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I think you definitely need all the care givers for her on the same page. It can be confusing if there are different methods of teaching. And switch to big girl underwear, my daughter insisted that she was dry in her pull up because she couldn't tell she was wet. Yes it is going to be messy at first, but once she gets it you won't have any more diapers to change! Let her go to the store with you and pick out a toy, buy it but tell her she can't play with it until she is potty trained, this is a bigger incentive than stickers. Remember that there will be accidents and night time training can take longer! good luck.

Okay, first of all, I bet your sitter isn't doing a very good job with the potty training. I agree with you that you should not put her back in diapers. Keep praising her when she uses the potty. You may even want to use sticker charts. With charts, your daughter can work her way up to something better than a sticker by repeatedly using the potty. Also, you may want to switch from pull-ups to big girl underwear. Some kids get the idea that it's okay to pee-pee in the pull-ups because it's similar to a diaper. The most important thing is consistency. You should make her try to use the potty every time. (Or every few hours if she doesn't tell you when she needs to go.)

I was a nanny for quite a while and I think your sitter should respect your decisions. It doesn't seem that she is contributing very much to this effort.

The stickers usually work very well. I also used the sticker method in combination with a reward, like for every 10 stickers they get to pick a candy in the check out line or they get a dollar in the piggy bank and at the end of the month they get to pick a toy or things like that.

What I also find motivates them if you go to the store and buy her some white underwear and some "big girl" underwear with her favorite cartoon character on them. She gets to wear the white ones as long as she still has some accidents after you take away the pull ups, and when she proves to you she can tell you when she needs to go or even goes alone, she gets to wear the nice ones, like a big girl would!

Sometimes a song or a little dance helps to make it a "celebration" in the beginning.

Good luck!

You need to take her out of the pull ups & diapers during the day. Put on big girl panties, buy some with charactors that she loves. She won't like the feeling of them being wet and will quickly learn to use the potty. Sit her on the potty during the regular times she goes like when she wakes up or before she goes to sleep, after breakfast that sort of thing.

Keeping her in pull ups or diapers is not going to encourage her using the potty, it will do exactly the opposite, she doesn't feel when they're wet. You need to put her in the panties and make a big deal about them dry! Positive reinforcement!!! Everytime she has an accident (she will have accidents) just tell her that next time she needs to use the potty so her panties don't get wet and put her on the potty!

You and the sitter need to be on the same page, consistancy is the key. If she wears pull ups at the sitters and panties at home it won't work, she needs to wear panties at both places. At first you can put pull ups on when you go out ... to the park, shopping, especially when you're in the car for a while, but as she learns to control it and to let you know when she needs to use it you can limit pull up time to naps and bedtime.

It's taken my almost three year old about 6 months to be able to go all day without an accident and the number 2's are the hardest. Now we're working on dry nap times ... easying our way into nights. Patience will pay off, it gets frustrating when you go through three pants & panties a day, but it WILL get better. It was just one day she woke up and clued in, "if i want to stay dry I need to use the potty".

Good luck!

I just finished potty training my twin 3 1/2 yr olds. I had done the same thing...our success was hit and miss...one day, my partner and I told the girls that they couldn't wear diapers anymore and switched them to training pants and panties. Needless to say, it was messy at first, but got better quickly because they didn't like being messy. One of my girls hasn't worn diapers in 2 months, the other wears a pull up at night only because she still can't control her bladder when she sleeps. Otherwise, you are doing what you are supposed to. Hang in there, its not an easy task, but we all get through it. Good Luck :)

keep her out of diapers and pull ups they make the child feel as if they are still in diapers bring her to the bathroom every hour and sit her on the toilet. Sing songs i know sound weird but it helps them relax and if she goes gives her a reward. if she does have an accident bring her to the toilet and sit her there and tell her that this is where she goes potty now. don't get mad whatever you do

The joys of potty coaching! My son's pediatrician endorsed that you just wait till practically three years ancient to begin potty coaching boys. Girls generally tend to begin slightly faster, round two one million/two or so. My son is now four one million/two, and potty coaching was once really the struggle. He has had plenty of constipation disorders and withholding disorders that he needed to see a gastroenterologist for, which behind schedule potty coaching beyond the pediatrician's endorsed age of three. We used a gift process within the starting. I had a box of mini M&M's. Each time he went pee at the potty he bought one million, and at any time when he went poo he bought two. (The rationale we gave him two for going poo is due to the fact that that is wherein our struggle was once as a rule as a result of his constipation and withholding disorders). He went to a babysitter throughout the day, and she or he wasn't fairly up for doing the entire sweet factor, so he might get little stickers there each time that he went potty. Another colossal incentive for him was once that preschool wasn't too off in his long run, however we might inform him that he needed to be going to the toilet at the potty and no longer in having injuries if he desired to move. So that fairly helped matters. Also, carry a laugh matters in the toilet. With my son, we might carry books or his magnadoodle in there. We learned that oftentimes we simply needed to get him to chill out in order that he might cross. As a mum or dad, you realize the endurance children have may be very small, so while they're simply sitting there making an attempt and don't have anything else to recognition on, they are able to get pissed off really comfortably. It is helping to position their awareness someplace else. Another idea is to simply make a fairly colossal deal everytime that he is going. Unfortunately, there is no cut-off date on how lengthy potty traning can take. Each baby is special, and oftentimes powerful willed youngsters can take slightly longer. My son nonetheless has injuries occassionally, however they just look to arise at dwelling. He has certainly not had an coincidence at preschool or out in public. We nonetheless ought to remind that its time to take a look at an cross to the toilet. Kids simply get so sidetracked while they're gambling or doing different movements. I realize that after we have been first commencing out, we might have him attempt to cross to the toilet each and every hour or two. Even if he did not regularly cross, he might no less than take a look at. Hope this data is helping.

We had this problem with our son. When I approached the pediatrician they said the old approach was to force them to do it when we thought they were ready. They have found that this only causes a power struggle with the little one. Some children's bodies just aren't physically ready for it yet even if they are 3. Some children just aren't mature enough to handle that responsibility yet as well. He said to back off, make the underpants available, and then let them decide when they are ready. He had us make "peer pressure" comments like "your friend bobby wears big boy underpants". Sometimes rewards work, but after awhile they get bored with that. I have to say, this worked for us, because as soon as we backed off and just let him decide, he all the sudden was asking for "Cars" and "Transformers" underwear and going to the bathroom on his own.

Just get the underwear. tell her that if she loves them she can wear them only if they stay dry. Once she has an accident, she'll get it.