Potty trained?

[hisbloodformysins]

My 3 year old girl has been potty trained since May.... but a few times a week she won't make it to the toilet on time.... I just don't get how she'll get all the way to the toilet, but then pee on the floor just in front of the toilet and she says "it was an accident"... I mean if she waited just two more seconds she could've sat on the toilet and went in it.

It's really aggravating sometimes. I realize that she might be having too much fun and waiting too long... .we'll ask her if she needs to go potty when she starts doing the pee pee dance but she'll say "no, not yet"... then 30 minutes later she has an accident.

This doesn't happen every day but just today I've begun considering putting her back in pull ups, I'm tired of cleaning up the pee.

We put "good nights" on her at bedtime, most the time she wakes up dry, but there are times she wakes up wet.

I'm so tired of this.

anyone have any suggestions?

HB

 

[katelyn]

Natalie has done that a few times...I think it's a combination of waiting too long and it being a little difficult for her to get on the potty because she's so small. I think she anticipates being on the potty and so releases her muscles too soon when she has to go really bad.

It hasn't happened recently. When she does her potty dance and claims she doesn't need to go, I tell her that she needs to go try so she doesn't have an accident. Occasionally she's adamant that she doesn't need to go right then, so I'll ask her after 5-10 minutes if she needs to go.

If she doesn't seem to mind having the accident, you could have her start helping to clean it up if she isn't already. That might make her change her mind, or at least help her realize the extra work it makes when she has an accident.

Good luck!

 

[TCat]

My DD just turned 4, and this still happens once in a great while. I agree with katelyn, it can be hard to get on the potty and little hands don't have the ease of undressing themselves as quickly as adults do.

Kids are also still learning about their bodies and time and getting distracted. I would not let a little, or a lot, of pee make this a major issue, aggervating as it is it is still not that big of a deal in the long run.

Yesterday DD told me in Boarders that she didn't have to go, even though she was wiggling like she is about to bust. We made the trip back upstairs to the bathroom and she sat on the pot forever telling me she did not have to go. (She hates the big toilets). We left without results to continue our errands. As soon as we got into the check out line at Costco she HAD TO GO NOW!!!
Oy vey NOW you gotta go.. so we parked the cart and went into yet another bathroom, one that was less clean.

It all a part of being a mom, it will pass and get easier, at least in the bathroom area, until they are teens!