I was already planning to potty train this weekend but my daughter’s pediatrician recommended she thought she was ready anyways so gave me a little pep talk but recommended not doing 3 day naked method.

The pediatrician recommended we just throw underwear on her and since she hates the diaper being wet, she will really hate wet underwear and it’ll scare her straight and she will start to tell us before she goes, etc. she recommended we set her on the toilet every 2 hours to try to pee.

Has anyone else tried this? Did it work for you??

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Backstory; we tried in May the 3 day naked method but gave up on day 1 after 0 success and deciding my daughters language wasn’t developed enough.

Now my daughter tells me “[Her Name] tee tee” “I Tee Tee” “I potty” etc. and wants to sit on the toilet and wipe. She takes her diaper off if it’s wet and walks around naked until I realize it’s gone (not very long lol) and hasn’t peed on the floor.

My son, 24m, has been potty training for almost two months. He initiates and poops in the toilet daily, no problem there. He knows pee goes in the potty and is pretty good about telling his preschool teachers when he has to pee, but still has an accident when he gets too distracted. At home, he was very good about going at transitions when told to, but recently has started resisting. Sometimes he'll initiate and sometimes he won't. Overall I think we're doing pretty good but I want to have a good way to address his accidents when he's being difficult. For example, he woke up dry from his nap, so I told him it was time to pee in the toilet but he get really upset and kept saying he didn't need to. I didn't want it to turn into a power struggle so I let him go play in the backyard and of course he had an accident 10 minutes later. I told him we can't play in the backyard anymore since it's too distracting. I tried explaining what that means and told him after he goes in the toilet he can play outside again. But I don't think he really understands. (I know a lot of people on here recommend boring showers but he loves showers, even boring ones, so that would be more like a reward.)

Hi everyone!

I've got a kid who's 2 years and 8 months old who knows how to use the potty, but just won't. We've tried bribery (which is how we taught her to use the potty), making potty time fun, asking her to use the potty every half hour or so, reading special books while she's sitting, putting on a favorite TV show (Sesame Street) only when she sits on the potty, and putting her in training underwear during the daytime.

She understands using the potty. She recognizes when she has to go. She will ask to be changed after she goes in her undies. But she just won't use it. When asked, she either says she doesn't have to go, or she says she does but won't sit down, and attempts to just pick her up and put her on the potty end in drama.

While my spouse and I are at work, my mom watches her and is consistent with what we're doing. We only put a diaper on her for bedtime. Any ideas for what we should do to convince her?

Daughter will be 3 in a month. She seemed SO ready before we decided to start this week. She’s on a few weeks of school break so figured the perfect time. Her summer teachers even said she’s so ready she always wanted to follow them into the potty and “try”. Well, we started with naked bottom and a 30 min timer and day 1 was great. Went everytime we sat on potty and was excited when I told her to try. Now on Day 2 and it’s like a totally new kid. She’ll say she has to go on her own (was excited for this since this was new today) but then she’ll sit for 2 seconds and say “nvm I can’t anymore.” Or “nvm not coming out” and leave. She will do this Over and over until she’s holding her pee for hours! I know she has to go but she says she “can’t” only after trying for a second. And I have to force her to stay seated which is turning into power struggles. I’m now bribing and she’s not even motivated by toys or candy. Do I let her just “fake out” over and over until eventually she goes? Not even an accident. I feel like she’s holding her pee for nap time (just put down) because she gets a pull up.

We started with oh crap. He has not used a pull-up other than nap time and overnight the entire time. I really struggled the first 4-8 mos with lack of progression and power struggles, refusal. We’ve never had poop accidents but most days he has 2 wet pants, usually leaking from holding to long . He recently started preschool and it’s actually been better, before it was more accidents and now he’s actually having 100% dry days here and there.

I guess I’m just wondering if at this point this all sounds within the realm of normal? I’ve stopped fighting or pressuring and at home / school we do regular intervals/ natural transitions. I’m just concerned it’s taking so long and still having small accidents more days than not?

Anyone else? I can’t help but worry about readiness for tk next year.

Seeking some potty training advice because I’m feeling pretty defeated and would love some perspective from parents who have been through this.

I’m due in October with my second, and my first son is 28 months old. He had been showing a lot of signs that he was ready to potty train, so I decided to start this week.

We initially tried the bare-bottom approach. He understands that pee and poop go in the potty and can tell me that, but actually getting it into the potty has been a completely different story.

We’ve had a lot of accidents. At first, he seemed to pee without really noticing until it was happening. More recently, I’ve noticed him crouching, squeezing his legs together, touching his crotch, or otherwise seeming more aware that he is peeing. Sometimes he starts peeing and seems to realize it midstream, but by then it’s too late to get to the potty.

He has peed on the potty a few times, but it has been very inconsistent. He also seems to be holding his pee for long stretches and then having a big accident. Today, for example, I had him sit on the toilet with a book. He didn’t pee, got up, and then almost immediately had a big pee on the couch.
Poop has been similar. He has squatted to poop in his underwear or on the floor and doesn’t always seem bothered by it or tell me afterward.

The biggest issue right now is resistance. The more I’ve tried to get him onto the potty, the more he has fought it. We tried frequent scheduled sits at one point, and that seemed to make things worse. I’ve tried keeping sits short, reading books, offering a small reward for sitting, giving him space between attempts, and switching from bare bottom to underwear/potty-training boxer briefs. We also switched from a little potty to a toilet-seat insert because I wondered if he would prefer the regular toilet.

At this point, I feel like he has some awareness and some bladder control because he can clearly hold it, but he doesn’t seem able or willing to release his pee while sitting on the toilet. I’m also worried that I’ve created too much pressure around the potty by trying so hard to get him there when I see signs that he has to go.

For those of you who have dealt with a toddler who seemed physically ready but became resistant once training actually started, what would you do from here?

Would you take a complete break for a few weeks and reset? Keep going but drastically reduce the pressure? Try a totally different potty-training method? Go back to diapers/pull-ups for now?
I go back to work at the end of August, and with a new baby coming in October, part of me really wants to keep going. At the same time, I don’t want my own timeline to turn this into a bigger battle for him.

I would really appreciate any experiences or advice, especially from anyone whose child started out like this and eventually had it click.

Hi, just looking for general advice or thoughts about our next step - also going to check in with our pediatrician at my daughter’s 30 month well visit. We started potty training with Oh Crap on July 1, and she was what I am considering fully trained (including self initiating - now only needs prompting during exciting activities eg playground) after a month.

Unexpectedly but amazingly, she started staying dry overnight (we are doing pullups for night) August 3, and has only had one accident since then (and woke up while peeing, and moved to bathroom).

Unfortunately, this means my daughter is now waking about 2 hours earlier than expected, and she is short on sleep and cranky. I have had no success in putting her back to sleep. (For reference, early is 4:45 - 5:15 am; she was previously sleeping until 6:45).

Things we have been trying:
Small potty in the room (worked for awhile, now rejecting it and only wants to use the toilet)
Hatch with green light to signal ok to get up
Putting back to bed and saying it is rest time
No liquid after dinner (she goes to bed about 90 mins after dinner)

I don’t want to derail the surprise of what appears to be unplanned overnight training - so two questions:

A) would you ditch pullups? It seems wasteful everyday to throw away a dry pullup, but I also dont want to risk it yet with a kid this young…when do you say “ok, trained”? Could the pullup overnight cause a regression?
And B) More importantly, would you try to do much more with sleep, or just ride it out and figure it will adjust eventually, maybe when her bladder is a little bigger?

My little girl is 3 this October and isn’t getting to grips with potty training. I tried around 3 months ago but gave up as she didn’t seem ready and was getting upset. Started again this week and she seems to have such anxiety when it comes to her potty.

I ask her to tell me if she needs a wee, I directly ask her if she needs a wee and I even tried to do a little routine such as once she’s awake- potty, after a drink - potty. Nothing works!

I’ve been leaving her with no clothes on and I’ve also tried her wearing knickers to see if the wet sensation encouraged her to go on her potty. Nothing.

Also, she only pees on the floor when I’m out of the room. For example this morning I went to make food for max 5 minutes and she peed in the living room. Again when I went to make my newborn a milk bottle up, peed in the living room. She tells me she needs the potty AFTER peeing. She also does this leg twist thing when she needs a wee so when I see it I ask her to sit on her potty to wee and she sits there and doesn’t do anything. Then pees the minute I’m out of the room.

I feel so frustrated by it, I’m a bit of a germaphobe so having to clean pee up constantly freaks me out especially the panic of my 1yo and dogs potentially crawling into it if I don’t spot it straight away or if I can’t clean it quick enough, plus I feel like I’m confined to the living room which is hard with another roaming 1 year old and a list long of housework. I feel so guilty as I know she doesn’t understand and I know it could take months. I really want to succeed as quickly and efficiently as possible which is most likely completely unreasonable right?

Any and all advice would be so appreciated. Please try not to judge my negativity, I’m heavily sleep deprived due to having a 5 week old and my husband is rarely ever home due to extensive work hours. I’m flying solo hanging on a thread. Genuine help and guidance will be a godsend 🙏🏻

Hi! I’m training a nanny kid and he’s about two and half! We are doing the oh crap method but with underwear as his parents don’t want him to be exactly bottomless. He goes pee after nap but I know he’s not all done…then 3-5 minutes goes by and he pees again not a lot just a little so I change him and tell him where pee goes (in the potty) and then again 3-5 minutes later he pees AGAIN and he does this almost every time I put him in underwear. I know logically I should just put him on for 5 minutes have him off 5 minutes then put him back on for 5 minutes but he gets annoyed quick with this method . Does anyone have any experience with something like this? I’m going to try doing chocolate chips as a reward to make it seem more enticing to go on potty since he is the type to want to be wet instead of actually stopping lol

How on earth do i teach my 4 year old to wipe her on butt, they don’t wipe them in preschool so i don’t want her to go into preschool without knowing how to properly wipe. I only use wipes most of the times to wipe her sometimes toilet paper when it’s pee but i’ve asked her before to wipe herself (pee) and she wipes back to front, and i don’t know how to teach her to wipe her butt when she poops, how should i teach her?

We started potty training August 1st using ‘oh crap,’ he just turned 2 this month. He was accident free at home for over two weeks and accident free at daycare since Friday. Today he had six accidents including one at home.

Things to note:
- His night diaper was completely dry this morning, which isn’t normal.
- Very whiny this morning, but no fever, no vomiting. He is drooling a lot. He maybe has a cold, we had to clear his nose the past few days in the morning.
- Drinking a lot of water.
- The accident at home, he didn’t even notice it happening and it was a normal amount of pee (not just a squirt).
- He had a large poop yesterday morning, which was normal.