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Toddlers: 24 Months+
candr09
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Another PT question
candr09
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I know the board is full of potty training questions, but I have another one.
DD is just about 27 months and I honestly don't know of she is ready or not. I read a "potty training readiness check list" and she does meet most of the signs. We've had a potty out for a while and she's just been kind of exploring it and playing with it but that's it.
Last week she came up to me and said "mommy potty" and walked to the bathroom, I took her pants and diaper off and she sat down and peed on the potty. I was in complete shock because it really came out of nowhere completely on her own.
She went again that night before bed and has went a few other times, but all with me asking her to go, never again with her just telling me on her own. And with exception if that first time, it's been a half hour even every time with her spending most of that half hour dancing around the bathroom naked and starting to pee on the floor when I grab her and sit her down on the potty. She doesn't seem to like it and always makes a sad face when I sit her on there while she's peeing, but she'll sit on there and read books just fine. She does get really happy and excited after the fact when we dance and cheer and she gets a sticker to put on her potty chart.
So I'm just not sure. She is sending me mixed signals. It's also hard because I have a 7 week old, so it's not like I have all day to sit in the bathroom with her if she "might" have to go. Most of the time when I ask her she says no, but she's in that stage where no is her answer to everything... She'll say no then run to the bathroom anyway. I don't want to discourage her, but I don't want to force her.
Any insight or suggestions is greatly appreciated.
DD is just about 27 months and I honestly don't know of she is ready or not. I read a "potty training readiness check list" and she does meet most of the signs. We've had a potty out for a while and she's just been kind of exploring it and playing with it but that's it.
Last week she came up to me and said "mommy potty" and walked to the bathroom, I took her pants and diaper off and she sat down and peed on the potty. I was in complete shock because it really came out of nowhere completely on her own.
She went again that night before bed and has went a few other times, but all with me asking her to go, never again with her just telling me on her own. And with exception if that first time, it's been a half hour even every time with her spending most of that half hour dancing around the bathroom naked and starting to pee on the floor when I grab her and sit her down on the potty. She doesn't seem to like it and always makes a sad face when I sit her on there while she's peeing, but she'll sit on there and read books just fine. She does get really happy and excited after the fact when we dance and cheer and she gets a sticker to put on her potty chart.
So I'm just not sure. She is sending me mixed signals. It's also hard because I have a 7 week old, so it's not like I have all day to sit in the bathroom with her if she "might" have to go. Most of the time when I ask her she says no, but she's in that stage where no is her answer to everything... She'll say no then run to the bathroom anyway. I don't want to discourage her, but I don't want to force her.
Any insight or suggestions is greatly appreciated.
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Re: Another PT question
it sounds like she's ready to me - my dd didn't have any more ready signs than that when I PTed her
YOU have to be ready for it though too, as it takes a few weeks and a lot of patience
I agree with the pp that I wouldn't bother bringing her to the potty all the time - better to teach her to tell YOU when she has to go. Put her in undies, and let her learn what it feels like to have to go - remind her to tell you if she has to go, and if you see her starting to have an accident, run her to the bathroom so she can finish on the potty. Lori Jensen's 3 day potty training e-book explains it really well (although I don't buy the whole '3' day' thing, it took us longer than that, but I did use her methods to teach dd that it's her responsibility to tell me when she has to go - that I'm not going to constantly remind her.......)