Faster Potty Training for Girls?
My daughter is 28 months. She’ll go to the potty, sit for a few minutes, and then she gets up and pees either in her training pants or on the floor. What can I do? She doesn’t like stickers or suckers.
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Make her clean up the mess. I think you will find this very effective, provided that she is ready and able.
Don't stress, when she's ready, she'll do it. If you have a young friend or cousin that she looks up show her, that can really help. When I thought my daughter was ready, I just took off her diaper that morning and said now we go in the potty. She's only had 2 accidents in the past 2 months. Good luck.
Take her shopping for pretty "big girl" panties and let her pick out her favorites. Then, tell her that she can only wear them if she can keep them clean and dry. Children need incentives to work for, just like adults. If she has an accident, don’t make a big deal about how she isn't old enough to wear such special panties. Just wash them and put them where she can see them, but not wear them. Let her wait a day or two, then tell her she can try again, if she wants. If it’s her decision she will be more motivated to succeed. It worked for my daughter. When she picked them out, she wanted to wear them immediately. When confronted with the option of taking time to go potty in the bathroom and keeping her panties, or having to wear "baby pants", she potty trained real fast! Then again, she was ready.
I had a hard time getting my daughter trained. I took her shopping with me and explained to her that she would pick out your own big girl panties and the potty chair of her choice. I took her to the store, where she picked out a new potty, only it wasn't a chair at all, it was just a seat which fit on our standard one. That made her happy and it had the advantage that we didn’t need to “train her again” when she was too big for the little potty chair. Good luck!
I agree with the panty shopping trip. My daughter loved the frills and pretty colors.