I am a huge believer in the child led potty training -the only thing that worked for my kid. I think you are going to have a rockin' easy time with your punkin. Christian was 4 when he perfected the pooping part, but the peeing was younger. I was just super patient until he just was done with it. Oh, and we did use a "Poo Poo Prize Box" toward the end.
It took us a little longer, because when he was almost trained, we moved to Colorado, and I decided he didn't need the additional pressure.
Buy some underpants, try it out, and then if she's not quite ready, then pull back a bit. She's going to be awesome at this and easy though, I think. She will let you know.
Oh, and we did a lot of the love and logic bit -let him come in if we were going potty and were really enthusiastic about the peeing and whatnot -even though I'm not a communal pottier by nature. We still sometimes say, "I have to go pee pee on the potty" with too much enthusiasm at our house...That worked the best for us.
Oooh, and great timing, because I loved letting Christian run around in the back yard with no pants and peeing...sort of easier with boys, but SO much fun. The only time in my life I actually had penis envy. Oh, I also sent him out to try it in the snow once...because how fun is that?! I was so excited! What kind of mother am I? Eeeek!
That's my "I am so not an expert that I don't even play one on TV" opinion.
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Date: 2009-04-29 07:40 pm (UTC)It took us a little longer, because when he was almost trained, we moved to Colorado, and I decided he didn't need the additional pressure.
Buy some underpants, try it out, and then if she's not quite ready, then pull back a bit. She's going to be awesome at this and easy though, I think. She will let you know.
Oh, and we did a lot of the love and logic bit -let him come in if we were going potty and were really enthusiastic about the peeing and whatnot -even though I'm not a communal pottier by nature. We still sometimes say, "I have to go pee pee on the potty" with too much enthusiasm at our house...That worked the best for us.
Oooh, and great timing, because I loved letting Christian run around in the back yard with no pants and peeing...sort of easier with boys, but SO much fun. The only time in my life I actually had penis envy. Oh, I also sent him out to try it in the snow once...because how fun is that?! I was so excited! What kind of mother am I? Eeeek!
That's my "I am so not an expert that I don't even play one on TV" opinion.