I never potty train. My thoughts are - you can’t be 30 and not know how to use the toilet. In other words, they’ll get there when they’re ready and when they’re ready, it won’t be hard. Mine just kinda woke up one day and said ‘I’m ready’. True story. All before school started etc too. I never pushed them. I did ask ‘is today the day?’ everyday. But I took no for an answer. And it’s been very easy. Never really had night time accidents or anything like that. Maybe just a handful of those. And it’s not discussed as much more than ‘oh well… off to the shower we go’. I’ve always thought that putting too much effort into potty training has the reverse effect.
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Relax. Nobody ever gets to their deathbed and says “gee I wish I’d started going potty at 2 and a half and not 4 and a half, how could I get it soo wrong?” Lol
On the same sentiment nobody’s eulogy is like…
“she was a kind person, an old soul… and did you know she started going potty at 2! Wow! How about that huh
” lol
Parents stressing out about this stuff is like the adult equivalent to the age old childhood classic “are we there yet?”
And I say to you what I say to my impatient kids… “we’ll get there when we get there and not a moment sooner, chill”
It will happen, but it’s going to have to be in their time I’m afraid, and that’s okay 🩷
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Read the book “Oh Crap”. I love the title of course and the advice is excellent.
Potty training isn’t something you can force. My youngest son is 6 going on 7 and he still pees the bed from time to time. He sleeps hard. Boys develop the ability to hold it later than girls. My oldest was like this though, he’d be too busy to go. I left him naked most days because he wouldn’t pee on himself like that. Idk why but he wouldn’t. He quickly got the understanding that he had to go to the bathroom when it was time. You can’t hold it forever. He was 3 and he had no accidents. Every kid is different. What works for us won’t for sure work for your daughter.
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Remind her every.half an hour physically take her if needed
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Be annoying. Stay on her, sit her on the potty every 10 minutes.
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Kids are little and still learning they will have accidents and usually as the parent we must still remind them to use the potty my sons 4 and I have to remind him if he zoned on his tablet.
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I told mine at that age that if she couldn’t potty in the big girl potty she couldn’t go to big girl school. That seemed to be a motivator and made her start doing it.
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My girl was also like that made her clean if up herself and then go sit on the toilet even if she didn’t need to pee anymore so she knew that she will have to get up and go either way
Put her on the potty every 2 hrs
This really helped my daughter. She didn’t wanna use a little potty and it felt like forever to get her trained
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That is WAY too early. She’s barely a year old. She’s not being “stubborn” 
she’s not ready!
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By appreciating she’s not ready yet! Sometimes they won’t know they need to go potty until nearly 5! Talk about how it’s nice to feel clean and grown up. Buy nice underwear in a size bigger. You can get her to try for a wee every two hours. Also make a diary and plan to try half an hour before. But there is seriously no point unless you can get them on board.
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Mine didn’t start using potty until she was 3 and asked to use it. Then within a few days, she was trained night and day, I had a potty from 18m and scared her from pressuring her, I’d 100% wait until she’s ready. My lad will use it once he tells me he wants to x
She is too young! Don’t start until she is around 2-2.5. They can’t Hold until later. She’s not much more than a baby
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She’s not too early. Mine was completely trained day and night at 18 months. And all of my moms children were potty trained at a little over 13 months. She didn’t want 2 in diapers. The key is to be consistent and get the diapers off and use real underwear only.
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She is t ready - I had 5 girls - they were pretty easy
I’d say 18 month is wayyy to young…
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There will be signs when baby is ready don’t rush them because they’ll get frustrated because they aren’t ready
I can’t remember how old my daughter was I think around 2 yrs old but she was into Dr panda game on the phone and Walmart had panda undies and I bought her a big girl potty and told her those undies was Dr panda undies and she’s a big now and she went ever since 
idk she was my easiest to train
Let her pick out her potty at the store. And her favorite character undies. Just have her sit on it every 30 mins. Get her little rewards she’ll get it eventually.
Every child is different. My girl is 2.5 years and we still struggle. I work 40+ hours, 5 days a week. I can’t devote 100% of my life to potty training her. I do my best when I can. As moms we all do our best. Don’t force it
We had her wear chonies under her pull-up so she wouldn’t leak, but also had the discomfort of being wet so eventually she used the potty more. You’ll go through chonies, but it helped