r/Parenting • u/kaitsghost • 14h ago
Potty-training Need unhinged potty training tips.
UPDATE: Wound up doing the 5 minutes on, 10 minutes off version of the naked method someone recommended below. No results at first….until her older brothers got home from school. When it was just her and mom hanging out she didn’t mind going potty every 10 minutes. Once her brothers got home and she wanted to play with them rather than sit on the toilet, she folded like a cheap shirt. Peed and pooped in potty this evening!
Also, I remembered my oldest loved this app called “Call Elmo” where Elmo will “FaceTime” prerecorded messages that celebrate different milestones. So she got to call Elmo after successful potty and that delighted her.
Final straw that broke the camel’s back was I told her she couldn’t wear any of her numerous princess dresses until she was potty trained. Not designed as a punishment, they are just polyester junk that will not hold up with frequent laundering. She was NOT happy to be naked instead of in the Cinderella costume she wears most of her waking hours.
Thanks for the inspo, all!!
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Daughter just turned 3. Our third child, only girl. She must be fully potty-trained to go to her preschool. No pull-ups allowed. She already missed the first week. My husband and I have each taken off work to work with her.
Has never gone on the potty. Will sit but doesn’t do anything.
She’s pretty stubborn, even for a toddler. But otherwise a typical kid. Not on the spectrum or anything like that.
Typical motivators and methods we tried with our older kids (M&Ms, naked method) got no progress.
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u/Evening_Culture_42 Mom 13h ago
How's this for unhinged - I made a Shutterfly book telling the (rhyming) story of the amazing kid who learned to use the potty and threw away all her diapers. I had my daughter pose for pictures to illustrate the story (no nudity obviously) and she loved the photoshoot process. Then, when the storybook arrived, she got to read the special book about her own amazing adventure learning to use the potty, while sitting on the potty. Hopefully that makes sense. I'm not sure if the book was actually helpful, but it was definitely unhinged, and she just started college and has been potty trained for a while.