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Potty training 2 years 6month old advice.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Can she tell you that she needs to do a wee? If she cannot recognise that she needs to go, you should hold off and wait until she can.
A child first needs to know that she has done a wee and tell you.
Then progress to knowing she is doing one, and tell you she is doing it.
Then she should be able to tell you that she needs to.
Until she has mastered all stages you may as well leave her alone - she'll let you know when the time is right and then training should be quicker and less stressful for all of you. Good luck.
Figure out how often she goes, and try to plan around that, meaning place her in the bathroom like every 45 minutes or so, and don't stay in there with her, let her have her privacy "like a big girl". If she says she doesn't have to go just tell her to try, and give her a minute. Give her a star or a prize even if she doesn't actually go, this will urge her more to use the potty like a big girl, and maybe she'll start "trying" to go on the potty more often.--good luck!!
With my little one (who was about 2 yrs 4 months so similar to yours), we chose some pants as others have suggested. After 2 false starts (both lasting little more than a few hours!) my little one basically told me that he needed a wee one morning. I said I would get the potty and the rest, as they say, is history. We only did pants except at night time (he stayed in nappies at nighttime for the first 4 months) but left him in pants for his afternoon nap as I found that he was sometimes saying he was tired and wanted to go to bed so that he could do whatever needed doing! Miraculously after that, he would no longer be tired!! invest in a good waterproof sheet!
As for incentives, we had a sticker chart and went out and chose the stickers. Initially, we gave him a sticker for each time he sat on the potty, whether or not he did anything. When he had five stickers, he could have a chocolate star (Milky Way things). If he actually had a wee or a poo, then he got a chocolate star immediately. This worked really well to encourage him and then we just slowly weaned off the stickers for sitting on the potty, just having them when he had a wee/poo. A few accidents, but he did really well.
I must agree with the others in that the most success will be gained if your child is ready. Commit to it wholeheartedly and understand that there is a good chance on the first 2-3 days, there may be as many (or even more) accidents as successes, as they get used to the need to go to the toilet in time! This doesn't necessarily mean they are not ready - it's a big change to not just doing it in the nappy - but a decision for you to judge! Good luck!!
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