17:08 +0000

Hi Jenny! I feel your pain. I had to go back and re read the post because now Hanna’s 5 and we made it through, and that time seems like a vague memory. As I reread the post though, I remembered how awful I was feeling. At some point she just decided she was going to do it. Then when she was 4 we had a set back time again… turned out she was afraid to go to kindergarten… once her teachers talked to her and she realized all her friends from preschool were going with her she was fine. It seems that is one thing they CAN control ~ and so they used it that way. I’d say just take a step back… you can’t MAKE her go on the toilet, be supportive, and it will happen.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:31:49 +0000

This was a while ago….I just read the first 2 paragraphs and that is exactly where we are now!!!!! Please let me know what happened since you wrote this, for 4 months (since 18mo) DD has used the potty if shes not wearing pants, then all of a sudden its on the floor and the potty gets a big nooooooo….am scared for the future now

By: MomtoHanna

MomtoHanna — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:15:45 +0000

She did potty train ~ a while ago ~ and it was on her time. Still fighting with being consistent. I read “ScreamFree Parenting” and things changed seriously in our house. THEN I stopped doing Screamfree stuff and being consistent and things went to pot again. Back to being consistent and things are being consistent. So yes, I’m still trying to figure out how to be consistent!!

By: Christine Brame

Christine Brame — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:33:20 +0000

So, I’m wondering if we are long lost sisters, lol! I stumbled onto your website today as I Googled “How to learn how to be consistent”! I started reading through some of your blogs and chuckled at the similarities! As far as this specific post goes, I may be a day late and a dollar short on this one but if your three year old is anything like my for year old boy, perhaps you’re still struggling! My defiant, sweet boy was still not potty trained when he turned four! I knew it wasn’t for lack of grabbing the concept which left me with one final realization…he was being defiant. This is where I finally had to get tough so, we through him a potty party, cake,a present, decorations and grandparents, told him the pull-ups where going away, hid all of the night time pull-ups and bought him a new potty and new underwear and gave him the choice to poop in the potty or in his pants! He fought it for one day, never pooped his underwear and has been potty trained ever since! I will also admit that this is the only battle I have won with him so far! Hence the consistency inquiry! LOL!

By: MomtoHanna

MomtoHanna — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:00:05 +0000

AHHH, Deliese,

We do have her clean up the mess with an old cloth diaper, and have her take her panties to the laundry.

RE: loa ~ You are absolutely right!! I will do that tonight after I get her to bed.

Thanks for the reminder ~ I need them lol. I seem to think I’m the only one that can make things happen sometimes.

Jackie

By: Deliese

Deliese — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:22:21 +0000

Hi Jackie,

I just finished a lens on toilet training boys and of course there is an e-book that helps with potty training.

You already did what I was going to suggest and put her into training panties. It sounds like physically she is ready, but something else is going on.

It can become a power struggle if you let it.And she maybe responding to you as well.

Maybe if she pees in her pants and it gets on the floor, make her clean it up with your help of course. That worked great with my niece. My brother made her rinse out her own soiled diaper in the toilet. It worked. Not saying that is the way to go though.

My boys were potty trained by age 2 and we used cloth training pants and it worked beautifully.

I’m going to remind you of something else law of attraction. Write a new script for her. See her only using the toilet happily. Get into the feeling of her completely toilet trained. Do a meditation while she is sleeping and talk to her then about what you would like.

I hope this helps

~Deliese

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:04:45 +0000

Ignore the accidents, the less attention they get the less fun it is for her. Don’t go back to pull ups, keep her in underwear. Tell her it’s time to go potty, but give her choices to avoid a power struggle (what treat she gets after she goes, which potty to use, etc.) And email me for free personalized potty training consultations! pdxbabysigns at gmail dot com

They all get there sooner or later, hang in there!