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Nwmr-potty training

MommyAttyMommyAtty member
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DD turned 2 in July. A few weeks ago, she really started being interested in using the potty. This past weekend, we had zero pee accidents, though she still won't poop in the potty. I figure she will get there. At Grandma's, she's also doing great. Very few accidents. But at school, DD absolutely refuses to use the potty. She will either wet her pants or hold it until she goes down for nap. Any ideas how to encourage her to go at school? She's only there MWF for about 5 hours. I'm just confused about how great she's doing other than at school.
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Re: Nwmr-potty training

  • bumpuser10331514bumpuser10331514 member
    I'm totally making stuff up here, b/c my DS is only just starting to vocalize an interest in the potty - but what about if you got her a super awesome special toy to keep at her DC, that she could only play with when she wants to go to the potty (or will get to play with after she goes to the potty)? She might fake out her DC person a couple times with going to the potty when she just wants the toy, but at least it gets her sweet bottom on the seat.
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  • mlee116mlee116 member
    DS took a little longer at school than he did at home.  Now when he does have the occasional accident, they are pretty much always at school.  Like PP said, I think there is much more going on at school than at home and he doesn't want to stop.  

    I just gave it time and sent plenty of extra training pants.  His teacher also started asking him more often if he needed to go or she'd make all the kids stop and do a potty break together.  I think seeing his buds go potty and not have accidents helped a lot.  
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  • 2chatter2chatter member
    I would talk with the teacher - schools PT my two youngest more than we did at home and even Sunday School is WAY on board with it.   
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  • dashofrealitydashofreality member

    If it makes you feel any better my kid was doing great at daycare and horrible at home for a few weeks - which made me feel like I was awesome at potty training. I might be in the minority, but I wouldn't push it. It probably took about a month for everything to click for my DD, her hang ups were poop and going on big scary public toilets.

    You know your kid, but if she is really fighting and holding/wetting at school, I would consider letting her wear pullups at school until she was comfortable. The all in method works for some, but it didn't work for us. We were probably 1 - 1.5 months total in training (pretty solid with pee after 2 weeks) but once it clicked she literally never had another accident. Well except we didn't do nap or night for awhile.

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  • Leap08Leap08 member
    I think you need to talk to school and make sure they are doing the same kind of things that you are doing at home. Our school was really fantastic about this and would do whatever we asked them to do. I even brought special reward treats and stickers from home for successful trips to the potty and they were fine with using them. 
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  • MommyAttyMommyAtty member
    Thanks, all. She is wearing pull-ups to school. And they set her on the potty every hour. I guess she's just not quite ready. We won't push it. I think it also may be that only one kid in her class is really trained. So no peer pressure yet!
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  • dashofrealitydashofreality member
    Oh I change my answer then. I'm assuming that you don't have her in pullups at home? I think pullup are useful in he beginning to learn how to pull pants down etc. But eventually you have to go all in. I actually left a daycare because she insisted that kids be dry in pullup for 2 weeks before undies. There was no way my DD would've trained when she did in pullups. Obviously it isn't fair to have Dcp cleaning multiple accidents a day but at some point you have to try.

    Since she is resisting I would also ask DCP to try having her ask when she needs to go instead of the arbitrary 1 hour. My DD finally trained when we told her it was up to her and stopped asking her. We were driving her crazy and she was resisting the control. Hang in there it sounds like she can do this.
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  • MommyAttyMommyAtty member
    Yeah, I think the pull ups are confusing her. But I'm not sure she's really ready to go all in when she's away from home. Sigh. Also, she's somewhat reserved at school, so I'm wondering if the attention is embarrassing her. This potty training stuff is hard! Appreciate all the input, and hats off to all of you who've managed to get out the other side!
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