Quote From: cdeereWOW! I can not believe how rude and judgmental you are! Message boards are for parents that are frustrated and seeking advice. I'm having the same problem. My son potty trained within two weeks of turning 3 and my daughter turns 4 next month and I have worked with her for over a year and can not get to fully potty trained. I came to the message board to find out what other parents had success with..........but was amazed that you would write something so harsh to a frustrated parent! I am also not lenient with my child and I do not let her run all over me. I've considered contacting our pediatrician to see if there is a medical condition that is preventing her from making to the potty 100 percent of the time. I am a worried, frustrated mother and seeing your e-mail response angered me. In the future, before you respond, choose your words more carefully.
I am also having trouble potty training my 4 year old daughter and the problem is not being too lenient. I have been working with her since she was 2 and she was very good at sitting on the potty by the time she was about 30 months, then we moved to a new house (are 1st w/2 floors) and she wouldn't use the potty at all while we lived there.
We have since moved to a new state and a small apartment, she goes through periods when she will use the potty all day sometimes (even though her timing is mostly off) and then she will not use it at all for a while. I let her pick out her own potty (our 2nd, she said she didn't like the 1st) and she even had her 1st bowel movement in it 2 1/2 months ago all by herself, but since then its been on and off.
She is highly intelligent (her speech and thought process is way above her age) and she knows what the potty's for and that big girls need to use it and not they're underpants, but when I ask her if she wants to use it she will say "no" or "later" or she is even in the stage where she says she doesn't want to be a big girl. She even said she didn't want her birthday this year because she doesn't want to grow up!
I'm not sure what to do and could use advice but I am certainly not going to force her or embarrass her in public as serez03 suggests in her most definately insensitive post!
