I have read numerous articles on potty training, tried multiple techniques and we are still going around in circles. I keep reading that potty training girls is easier. If there is truth in this I’ll be as bald as my husband by the time I get the boy potty trained. My daughter wants no part of it most days. Last night I was feeling great, was happy and excited and thought we finally had the major breakthrough. She wore her Dora panties all afternoon, went to the potty, didn’t have an accident and got very excited. This morning I went to put panties on her and she had a complete meltdown. I don’t want her to be scared of going potty so I put a diaper on her and reminded her to tell me when she needed to go potty. Not five minutes later the room had a funky smell and sure enough it was her. I cleaned her up and asked if she wanted to wear panties, she said yes so I tried to put Tinkerbell panties on her. Huge mistake! This was our second meltdown of the day, “no Tinkerbell, want Dora”. I went upstairs, got Dora and she was in panties. Fast forward to an hour later and I nearly break my neck jumping into action at the screams of “potty potty potty” I am there in seconds but I was too late.

I put her on the potty and she sat there playing with the door to the vanity showing off her knowledge of open and closed. A few minutes went by and I asked if she was all done, a few more minutes and the same question. After 15 minutes she announced she was all done and got down. We washed her hands and put on the last clean pair of Dora panties. I sit down on the couch to eat my breakfast and before I could take my first bite was again jumping up and flying across the room at the screams of “potty”. Again I am too late. Our potty training efforts for the day were then over as the attempt to put anything on her but Dora leads to a meltdown.

We’ve tried pull-ups and we’re not going back to those, bribing only worked short term and letting her have accidents doesn’t help either. If she has a diaper on she won’t tell me she needs to go unless she is in a time out. I’m not stressing over it and I know that when she’s ready she’ll let us know. For now we’ll keep trying and celebrating every little attempt. There is no written rule that kids are meant to be potty trained at the age of two. Kids so things in their own time and when they are ready, no sense in fighting it.

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