Hello. I have a 4 year old daughter who will be 5 in June. She has always been a bit behind in some aspects. She worked with a speech therapist until she was 3. She is much better at speech now, but I still don’t think she is where she needs to be. She doesn’t understand certain things like time, or days of the week. I’m going to wait to put her into kindergarten until next year, because I feel like there is no way she will be ready this year.
She isn’t potty trained either, and I have tried almost everything. She seems excited when she goes to the toilet, but it doesn’t matter. I even promised her that I would take her to chuck E. cheese when she got potty trained, which made her really excited, but it didn’t help. If I take her to the toilet every 15 minutes, she just pees or poops in between trips. I have an 8 month old too, who is into everything, so it’s been difficult to go more often than every 15 minutes. I’ve talked to her pediatrician about the potty training, and he gave me tips and told me that it wasn’t anything to be concerned about yet. But I’ve never met an almost 5 year old who isn’t potty trained.
So my question is, have any of you been through this? Any advice would be appreciated. I feel like I’m failing her somehow, but I really am trying.