Anyone have a fake potty trainer?

[vmars]

Sits next to swizz.

[timorousbeastie]

I'm right there with you. DD has insisted she go potty multiple times every day for the past couple months. She has never once actually gone in the toilet.

I don't want to discourage her by not allowing her to try, but it's so annoying to constantly have to go through all the steps involved (because God forbid we skip wiping even though she didn't pee!).

[kategm]

This will sound weird, but my mom splashed a little water on her vagina to make it feel wet and hopefully stimulate pee. (She was the first one to take M to the potty because she cares and I don't.) Also drip the faucet a bit so she can hear water running.

[ktw]

Yes! And then I wonder, does this mean she's "ready" and I should push her to potty train because she has an interest in sitting there, or does the fact that she never actually does anything mean she's not ready?

[moopoint17]

Ds2 does this, but he's really just copying his brother. But I still go along with it in hopes that someday something will end up in the potty!

[kategm]

Mar 19, 2016 19:34:19 GMT -5 swizz said:

Mar 19, 2016 19:26:02 GMT -5 kategm said:

This will sound weird, but my mom splashed a little water on her vagina to make it feel wet and hopefully stimulate pee. (She was the first one to take M to the potty because she cares and I don't.) Also drip the faucet a bit so she can hear water running.

I thought about this! I did run the water once today in hopes it would help.

Once she gets it, run with it! I made the mistake of waiting a couple months until after the holidays were over and she fought me hard. Hopefully the excitement of success will be motivation.

[shelbyann]

The other day, DD insisted she needed to poop on the potty.

We went upstairs to her bathroom and she squatted next to her potty and shat on the floor.

[thebreakfastclub]

Half a can of Sprite got it started for us. He drank it so fast, he had to go soon after.

[hermione]

I can't even commiserate. Mine just says, "I never doing that," when asked if she'd like to try the potty.

[humpforfree]

Candy? Lane will go for his m&ms or tablet time. He just sits on there with his "laptop" and goes. Sometimes he sits so long I have to bribe him to get off. Lol

[littlepeanut]

When M & Ms stopped working, I started saying "oh my gosh! Is your pee (insert color here)?" And then he pees. WALLA

[countthestars]

Mar 19, 2016 20:50:10 GMT -5 hermione said:

I can't even commiserate. Mine just says, "I never doing that," when asked if she'd like to try the potty.

same here. Or she says "soon." Like this century soon??

[sent]

Our pedi said some kids can take closer to age 3 to even show interest. Yesterday I randomly sat DD on the potty while I was setting up her bath. I hadn't put her there for like 2 weeks. Suddenly she said "pee coming" so I turned off the bathroom fan to listen. Sure enough, the pee came. She also woke up with a dry diaper today so I sat her on the potty again and it happened. I've been giving her stickers.  Prior to this weekend, she would ask to sit on the potty on the weekends and act like she did something when really there was nothing. 

[biogirl21]

J doesn't do this with pee, but he will say he has to poop, sit and poop a little bit, say he's done then need to poop again 30 minutes later, rinse and repeat. Ugh, so annoying! Then when he's distracted playing, he'll do the rest in his diaper. I plan on 3 day method-ing him in about a month. I'm worried about losing my window, but don't have any time off to do it now! He's never peed on the potty.

[mandapanda18]

How about the kid that is potty trained as long as I don't put underwear or pants on him?!? Naked from the waist down, he goes potty on the toilet every time, underwear = pee/poop

[irish]

It could just be that she is becoming aware that she is peeing rather than that she is going to pee. If this is the case, the running water prob won't work because she has just done it in her diaper. Let her keep trying and eventually she/you will have success.

Dd2 will tell us that she needs to go to the toilet and will generally do a wee in it. Insists on going first thing in the morning and last thing at night. However, her pull up is wet so she is only telling us when it suits her. I haven't trained her yet (this weekend was pencilled in for it but i chickened out) but I will do it in a few weeks time. She's just short of 30months and is ready, we've just got stuff on over the next few weekends.

[mae141]

DD has started pooping on the potty at daycare every day, and she'll even pee sometimes. I asked her if she would go on the potty at home and she yelled, "NO! Nona's house!" Nona is our daycare lady. I have no idea what to do about that.

[kategm]

Mar 20, 2016 7:39:51 GMT -5 mae141 said:

DD has started pooping on the potty at daycare every day, and she'll even pee sometimes. I asked her if she would go on the potty at home and she yelled, "NO! Nona's house!" Nona is our daycare lady. I have no idea what to do about that.

I feel you there. DD is doing so well on the potty at daycare. At home? She fights me tooth and nail to not sit on it. Give it time, she's finally starting to ask to sit on it at home, 2 months later.

I have spent the last few months mentioning potties, asking if she needs to potty (answer is always no), and offering candy/m&ms/etc for potty (still no). I never push it, just move on. The last few days she's started asking to go.

[kdubs923]

Checking in - DS loves to ask to sit on the potty at the most inconvenient times (to stall bedtime, as we're walking out the door to leave the house, as I'm nursing DD) Only to... Not do anything. Not a fart.

It's difficult to pretend to be excited when I know nothing will happen and dinner is burning in the process.

I outright said no when he was stalling bedtime and then felt bad because I know I should encourage trying. But not when it's already 30 minutes past bedtime.

[cleosprite]

DS did this all. the. time. We finally did the three day method, and that was the only thing that made it click that he was suppose to pee while sitting on the potty. He just didn't understand before.

[kategm]

Mar 20, 2016 7:56:10 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

Checking in - DS loves to ask to sit on the potty at the most inconvenient times (to stall bedtime, as we're walking out the door to leave the house, as I'm nursing DD) Only to... Not do anything. Not a fart.

It's difficult to pretend to be excited when I know nothing will happen and dinner is burning in the process.

I outright said no when he was stalling bedtime and then felt bad because I know I should encourage trying. But not when it's already 30 minutes past bedtime.

Story of my life.

[chickadee77]

L likes to yell "poopy!" and "potty!" and so I ask, she says yes, we get to the bathroom and she instantly is, "No, no, no!" But, she does actually use the potty when she's ready. I feel like it's a control thing - she sees me drop everything when she says the magic words.

So far, my best results have been in asking to hold it for just a minute. Then I ask again about 30 seconds later, and usually get an honest response. This only works if she's in underwear, though. She'll just pee in her pull-up, so we rarely use those anymore.

[dizzycooks]

Same problem here. I struggle to be excited.

[dizzycooks]

Mar 20, 2016 15:03:28 GMT -5 swizz said:

Mar 20, 2016 14:59:06 GMT -5 dizzycooks said:

Same problem here. I struggle to be excited.

Last weekend it was exciting. This weekend, it's just a royal PITA.

We've been doing that dance since November. It's old. I am trying to tell myself that someday it will just click and we will be done. She runs naked for hours and then pees when I put a diaper on to go out. Totally ridiculous but with a nb I am not in the mood to play games out in public.

[ringstrue]

Could be that she sees "I potty" to mean "I sat on the potty". It's helpful if she can see others leavings in the potty so she gets that she needs to produce something. This works at daycare and also play groups. We also had that fisher price potty that senses the pee/poo and will sing a song when she does go- sorta like clicker training . It was nice for DD because she wanted privacy, but I could hear when she finished so I didn't leave her in there too long.

[Deleted]

My 3 year old DD is not fully potty trained, she has held out the longest of my kids so far. Her baby sister will be 2 in a month and is almost surpassing her but she really likes the sink so I suspect she wants to wash her hands