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How exactly did you potty traing your child..what age..give details on methods u’ve used…
My daughter is 2.5 yrs old…i wanna get her out of diapers before my second baby arrives ( end of july)..
I’ve tried taking her to the toilet frequently but she will sit there for half an hour and not do anything..the minute she gets up she will pee/poo somewhere else…im soo tired of cleaning up after her…crying..there MUSt be another way!!

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thats disgusting..thank god women folk take care of this kinda stuff..

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Jaz the most success comes when THEY are ready. It doesnt matter how ready WE are lol! My eldest was 5 whn he was fully potty trained. And the younger 2 followed right along so that I was DONE with diapers all at the same time more or less. Each child is different and each child is potty trained when they're ready for it so forcing the issue only causes stress for everyone concerned! Try sitting her on the potty once or twice a day but dont push the issue or make it a stressful time for her. She'll get the idea eventually. If you wait till she's really ready for it, it will happen so very easily that you'll end up kicking yourself for suffering thru all the needless stress. Good luck!

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emm i dont have ne kids yet, but i have heard that it is easier to potty train in the summer time, i saw my sis go thru potty training her kids.
Ease her into it, try to tell her that the shes becoming a big girl and all big girls use the potty, engage her in an activity to do with using the potty, such as offering her a treat for every time she tells you she needs to use the potty, such as a bit of candy or alternatively, you could take her to the potty every hour or so, she will eventually know what to do :)

i hope that helped... this is what my sis did, she has a son who is extrememly naughty, but she managed to bribe him to use the potty lolzzzz

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what a typical mans answer! im guessing ure not married then...

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mine is only 9month old.. and i m already thinking about to have him on potty few times a day now... is it too early to start?

and 'good' husbands usually do help their wives too in this kinda stuff.

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^ Its too early for your baby, mine is 2 years old, right now I have started to trained her but she sits there making bubbles but I didn't get any result, hoping good in future, I will get the result.

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I am not the mommy but I want to invent a potty training device which can attach to a kids bottom and it will work as a chair and and a potty too.:D
My wife faced too much trouble to potty train our first born.
And ya I changed the diapers from time to time.

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I started the older one when she started telling me that her diaper was heavy with whatever. That was at 2.5 years. Then I started making her comfortable with the pot for a few weeks and eventually, I watched her when she was about to "go"...mommy's know from expressions and mannerisms of their children at that point, and I would rush her to the bathroom and make her sit. Put a stool under their feet because they don't know where to apply pressure when their feet are in mid air.

Once the potty is taken care of, the pee part comes naturally. It took a good month or two for perfection. Night time, I would still have her wear diapers until she was almost 4.

My younger one just turned 2, and she is ready as she comes and tell me when she is experiencing symptoms if you know what I mean. I just started working on her!

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^ wow thats good Niksik. My daughter is 16 months, and she started telling me about a month ago whether she was doing her "nammy" or not.. maybe i should start her on it... actually im waiting for her to start childcare, it might be easier then

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My daughter is 2 and half and is fully potty trained. We bought a seat with stairs that she can adjust herself on the toilet seat and now when she has to go she can do it all on her own, I only go to clean her afterwards.

It started as she saw other older kids doing it in kindergarten and the care takers explained her that older kids do it here, so was ready, I stopped her diapers and they would sit her on the toilet, it took a week to get used to it, the first week i let her wear diapers during night time, but the second week, i told her now no more diapers, she didnt want to wear them anyway, at night I put a plastic sheet under the bedspread, once or twice she got wet, well i noticed and changed her and bedcovers as she sleeps next to me, i too got wet lol, she noticed that if she cannot control it, she will be wet and then i will have to change her, now she can control it till next morning, at weekends sometimes she gets up as we are still half sleep goes to the toilet, flushes, switches off the light, closes the door and comes back to bed herself.

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oh i forgat, do not forget to encourage kids when they successfully do their business, we have a ritual, like hurray, super, everytimes she does it... i hear a plop and then "super, hurra, i did it" with claps. :-D

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ok, this probably won't help you with your current child but maybe for the next one. i'm the eldest of a laaarge family so i've seen it all and helped with it!
my mum's method was this:
if your child has a regular routine of eating and sleeping, it will also poop at a regular time. so even when we were all tiiiiny little things, when it was coming to poopie time, she would sit us on the toilet seat (with a baby toiler seat on top) and hold us there til we did the business. this meant that she rarely had to change a soiled nappy (apart from pee), unless you know, we were out or something. by doing this, we were all used to the toilet and doing the business in the toilet... which i think is something that kids find scary if they have always used a potty.
as the ladies above said, even before your child can tell you that they need the bathroom, they'll probably be making some faces when it was time so you can get them to the bathroom first. and then when they do start talking, you can get them to start telling you that they need to go.
obviously this made my mum's life a lot easier. all my younger siblings were in the pull-up nappy pants fairly young, which are good even if the child is potty trained in the case of any accidents. i can't really remember a specific potty training period for any of them. it was a process from when they were born until they stopped having accidents.

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My son was 2.5 when he started telling me after he was done doing it in his diaper. He hated being wet and stinky. I got the smaller toilet seat which you can put on top of the regular seat. let him use that for couple of days. I explained to him that he will be wearing shorts only so if he feels that he needs to go, he should let me know. Since It was summer, I let him run around in shorts only, no diaper( we have wood floors). First couple of times he did not tell and peed in his shorts, which he did not like. Then he started telling me at the last minute. I used diaper at night time only. 2nd day was better, only one accident and third day he was fully trained. I even could not believe it. I think I read this method on GS and it did work for me.

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Jaz

mamaof3 is right that you should not stress about it.

other things you can do:

Use towel nappies in the house.

Leave potty around somewhere, may be in a corner of living room....so she can use it whenever she wants to.

Buy a book for kids about potty training and read it with your kid and talk about it and about pictures in the story.

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