Potty training vent

[sunflwrmoonbeam]

I'm trying to potty train my 25 month old, and am SO frustrated with it. She's ready. She is so ready. She has ALL the signs of readiness, and i'm knocked up so I'm super motivated to get this done. Today we're staying home all day to do intensive potty training. I've been setting an alarm to go to the potty ever 15 minutes and giving her a sticker for doing so. And this is working really well, except the only time she goes is when I can't do that.

Woke up pretty dry, sat on potty. Nothing. Peed while I was eating breakfast.

Dry all morning, on the potty every 15 minutes, even dry during a long stroller ride. Pees and poops in her diaper while I'm finishing eating lunch.

Potty right before nap, put her in her diaper, wake up, give her 5 minutes to wake up and then put her on the potty. Peed in those 5 minutes.

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I'm spending all day doing this and the timing isn't working out! I believe once we get a "catch" or two she'll make the connection and we can really get this thing going. But my timing is just sucking, even when I'm devoting the entire day to it! And now I want to scream!!!!

Please tell me my luck will turn around?

[BellyBean]

Sounds like a "normal" first day to me!  I thought I was going to loose my mind!  It gets better towards the end of day 2 :)  Keep up the good work mama!

We started our training with a naked bum all the time except sleeping (I can't tell from the above if she is wearing diapers during the day).  You get more messes on the floor which is frustrating at first, but when they see pee coming out I think the connection comes way quicker!  If you can spend time outside with the potty, the hose makes clean up easier :)

Good Luck!

[Dazedstella]

I just wanted to throw out there that I found it didn't help to have a diaper on instead of naked/undies. DD started potty-training on her own but wouldn't tell me/go on the potty if she had a diaper on because whats the point. She peed on herself/furniture/floor once or twice but it worked like magic and she tells me Every.Single.Time now without fail with no bribing or shaming.

I let her go naked, told her if she need to pee to sit on the potty, left the potty in the downstairs and went about our business. When she peed the first time we had a PARTY (i.e. singing, dancing, clapping, calling nana &papa to tell them etc) and kept that up the next few times. When she peed on the floor or herself I just explained that it was no big deal but next time to try and pee on the potty. She hated peeing on herself or the floor so it worked pretty quickly. I went out and bought her cool big girl undies after a day or two of successful naked peeing and she has been potty-trained ever since. One good recommendation I got for going out and about though is a potette, I just ordered one, should come tomorrow and I am super excited!

[lifeguard]

I agree with pp that letting her go naked or with undies might speed up the process. It does mean contending with accidents & messes though. Personally we went to underwear 'cause I didn't want to have to work through the steps of being pl naked but not with underwear.

I'm not sure about the timer thing myself. The "method" we followed encouraged NOT asking them repeatedly if they need to go & not putting them on a really formal schedule. Instead it encouraged reminding the child very frequently to tell you when they need to pee "remember to tell mommy when you need to pee". For accidents we immediately brought him to the toilet & had him sit on it & reminded him that we pee/poop on the toilet. I liked that it put the responsibility on the child in a way - told him clearly that I trusted him to know when he needed to go & trusted him to tell me & it wasn't me pushing my own agenda.

For times like first thing in the morning/after nap/before we left the house I would say let's give the toilet a try, just in case but if he really didn't want to I didn't push it - again trying to trust that he knew his own body.

FWIW - we had a lot of accidents those first few days but by the end of the first week he was pretty reliable.

[Bokonon]

Honestly, at 25 months she may not even be physically mature enough to know when she needs to go BEFORE it happens.  This happens for different kids at a huge range of ages.

Try not to get frustrated - even under the best of conditions, it rarely happens in just one day!