Balking at Potty Training

kimmyberly26 · February 2013

I know this was asked a few weeks ago too but has anyone started? DD has been showing signs of readiness and came down with a yeast infection so I took advantage of the situation since it was best for her to air dry and I had a long weekend. Shes been playing potty for over a month now and loving it. Now that we are doing hardcore potty training, shes balking. We are pretty sure its not the infection since shes not crying when she has an accident. She tells us she has to go about half the time and she does get excited about her treats when she has successes. Part of me thinks that maybe she just isnt ready and the other part thinks shes just balking because we are in control and not her. She will willingly go in and sit but just doesnt like to actually pee so we do our best to encourage her. We are on day 2. Anyone have a similar response and there kids came around in a few days? I'd hate to stop since we've made so much headway.

She has gone on the potty a few times on day 1 and 5 times today and a poop just because we caught her in time but we have to encourage her and hug her and she pee but she is upset to do it...until she get her treats of course.

sucredee · February 2013

I tried at 25 months because physically she was ready even though she had. I shown any interest in the potty otherwise. It was a big fail. None of the treats worked. I resorted to giving her an M&M just to sit on the potty and that was useless. She would sit for literally 5 seconds and be done only to pee all over the place 5 minutes later. I bailed because she was holding her poop and I didn't want her to get constipated. A month later she did it on her own. She literally went from full time diapers one day to full time panties the next with almost no accidents. But it was on her terms. My DD does not like to be told what to do and it absolutely had to be on her term. If it becomes a power struggle you will lose and she will win. Lt her run around naked but don't force her to sit on the potty or even mention the potty. I did that with DD and she would hold her pee until she had a diaper most of the time. A month after our fail we were on vacation and I had brought her travel potty just in case. One day I told her to either ask for a diaper if she had to pee or just use the potty and that was it.

Currently (6 months later) she is having more accidents than she did the first 4 months because she doesn't want to stop what she is doing . Most of these are at home. At school she will to use the bathroom when told but not at home. Most of the time they are not full on accidents but she gets her panties a little wet.

Try to give her control. She may not be quite ready. My DD was definitely physically ready (staying ry for longer periods of time and most nights) but mentally she just wasn't there. And then one day that was it, she was done with diapers. She did the same thing with walking. She never took a step alone until she was ready to go for it 100% and then she went from crawling to full time walking within a week.

Some kids are fine with being told to sit on the potty and others aren't. Sounds like yours is one of the latter. Hang in there. It will happen soon enough.

kimmyberly26 · February 2013

I think today I'm going to give her more control and see what happens. Thanks for the input.

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