The life of a parent with a toddler is full of adventures and one of them include potty training!!! Luckily we have a very good little girl that is cooperative!!! We started setting her on the potty about 5-6 months ago so that she could just "try" to go potty and so that she would get the feeling of what it was like. We would put her there in the mornings after she woke up and before and after baths. Occasionally she would go. We were starting to get discouraged as she was approaching 3 and still not fully capable of telling us when she needed to go.
Once we told her that she would get in trouble if she went poo-poo in her pants, she got that down quick!! She only got in trouble once and from then on she would tell us. That happened about 1 month and a half before her birthday. With feeling the success of not having to change poopy diapers any more we started in on the pee-pee side. Surprisingly that didn't take long either. She would go when we would set her on there, but wouldn't tell us when she needed to go. We got a second training toilet to keep downstairs so that she could go when the moment came and found that to be a successful solution.
With about two weeks to go before her third birthday we started putting big girl panties on her in the evenings for a couple of hours and told her not to go in her big girl panties. It seemed like it just clicked from that moment on!! She is now successfully potty trained!! Now the next step is to do night time potty training, which we think is pretty close to being done too!! We shall see... All I know is that we don't have to spend money on diapers for a while!!!
