Potty training thoughts

[flowerchild]

Oh...we've only done the videos on the potty 3x in total!!! she gets very little tv here so I was hoping she would sit long enough to naturally pee. Definitely not a daily thing. Also, when she is on the potty I have started to completely leave the bathroom so she is alone (she stays on the potty but keeps singing and talking and counting and everything but stopping to pee)...I was hoping that my not being there took the distractions away...but it doesn't. I long ago got bored with reading to her on the potty. The few times she actually goes on the potty she's on her own now.

OK. I misread it then. Probably not an attention thing then.

In everyone's more expert experience here...would we be largely set back by stopping altogether and starting up again later? Like I mentioned everything is in place here except this one little bit. I suspect that bit is a developmental thing that will come with time...are we best to spend that time potty training or not??!!

She's only 24months, I don't much mind going back to diapers...I just don't want to be screwed in a few months because she is older and less cooperative and has learned she can go backwards!!

You know, I'm usually an advocate of "once you start, don't stop" for toilet training, BUT it's been two months of this and she still isn't able to go pee. I don't think you'll be messing anything up if you just wait for a few months and try again.

Or if you're worried that she won't pee in her diaper, maybe use pull ups? I think you said that she could pull them up and down on her own, so if you leave the potty out, she can go sit on it if she wants to but you also have the pull up on in case of accidents. In that case, I'd still stop asking her to sit on the potty or referencing it at all.

[Lee-Bee]

5LM...I will try a potty in the middle of our house today to see if that helps her. I'd been weary of moving it from the bathroom because my daughter is so big on doll play right now I have been really trying to enforce a "potty is not for dolls" rule but I am pretty sure having the potty out near the dolls will only encourage her! I do disinfect the potties after each use...but my concern is if one of the girls pee on it without my knowing. Will give it a try.

[superfun]

I'm not a potty training expert, so I could be way off here. My daughter was similar, she could hold it, and she could tell me when she needed to go, but she couldn't pee on command. She could, and still does, hold it for a LONG time! We ended up buying her pull ups, and I think that helped her relax. She was potty trained within a week of using pull ups.