How to potty train girls?

Is she indicating she’s ready? I leave my son naked and keep a potty chair close by. He usually gets mad and wants a pull up on because having to sit on the potty takes away from play time. :person_facepalming:

Mine watched me and went on her own except poop which took 6 months to achieve

Use a regular toilet. Set them on backwards so they can hold on. Kids are afraid of falling in. For little girls, buy some lacey pretty panties. Tell them when they learn to go potty, that is what they can wear instead of ugly pampers or traing pants …I trained 6 kids, in about 2 weeks…

Buy this. Put your baby on it every couple of hours. Use an incentive chart…… we did stickers & m&ms. My girl was fully potty trained by 2.5 years

M&Ms…
My daughter resented the interruption of having to go sit on the potty. M&Ms made it worthwhile. It helped her to have success. Success breeds success

Decorate her potty chair my sister did it for my daughter and she started going on it all the time.

A friend who is going through this and bed wetting with her daughter said her Dr told her…No caffeine, no red dye-lots of fiber.

With my twins I think it was about 2 weeks and they were potty trained…My daughter got it very quick, my son took a few days longer.

My girls loved ruffle panties. I bought some ballerina style ruffly panties and it took about a week. They wanted to wear those. But if a child is lactose intolerant or something, that’s hard, so eliminate that kind of problem. One of my daughters wet her bed until 7. Then she wanted to go to a sleep over and I told not until she’d been dry at night for a couple weeks. She was. So for some kids, its motivation. Find out what motivates your girl.

There was a program that I saw somewhere about potty training in something like 3 days. Im sorry I cant remember where I saw it.

Watch the signs in the Almanac

One day after much trial and loss. It’ll just click Stick with it…;!

Don’t ask…just take them…

Rewards. Gave an M&M for every try. Extra for success.

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I bought satin rumba seat panties. You know the kind with ruffles across the butt. Put them in her room and told her they were big girl panties because they never get accidents in them. She worked hard to be able to wear them.

Help a mama out and respond anonymously on our forum. How to potty train girls?

Don’t ask just take her every 30mins and no liquids before bed.

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Dont ask just take her to the bathroom . and dont give her anything to drink before bed and take her to the bathroom before bed . i stopped putting a diaper and let her run around naked and after 2-3 days she didnt like the feeling after peeing or pooping on herself and started going to the restroom . i did that w my nephew as well months prior to potty training her .

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Try a reward system. Stickers on a chart for a new toy if she gets so many, as well as praise. Model the behavior too, I know that’s “private” time but bring her with you when you go and ask her for a high 5 when you are done. My oldest gave me a tough time until great gram rewarded with ice cream cones every time they went on the potty. (I didn’t want to reward with food) but it got us over the hump.

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Honestly what worked with me is my daughter didn’t like those little training potties and I always would try to get her to use that and she would never potty train. Once I put her on a regular toilet didn’t even use one of those inserts or anything she used it and has been potty trained since. I think it had a lot to do with she just wanted to be like me she didn’t want to use that little potty because I never do. It’s worth a try something that simple worked for me and I tried everything before that.

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We gave spare change to my cousin if she tried, paper dollars if she went. They went in one of those big water jugs for a trip to Disneyland… our reason for her “ you can’t wear diapers at Disneyland, it’s against the rules”
When she was potty trained my aunt and family took her to Disneyland and her bank paid a good portion of it.

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One of my girls was like that. I just started telling her ok let’s go potty every hour or 2 Sometimes she wouldn’t pee but when she did I made a big deal about it and eventually she started going & would tell me when she had to pee. Still occasional accidents but

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Reward system. Read a book while she sits in the potty

My daughter turned 2 in February. About a month ago we started potty training and she pretty much has it fully down. She still has accidents here and there (especially in the car) but other than that, she’s done amazing. The first day I just left her completely naked. Obviously she had a lot of accidents and I spent a lot of the day cleaning lol but by the second day, it had registered that she was supposed to go in the “big girl potty” lol I sat a timer for every ten minutes. (That’s the time span that worked best for us) then we slowly worked our way up to every 20 minutes. LOTS of praiss everytime she used the toilet and by day three, she was telling us when she needed to go potty. We didn’t use a little potty, we started her off immediately on the regular toilet and I’m so glad we did! We basically just waited and watched for signs that she was ready and then just did it. We didn’t push her, no bad looks or negativity when she did have an accident. Just explained that we potty in the big girl potty. Hang in there. It’s super time consuming and a lot of dedication but she’ll get there. I literally didn’t leave my house for the first 5 days cause I didn’t wanna interrupt our potty schedule lol ohh Annnnnnd after the first day of her being naked, we went straight to panties. We only used diapers at nap time and bed time.

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3 day potty training. Google it. Basically you stay home and she goes without a pair of pants or panties on. And you let her sit on the potty every 30 minutes while she is on the potty, she get to play with a new toy, or read a new book something super special or even tablet time. Once she is off the potty the special toys go away unless she went. Keep repeating putting her on the potty EVERY 30 MINUTES. If she goes in the potty wait 1hr before putting her back on, then repeat the process. Make a big deal of potty and let her have the potty toy for a bit. Next day introduce panties after she goes potty. Keep up with the 30 minute potty intervals.

We trained our daughter by giving her praises when she poo and pee in the toilet. She’s 3 years old. And one day we gave her a prize after a day or two that she went to the toilet… every 30mins we ask her if she needs to pee and we race to the bathroom like a game

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Take her to the pediatrician to rule out any physical problems that may be causing incontinence. If she checks out with no problems, put her in a diaper and don’t make an issue if it. When she realizes she is not able to control you with her infantile behavior, and that she is humiliating herself for nothing she will potty train herself.

I left my son pick out any underwear he wanted at the store but he had to promise that he wouldn’t pee or poop in the underwear or Spider-Man would come and take them back. I only bought a 4-pack. The days he wore them, no issues. The days he had plain ones on? Accidents galore. Go figure.

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Hate to say it but sit her on the potty with crayons and coloring books or a tablet and let her just sit. That’s how we got my girls to do it

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She will do it in her own time. Each child is different.

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What I did is we made a potty chart and every time she went potty she put a sticker on her chart. Once she went 3 days in a row she got a sucker of toy and after 2 weeks she was completely potty trained.

I’m in the process now with potty training and she’s got it just about down. I started with a trip to the store and she picked out her own underwear. We already had a Minnie Mouse toilet(her fav character). Then it was a whole weekend home and sitting on the potty every 20 mins. And when she did pee we had a dance party😁. And poop she got a small bag of m&m. She now will only use the big potty and it’s been a week😁. Good Luck Mama, she’ll get it.

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My daughter is 3 an a couple months she knows when she has to go to the bathroom an sometimes she will use the potty sometimes she won’t she tells me she’s a baby when she don’t an other times she tells me she’s a big girl it’s a struggle ypy just have to be patient my 5 year old son was also difficult took forever to potty train him an he still has accidents

Bribery! We had the same problem with our granddaughter. We got a “treasure box” anytime she used the potty correctly, she got a treasure. She loved ittttt!

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Little girls have to be taught to sit P. I left my daughter on her potty chair all day until she would P. She was stubborn but eventually she Peed in the potty . They are used to standing to P. So you have to teach him it’s OK to sit down and do it.

I would take a weekend and block it off to where she has to stay in the living room or just one room, let her run around without any pants or underwear and watch her when she looks like she’s got to pee put her on the potty if she pees on herself make her sit on the potty and have a timer like every 15 mins or so make her sit on the potty for a little bit.

My little boy is 4 and will not do a poo in the toilet at all will pee in it but poops nope and now like he has an obsession with pull ups making sure there in the house for when he needs to go and will hold it for days if I don’t put one on him or poo his boxers any tips also welcome :pray: x

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My twins are 3 1/2 also. My daughter got it right away but my son is also doing the things you describe that your little girl is doing. We’ve fine everything exactly the same for both and it doesn’t work for him. We were told by the pediatrician that he’s probably just not ready. So we’re going to give it another month and then try again.

Google the 3 day method. I used it with my daughter when she was 3. No pants for the first 2 days and reward every time she successfully went.

I got a little training potty and put it in the living room and kept my kiddos naked from the waist down. Every 20 minutes or so I would ask if they needed to go potty and direct them to the little toilet and show them they could go there. And if an accident occurred I would direct them to the training potty and ask then if they were comfortable trying to go on it instead of in their pants. Sometimes a big potty is intimidating for kiddos, so having a small one that’s easier for them to get on/off helped a lot for my kids

We did naked training and then with loose shorts.
Try making them at least sit on the potty every 15-30 mins until they go.
Also, we go before we leave, after we get to our destination, every 30 mins while there, and before we leave.

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Following this because I have the same issue with my daughter! My son was self taught before a year old my daughter absolutely despised the potty !

I got my wee girl this and told her if she started using the big girl toilet all the time and didn’t have any accidents she could pick a special present and that worked for us… worth a try…Fineway Baby Potty Training… Amazon.co.uk

In my psych course they emphasize positive reinforcement and modeling the desired behavior. I gave stickers or a Tootsie roll when my son would go and no accident for the entire day he’d get a potty prize (trinkets from the dollar tree) Also whenever I would go to the bathroom I would make sure he went too.

My 4 year old was the same way. We ended up doing a reward system. Wrapped up dollar store toys… and put them in a bag if she went she got one… Became a game for her for a bit… but she did it! When we felt she didn’t need to get a reward for it… I just told her this was the last week… Big girls don’t get presents everytime they go to the bathroom… she seemed okay with that

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I had five kids, never potty trained them, didn’t even try. The girls self trained around 2 1/2 but the boys were well over 3 years. All went to kindergarten knowing how to use a toilet.

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I always took my kids to the bathroom with me and had them sit on there toilet and if they did go I would give a treat that they can only get while using the toilet ,it helps I always have to go lol :laughing:

Mine refused with treats and everything I finally told her she wasn’t getting anymore pullups and she finally stopped peeing and pooping on herself.

My daughter just followed me to the restroom all the time and started potty training herself just glad i got the training potty when she started walking @ 8 months old.

When she pees in her panties, do not change them . Wearing th3 wet ones will not feel good at all. Also. Make her clean it up where ever she owes.

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Take her to Creche, she will train well when she sees other kids.

Let her spend a weekend at home with nothing on. She will have no choice but to use the toilet :sweat_smile:

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Ya might wanna try this idea, just taking her potty just for the heck of it. Sometimes just the hentaintion? (Not sure if I spelled that right) will do it.

She might also be afraid of the big potty (keep in mind, it’s a ‘big’ hole there). If that’s the case… offer to hold onto her while she pees

Have you tried letting her roam naked? Sometimes kids confuse the underwear for diapers

Just have her go every 30 mins, you go then & show her how then say your turn!! & she will get the hang of it :heart:

Put them on the potty and turn on the water in the sink in no time they will pee

I bribed… marshmallow or m&m each pee. A cupcake for poop. We didn’t use a potty chair. Only the toilet with a seat on it. She also got a sticker each time she went. Took about 2 weeks.

Give her a book while she’s on the potty

We had success with The Potty Watch

Download the pottywhiz it keeps track on her thats what helped me plus run water when thier on the toilet

Kids don’t have that control just because you ask. You have to sit her on the toilet repeatedly. I use to give my daughter something to drink and then sit her on the toilet about 15 minutes after she finished drinking. Using a kitchen timer. As soon as she wakes up, put her on the potty. About 30 minutes after she eats, put her on the potty. Eventually, you will both find your rhythm with it. I didn’t care for pull ups but to each their own. Also celebrate her accomplishments and don’t scold her for accidents.

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Silk, they feel bad when wet

Make her stay naked and take her in every hour for at least ten minutes sitting there

Sounds like my 3 year old girl.

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110% recommend reading this book. We had our little girl potty trained before she was two, and in a little over a week :+1:t4: Good luck, it’s tough but worth it for the both of you.

I let my boys run around naked all day in a closed off room with a little potty

Hi, I bought a toddler toilet and just gradually introduced my daughter by putting underwear on her and showing her how to pull them down sit on the toilet then pull her panties back up. I just explained to her when she had to pee To go on her toilet. Eventually she would pull her pamper off and go on her toilet. Every child is different but have patience and just keep trying. Good luck mom!

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Take her to the store and buy the princess underwear that she likes on tv or videos. For some reason they think they are peeing on their friends. Putting her in training underwear is the thickness of a diaper. For the bed at night open up a black trash bag and spread it across where her body lays take a sheet and fold it in half the long ways and put over the black bag. If she potties your don’t have to change the whole bed. They never see anyone use a little potty chair so if you haven’t already started don’t start. Summer is the best time as you can keep her in a dress or shorts. She is also old enough to pull up her own panties. If you only keep her in the panties day and night she will be trained in a couple of days. Tell her if she potties in the big girl potty she can call daddy or grandma, etc. clap your hands when she goes. Blessings to you and your little girl.

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We kept what was called the yum yum jar in the bathroom, a chocolate m&m when they went , always worked and potty trained 5 before two

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I just put my daughter in a dress during the day and left her naked underneath. I put the potty chair wherever we were at for the first few days, and then I moved it closer to the bathroom. Until finally it was in the bathroom and she would just go when I go. My boy is three and still isnt potty trained. He has been a nightmare lol

We are doing know with my boy it’s 2.1/2. We were trying from 2 and it’s wasn’t ready now it’s been 3 weeks that it’s him asking for the potty :partying_face::partying_face::partying_face: need lots of patience

I tried to start my baby girl I’ll party when she was 3 and she didn’t want to go she did what she wanted but when she wanted to go she went so don’t force her when she wants to go she will go

It is not what the child wants it’s what their bodies tell them.

I trained both my daughter at 18months. When at home they wore Disney panties (for inspiration). I’d take them to potty first thing in the morning, last thing at night, anytime after eating or drinking. They didn’t like feeling wet, caught on quickly.

My girls were far easier than my boys. My one girl I had her trained before 2 yrs old then on her second birthday she was off pampers, I took her as soon as we woke up, within ten minutes of waking up, then she would have to stay there until she went potty. She was also ran to hide to poop so that also made it easier. I had one daughter born with spina bifida however she looked like a normal girl, she could walk, talk, run, it didn’t affect her cognition, it only ruined her bladder and bowels. So when I tried to potty train her, she had no clue when she would pee, she would only hear it as it hit the floor. I also didn’t know she has spina bifida until she was 4 yrs old, but once I seen the issue of not feeling the sensation of urination, I took her to see a urologist. Every child is different, they all potty trained at different ages, mine were 2, 3, 4, and one had to learn how to go with devices. I have a baby son that will be 3 next month but he is no where near potty training yet. Practice, practice, practice is all I recommend! Good luck mama! You got this and don’t stress over it too much, it will come!!

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Don’t force her, she will only hold it in, and may possibly end up with constipation too. She may not be ready.

Children learn by what they see. Let her watch everyone else use the toilet, talk about what you are doing, wash your hands, she will want to join in at the sink, she will see this as a ‘reward’ to yourself. Young children love sensory experiences.

Have a family reward chart, a poster with pictures of everyone who uses the toilet. Reward each with person with a sticker, put it on the poster. This puts the focus on everyone else, no pressure on her.

If she has lots of accidents, clean it up, don’t make a issue. She may not ge ready. Do it when you have no time constraints.

All the best x

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i told my daughter … who insisted she was a “big girl”… that big girls dont wear pullups/diapers… they are for babies… and it worked, just like when it was time to take the bottle away i told her bottles were for babies… and she tossed it in garbage herself… but ALL kids are different… they do it when they are ready to do it… good luck!!

Get a chart from Dollar store and some fancy colorfull stickers .put your name on it and her name .when you go pee you put sticker by your name .when she goes pee she earns one .praise her when she does go pee

Tell her that princess don’t pee in their undies

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Maybe don’t ask if she has to go? Just say “it’s time to try to potty” and stick her on the toilet, every hour. No drinks a hour or two before bed either.

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Sometimes their little bodies don’t compute the signal of a full bladder, if that’s not the case, what worked for me, was making them wash out their dirty panties in the commode, my children would be too busy playing to stop for pottie break, even though they had been taught better, this method stopped that in one day… little tough love works.

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I took my daughter shopping to pick out her own package of undies. I told her if she peed in them SHE had to throw that pair away. After the second time of having to put poor Dora in the trash, no more accidents!

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Make it fun! … Buy the Cereal Froot Loops, choose one color and about 2 Cheerios of the cereal drop it in her potty training toilet. Tell your babygirl that if she potty’s in it, it will change colors.

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Figure out what is her most valuable reward and withhold this reward completely, i.e. she must not get it at ANY other time. She must only get a small portion of the reward when she uses the potty successfully. After a while, change the reward.

I potty trained my girls by putting food coloring in the toilet, and when they would pee the water would change color. They loved it. And made it fun. They wanted to make magic in the toilet.

I was a single mom trying to potty train my son also, so I used food coloring for him also… but would put fruit loops in the toilet and told him to hit them…

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As soon as my girls woke up i took of their pampers and put them on the toilet and during the day every 1/2 hr without asking.

The only way that works: EVERY 20 mins she needs to sit on the potty no matter what, until she finally gets it. Its all about repetition

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Don’t buy her anything ,make her earn it , when she ask for something, you tell her, you have to earn it , so when you start telling me you need to sit in the potty, you will get a reward and or buy you what you want. You have to stick to your program though. Just FYI. Good Luck :+1::heart: she is old enough to know , she is a smart lil girl.

Have you had a new baby? My 3 year old was potty trained. She knows when she needs toilet, can use a toilet and wipe and hand wash BUT her baby sister was born a few months before she turned 3 and she reverted :sob: now she begs for a nappy, will not often use the toilet and of I refuse a nappy she will wet herself. Health visitor said its quite common as she’s no longer the baby. Tried rewarding her for using big girl pants etc. Not forcing it at the minute and she’s generally acting out. I know she’s capable, just doesn’t want to be a big girl just yet

My daughter is 2 going on 3 she is full potty trained during the day but at night I am still struggling how do I go about it at night any advise please🙏

P.s sorry for hijacking this post :heart:

I work in daycare :heart: and I normally potty train the whole class (as a group) together.

Some things I do:
#1 SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SCHEDULE
They go at the same times everyday. (excluding the ones who are ready trained and need to go in between) get you a schedule.

I sit them down in a group and one by one they all sit on the potty. Even if they don’t have to go. Every hour-2 (I think it’s okay if they refuse to sit. Sometimes it’s scary that’s okay. Once they see everyone else’s treats they normally choose to sit on their own) if it’s just you guys you can give yourself a sticker and/or treat. When she asks for me you can say “I’m sorry but you chose not to sit, you don’t get a sticker now, but you can try again in an hour for one. Mommy sat so mommy gets a sticker”

If they sit: they get a sticker(even if they don’t go)

If they pee: they get two small M&Ms and a sticker(don’t worry all the parents know) and I do a little excited dance for them!

If they poop: :poop: I jump up and down excited, high five them, give them a sticker, a Hershey drop candy, and I make sure to say it aloud “wow ____ pooped today in the potty all by themselves guys!!! That’s amazing!!!”

I’ve gotten 10-15 kids in a class and potty trained over half in less than three months. Granted it does help to have peers, but you got this mama!

My daughter potty trained at the age of 2. Once she turned 1 would put her on the potty more and more each day then I fully took her diapers away and I let her pee her pants a few times she didnt like that at all so she would point at her little potty and I would put her on it. She stared to fully go potty by her self i even took her diapers away at night and she stopped at 2 and is fully potty trained night and day and had only 2 accidents since now shes 4 and that doesnt even cross my mind anymore. Just let her pee her pants a few times she won’t like sitting in it and tell her big girls go on the potty. Even take her in when you go to show her how it works!!

Maybe she’s not ready … When she’s ready she will start using the toilet…

Don’t push her. Sometimes when you push them to try and use the potty, it ends up prolonging the inevitable. Some kids need to come to terms with using the potty in their own time. The more you push, the more it stops them from using the potty. When she is ready, she will use the potty. Don’t punish her for not using the potty either.

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My daughter is 3 as well and being stubborn bout the potty training. I’ve been showing how disappointed and sad it makes me when she doesn’t use the potty and how happy it makes it me when she does. Plus a treat it reward most times. I’m a single dad and get told to whoop her. But she my baby and can’t give spanking. Plus I noticed when she goes to her mom’s she comes back with anxiety bout using the toilet. Scared to tell me she had accident and when she does says “please don’t spank me” so I know spanking doesn’t help it makes it harder.

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Take her to the toilet in every 20 minutes and let her sit there for a minute or 2. I know it’s tiring but it works. I did mine like that and in 3 days it was a different story. Good luck

Naked training. Sometimes the underwear feels like a diaper so they still pee in them.

Potty chair in main area that she’s always in. Once they begin to use it inch it towards the bathroom without them noticing.

Rewards. Sticker chart. Candy. Toys. I’ve seen finger nail polish as well. One nail per use of potty. Solid pee. Glitter poo.

My son was 2.5 and I let him be fully naked anytime we were home then put him in a diaper or a pull up overnight. One morning he woke up dry so that day we started to potty train. It took him 2.5 weeks to be fully trained. I just waited for him to be ready.

We did a sticker chart w/ rewards. My daughter loved it!!