I'm not sure what the right thing to do is.

I am staying home today to focus on some potty training. I put DD in undies but she is crying hysterically that she wants a diaper - she even tried to put one on herself!!

What is your opinion...do I just skip the diaper anyway??? Or do you think she isn't ready?

She has peed and pooped on the potty before but I am afraid she will hold it in if I dont give her a diaper.

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my opinion would be to try a little longer and if she doesn't poop like she normally does, just put one on her, but if she has pooped in the potty before maybe she'll give in...give it a little longer and if not just try again tomorrow!

good luck!!

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When I started pottytraining Alex, I decided to stay home a weekend and work on it, and immediately she rebelled, and started doing the same thing.

I figured, the worst thing to do in this whole process is to pressure her, so I put her back in the diaper as she requested. BUT, I kept talking up the big girl underwear, how special it was, and that's when I introduced the sticker chart, and skittle incentive. And I told her if the next day she wore undies ALL day long, I would buy her a pottypresent.

So I'd let her do what she wants, otherwise she'll totally rebel, but introduce some SERIOUS incentives to convince her it's HER idea to go back into undies.

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Ryan use to cry for a diaper too, I use to just ignore him...

The diaper is a sense of security of course they dont wanna part with it...

Id let her cry or just let her be naked...

Be consistent, dont give up now....

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I don't think there is a WRONG or RIGHT way... we kind of all do what we feel works for us and our kid, ya know?

I didn't want to make them stress about the diaper or underwear, so I focused more on the act of using the potty - rather than what they wore. BUT Robbie was really attached to his pull ups and they were costing me a fortune! After he showed that he was totally capable of using the potty and was using for a while without much incident I created a new plan of attack.
I told him that we were going to have an underwear party to celebrate that he was a big boy. And I marked the day on the calendar and told him that on THAT DAY he would stop wearing diapers and only wear BIG BOY pants. He took off his pull up immediately and that was that. We still had the underwear party and he modeled for all of us!

Noah wanted to wear underwear as soon as possible because his big brother had them. So he was easy.

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We stayed in for almost 5 days straight to potty train. She's not perfect yet, but getting there. I'd say just get rid of all the diapers so she has no choice.

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When I trained my DD it was a complete nightmare. She would cry hysterically. I felt like a horrible mom because I was getting so frustrated w/her. I knew she could do it but SHE WANTED TO CONTROL IT AND DO IT WHEN SHE WAS READY, NOT WHEN I WAS READY.

I put it off for a little and still encouraged her while day care too was helping.

The day before her 3rd birthday, she just went and has been trained since.

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I would wait ....if Talia is anything like Antonio the only way things work is if he thinks it's his idea...

I would keep the underwear out for her to see and tell her when she is ready she can put them on...maybe even take her to the store to pick out her own...if you force her she might just be stubborn and not do it