[MiracleBaby06]

Aiyana has been telling me shes gone pee/poop and then praise herself when she hasnt. She does OK with the potty and asks to sit on it when she wakes up(waiting on hardware for toddler convert) but it still takes her awhile to do anything but untill she does she sits on it and says shes gona and tells me to come look. What can i do to break her of this and just go foreal?

[angelic_ky]

i've known a lot of kids that have done this... i don't know why nor how to break it... perhaps when she says she went ask to see before praising her and if she hasn't say something like "oh no, you haven't gone yet, let's try again"... it might be that they don't fully know the difference between feeling of going and just the feeling of needing to go, so she is needing to go but thinks she is going (make sense?)

[MiracleBaby06]

Ya when i go look i tell her she hasnt gone yet and to keep trying, she still insists on praising herself though. Then i tell her im not looking again untill theres really pee in there

[tiffanylacy3]

My daughter did the same thing. You still need to praise them for getting on the potty because that's a big step as well. When they get on the potty they understand that they are suppose to go in the potty and not in their pull-ups. What I did was put the potty in the living room and when she had to go she would sit on it, the first several times she didn't do anything but I told her that I was proud of her for getting on the potty. One night she got on the potty and I heard her actually going in the potty, she was so excited that she actually went. Their's nothing really to do other than to just wait it out and let her go at her own pace. It took my son forever to go in the potty but he eventually did it.

[ASheppa0821]

I have posted this a few times, and it has always worked for different things, especially potty training for some friends of mine.

Get a BIG glass jar (decorate it if you want, or have her decorate it...makes it more fun). Get some sort of coin/poker chips, etc. Put one coin in to show her what it looks like and it lets her set a goal in her mind. Tell her that every time she goes to the potty and actually puts pee or poo in the potty, she gets a coin. When the jar is full, she gets to do something fun or get a toy she's been wanting (it all depends on the child. You know what excites her, so use whatever that is... Getting a toy, going to a play center, having a playdate with a friend, etc.). Everytime she tells you she has to go and doesn't go, two coins get taken out (or if she has an accident in her pants). Set a timer in the bathroom for 3 minutes. If in 3 minutes she hasn't gone, out come two coins, and it sets her back. Make sure the jar is big enough to where it would take 3-4 weeks to fill.

It really does work!