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How do you potty train a 3 year old girl who is very resistive?
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∙ 12y ago
My 3 year old son was/is very resistive. What worked for him was a full combination of the following:
- periodically (when you think it is time to try & use the potty) ask him if he wants a candy/chocolate. SHOW him the candy (because he often even resisted that and said he doesn't like candy!). Then when he switches from "no" mode to "yes" mode, tell him that he can have 1 candy for a pee-pee and 2 candies for a poo-poo.
- never ask him if he needs to go pee or use the potty etc. because that just makes him dig in.
- never force him to go.
- never give a timeout etc or anything negative during the event.
- when he is on the potty to do a pee, tell him that he gets another candy for "squeezing it out" - yes that much detail. What we found was that he would sit on the potty but not try to squeeze anything out, then 2 minutes later would have an accident when his pants were back on. He would say "I don't need to go" while he is sitting on the potty. So important to offer the candy for trying to squeeze it out.
- Initially, we needed to make the potty VERY easily accessible. It was in the living room/play room (wherever we were, the potty followed and was right there). This seemed to remove a barrier for him because he didn't have to go all the way to the bathroom (i.e. no situation change).
- Initially, it was crucial for him to have NO pants on at all - naked the whole day. This was another barrier - having to remove his pants before using the potty was too much effort. Also, being used to being in diapers and it being OK to pee/poo in your pants seemed to make him think it was ok to do it in underwear as well. Being naked made him not want to pee or poo on the floor (although he did a few times at first).
- Hygiene aside, we would provide him with the first candy while he is on the potty (not afterwards), so that association is there as part of the experience, not as a reward for after he is done.
- We also found that part of the reason why he didn't want to go is because he didn't want to stop playing or stop watching a show etc. So we kept showing him and explaining that you can "pause" the activity or show and come back to start right where you left off with no loss.
Hope this helps a bit. It was frustrating to us, but eventually everyone becomes potty trained (to various degrees :) ).
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