Ugh, DD is driving me NUTS with her diapers/refusal to pee on the potty

The past week or 2, she's driving us NUTS. Always scratching/pulling/yanking on her diaper, saying it's saggy/scratchy/yucky. I mean, she looks like a baseball player yanking at her ****** all day

She wants to wear underwear. Fine...we'd love that. We make a big deal about how it feels soooo nice to not wear a diaper, etc. But remind her that she'll have to pee on the potty if she's not wearing a diaper....we get a nod.

Well, she'll SIT on it but refuses to pee. The girl didn't pee for 2+ hours the other day while wearing underwear....she's purposely holding it in And THIS is the girl who has a predisposition (so they think) to UTIs (already had 2 in her life, though not from holding in pee).

She's driving us mad....pee on the damn potty so we can get rid of diapers. She GETS the whole potty thing, but is being stubborn. Will sit on the potty for books, etc but won't pee. Will not pee while wearing the underwear. Will not pee until we put a diaper on finally (b/c we don't want her holding it any longer).

Re: Ugh, DD is driving me NUTS with her diapers/refusal to pee on the potty

can you bribe her buy buying a thing she will absolutely flip for and keep it in the bathroom and she ONLY gets it when she pee's/ we used a mac truck for josh for pooping in the begining and it worked great.

good luck!

Re: Ugh, DD is driving me NUTS with her diapers/refusal to pee on the potty

Did you try candy?

Candy works for my DD... to the point where she sits on the toilet every single time she wants a piece of candy. I have to tell her that I have to hear the pee in order for her to get some candy.

I haven't had to deal with a UTI so I'm obviously coming from a different place, but what worked to get my DD to actually pee on the potty was letting her get wet in panties... she HATES getting wet - she really gets upset which I view as a positive thing. I tell her it's okay to have accidents but that's why we have to use the potty so we don't make a mess AND she'll get candy.

Works for pee. Poop is another story altogether.

Re: Ugh, DD is driving me NUTS with her diapers/refusal to pee on the potty

Posted by eroxgirl

Did you try candy?

Candy works for my DD... to the point where she sits on the toilet every single time she wants a piece of candy. I have to tell her that I have to hear the pee in order for her to get some candy.

I haven't had to deal with a UTI so I'm obviously coming from a different place, but what worked to get my DD to actually pee on the potty was letting her get wet in panties... she HATES getting wet - she really gets upset which I view as a positive thing. I tell her it's okay to have accidents but that's why we have to use the potty so we don't make a mess AND she'll get candy.

Works for pee. Poop is another story altogether.

Re: Ugh, DD is driving me NUTS with her diapers/refusal to pee on the potty

Is she afraid? I know with my son, he trained for poop first, but he was afraid when we first started. Have you tried loading her up with fluids? With my son we put him in underwear and encouraged him to drink fluids---I didn't push him to sit on the potty, I just kept telling him to tell me when he needed to go, once he started to have an accident, I would rush him to the potty and put him on, then he could finish going on the potty---once he saw he could go on the potty and it wasn't that scary he would go and sit when I asked him if he needed to. So it puts the power to them to tell you instead and what toddler doesn't want to be in charge! Of course its messier this way, but it really helped my son to figure out 1. the potty wasn't scary and 2. when he needed to go

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We had a two pronged approach...

The first was the stickers..We had a life-size cutout in brown paper and every time she went peepee on the potty she got a sticker of her choice. (we had tons of stickers) It made her excited to go and then choose where on the brown paper to put the sticker. We still have it hanging on her closet door

The other was a longer term goal getting to come and get a mani-pedi with mommy...

She continued pooping her pants for 6-8 months after she was fully pee trained. Kid just loved to poop her pants. She would pee on the potty, put her sticker on the door, and then go and stand in the corner and poop in her pull-up....THAT took a much larger bribe. SANTA brought her a BARBIE truck...
It worked

Re: Ugh, DD is driving me NUTS with her diapers/refusal to pee on the potty

Are you certain she has to go in those 2 hrs? They tend to be able to stay dry longer when they are ready to potty train. For DS no type of bribery worked, not even his most favorite things (trains) would get him to go on the potty. I finally told him 3 year olds were not allowed to wear diapers. On his 3rd b-day diapers gone, bring in the underwear. The child had 1 public accident and MAYBE 5 accidents total. And we went to lake george a week later. It seems the all or nothing approach has worked for us and for most of my mommy friends. Good Luck, I hope you find what works for you guys

Re: Ugh, DD is driving me NUTS with her diapers/refusal to pee on the potty

I just read another idea recently but haven't tried it...make a face out of construction paper to stick on the back of the potty, make them name the face, and remind them that they have to "feed" ____

LOL