Potty Training

Same here girl!! Well, I’m not pregnant but I work full time and we have an elderly incontinent dog that started peering all over the house so I’m now also changing HER diapers and cleaning up accidents. Also emotionally drained. We’ve tried the positive reinforcement, we’ve also tried everything you’ve mentioned and he has zero interest in using the potty. I don’t know what to do. He will never be accepted into any school unless he’s potty trained. And he should be starting next year. I’ve started to get angry and scold him. I don’t want to but we’ve literally exhausted all other methods. I also need help with this. You aren’t alone!!!!!

I’ve done sticker charts. She could care less. She’s even got certain milestones like telling us when she’s about to pee! We read the books. She knows peepee and poopoo goes in the potty. But for some reason when she has to go and we make it to the potty on time she’s scared of it going in the potty. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t know where this fear came from?? And we want preschool to help but they have a rule that if there’s two accidents then they get a pull-up so idk how long that will even last.

You have not failed! I know how exhausting it is when pregnant. I have been there! My girl is the same age as yours and she had been doing so good for 6 months. But she has regressed lately. We went back to giving her “treats” when she goes on the potty. Kind of like potty training a puppy lol. We give her a little cheese ball if she goes or little chocolate chips. That is what worked before so we are doing that again.
Also, my first is 5 now and she was not even ready to start potty training until she was 3. By 3.5 she was fully potty trained and has not had a single accident since then. Every child is different. I think there is a lot of pressure on us to get our littles potty trained so we don’t have more than one in diapers at a time. But sometimes it just takes longer, if we start before they are fully ready. Hang in there, it will pass eventually. I was 40 weeks pregnant potty training my May baby, she was doing great, now we are back to training again 6 months later.

Ugh thank you. It’s just all the rules. Don’t traumatize them. Don’t be weak. Ok well either I force her or I don’t?! And then you aren’t supposed to encourage with food apparently. It’s all this shit you aren’t supposed to do and I’m like THEN HOWWWWW. Haha but seriously thank you. It just feels like it’s me that’s doing something wrong.

I would just keep her in pullups and let her see other kids at school going. She will want to do what they are doing and start going potty in the toilet instead of pull up. It’s different for every kid. She may be afraid of toilets flushing so i would avoid it flushing too, but she could find it scary and uncomfortable until she sees the other kids doing it. I have friends whose kids were not day trained until age 4. At least at 3, she can take her own diapers off and throw them away and put on a new one herself.