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I am soooo absolutely frustrated....... (VENT Long)

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Ladies I just dont know what to do anymore, I hate this feeling of believing that my child is  absolutely ready to be potty trained but we are just getting no where. My daughter will be three in two months and shows every sign of being ready but yet she just wont go on the potty. She has known what poop and what is pee since she was one. She can pull up and down her pants for the last few months, she will come and get us when she has peed or pooped or wants her diaper changed for months now. I have tried every avenue from rewards to punishing( not proud of that just frustrated). I have backed off a couple of times and have revisted the issue and every time I come back to the potty thing I end up feeling absolutely defeated.

We attempted once again this weekend, she had her morning pee, which is basically because I sit her on the toilet as soon as she wakes up. We put her big girl panties on that I of course let her pick out what princess she wanted to wear, and then we began the discussing what was going to happen for the day. My daughter is quite verbal and has always been, so I asked her

Me: Marley where are we going to pee pee at today, Marley: The toilet, Me: what are you going to do if you have to pee pee, Marley: pee pee in the toilet

30 mins later after she peed on the floor and came and got me to tell me she peed on the floor, when asked where were you suppose to pee at, she tells me in the toilet. This exact cycle continued throughout the entire day ugggh!!!Ladies I am so sorry that this turned into a novel but I just feel like I have hit a wall and that my daughter will never be potty trained. Please someone tell me that my daughter is showing the signs and that she is ready but she is just rebelling agaisnt me, because right now I feel utterly defeated once again. 

Thanks if you made it all the way to the end.

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Re: I am soooo absolutely frustrated....... (VENT Long)

  • readyin07readyin07

    My DS literally potty trained this week at 3years, 1 1/2 months. He first peed on the toilet when he was just over 2 years old. Like your DD, he is very verbal, would ask to be changed, tell me when he'd gone AFTER he'd done it. But he peed and poo-ed in underwear or pull-ups like a diaper. I made him clean himself up, he couldn't have cared less.  He would pee when I put him on the potty, but never tell me so he was going constantly in between even in very short intervals.

    We have lots of carpet so I was super super resistant to naked training. Two weeks ago I finally bit the bullet and took his pants off. Literally that was all it took.The first day he was naked, he asked for a diaper, I told him we were trying something different and off to the potty he went. Anytime we were at home, he was naked and he never ever had an accident. AT ALL. When we were out that first week, I would put him in a pull-up but take him to the potty constantly to make sure he would be used to being dry. When we switched to underwear at home and for short outings, we had accidents a few times (omg in the grocery store literally two minutes after he'd already gone). Really maybe 3 days of that and he has had no accidents in a week. Funny thing, he had been waking up dry 2-3 times a week, but since we've gotten a handle on things in the daytime, he has woken up dry every morning for 7 days! And naps too! As you can see, I am a big fan of naked training! Maybe not for litter ones, but for kids close to 3 and up, they totally have the cognition to understand that something is not right when they feel like they have to go and there is nothing to "catch" it.

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