Dont give up. Have your wife take your daughter with her everytime the wife needs to do number 1 or number 2. Have your daughter sit on her little potty while your wife does her thing. Have your wife show your daughter the toilet bowl when she is done. Do this enough and your little girl will soon be potty-trained.
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Bribery worked for my 2, we got to the point where they knew what the potty was for they just would not use it on a regular basis. So a promise of buying a batman and a thomas the tank engine toy if they used it for a full week worked wonders.
Killswitch
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Me and my wife would just take a weekend and dedicate it to potty training. We told him if he used the potty and pissed in there he get a yogurt covered raisin but we told him they were M&M's. If he took a shit he could have a piece of chocolate from his Bunny. Every hour we just put him on the potty for at least 3-5 minutes. Eventually he went and we praised him when he did use it. We made him wear underwear as well no diapers. Once he was going we still put diapers on him at night just in case of an accident. Eventually he goes all by himself and even wipes his own ass by the time he was 2 1/2. I think I got totally lucky with this one though.
Dashel
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My son was a pain in the ass with potty training. No tantrums just inconsistent. We took a weekend and had him go diaperless and that made a lot of progress but he still had lapses. We just tried to walk the fine line between encourage and not make a huge deal out of it. What worked best was a carrot and stick. If he went with no accidents I told him I'd get him a new Godzilla toy, and until he did no sleepovers at grandmas or aunts house because he needs to be a big boy to do that.
At the end of the day it just took time. If he's throwing tantrums I'd back off and let him come to the conclusion that this is best for everyone that he does it. Just remind him now and then to go but dont make it a huge deal.
iannis
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My father didn't start to speak until he was about 4 years old -- and besides for being my old man he's a perfectly normal and healthy individual. I didn't start to speak until late, myself. I still have scars on my knees where I started to crawl about two weeks after they brought me home from the hospital, though.
I mention that because you're doing the right thing in taking him to specialists. There may be something going on developmentally which is quantifiable and treatable. Or it may be a situation where while there are patterns to our growth every child literally is unique in their development. Listen to the Childhood Development guys -- you're doing what can be done, not failing him at all. You can't do what can't be done and even if you could it might not be the best thing for him developmentally.
Only start to worry when the specialists start to worry.
Sometimes he is wearing diapers, sometimes he's not. We usually let him run around the house without a diaper, or just in training underwear.
Big breakthrough last night. He peed on the potty, twice. Then, without issue, as I was playing SWToR, I look down at him sitting on the potty making his poop face. He wasn't unhappy, or whining at all. He just sat there and went. I've never been so happy about a turd in my life!
Big breakthrough last night. He peed on the potty, twice. Then, without issue, as I was playing SWToR, I look down at him sitting on the potty making his poop face. He wasn't unhappy, or whining at all. He just sat there and went. I've never been so happy about a turd in my life!
I'm not a parent so excuse my ignorance, but when your kid doesn't hit some milestone at the same time as is "supposed to" happen, what is the worry? It's not like if a kid isn't potty trained by 2 he's gonna decide "diapers for life." Is it fear that it's a sign that your kid might have some developmental problem? Or is it disappointment that they aren't reaching milestones earlier as some sign that they are better than other kids? I've never heard anyone say this stuff has any implications for adulthood, so I don't get it.
lindz
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For us, the speech problems were a sign of larger developmental problems. Milestones are at the ages they are to let you know your child is developing properly. They can reach them early or late, but its when they are significantly off pace that it can be a sign of more significant problems.
Cutlery
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It's just parental nature to freak out if your kid isn't progressing like they're "supposed" to. Everyone does it to some degree or another, but some people just get more freaked out about it than others.
First/only kid might be a major contributor to offenders here.
First/only kid might be a major contributor to offenders here.
Super happy about this and that you and chaos connecting on this was able to provide a potential break throughSmall update, my son really took to the sign language, he only knows a couple things but if he brings me his sippy cup and hands it to me, as soon as it's out of his hands he makes the sign for more.
It seems like a small thing but I is proud of him.
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We did a small christmas. I think we spent about 100 on the baby, 120ish on the 2 year old, and 200 on the 3 year old. The only reason the 3 year old is such an outlier is that she got a bike. She also got a Merida doll (of course) and a doctor kit. 2 year old got a huge pack of My Little Ponies, a Tinkerbelle and Periwinkle doll, and one of those kid digital cameras.We're going to see how that works out, she likes to take pictures with our phones and tablets and stuff so I have high hopes. The baby got some cool stuff, a case that goes around my wife's Ipad and some apps for that and some baby toys.
I still feel like we spent too much. Our kids got SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many toys this year, not to mention the entire room in our house devoted to them which I will have to get pics up of sometime. They made out like bandits. They got like 300-500 bucks worth of free shit from Fisher Price back in October. I don't want to spoil them or end up buying toys that they ultimately won't care about or play with. But whatever, I should be happy I had the money to spend I guess.
300 for the 3 year old boy and 350 for our eight year old girl. Let me tell you it sucks being separated right now. I got to get up and watch my son unwrap everything and that was a joy. But I had to call my daughter and talk to her instead of getting to spend Christmas with her. Hardest thing I've had to do yet in my life is hear "thanks for the presents and I love you daddy, but I miss you too much". Living states apart sucks on so many levels.
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For the potty training, making them only wear underwear during the day seemed to help my son in a big way. Daughter was easy to potty train but he resisted it so hard until I made that adjustment. Sure its extra cleaning work for you but peeing/shitting in whitey tighties feels might different to them vs even a pullup trainer. They just can't ignore it and don't like the wet/sticky feeling.
edit:
For the potty training, making them only wear underwear during the day seemed to help my son in a big way. Daughter was easy to potty train but he resisted it so hard until I made that adjustment. Sure its extra cleaning work for you but peeing/shitting in whitey tighties feels might different to them vs even a pullup trainer. They just can't ignore it and don't like the wet/sticky feeling.
Tarrant
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Yeah it's the one thing that has kept me in this state when I could have transferred out to make more money a couple times. I refuse to see my kids less then the once a month I see them now. Sorry you have to deal with that.
This was the first year I haven't had my two oldest for xmas morning in three years and it was weird.
My brother told me he bought his 9 year old an iPhone...it took everything in me to not be like wtf?