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Anne McD
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I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I'll give you three guesses as to what we're doing in our house right now! The boys were so easy-- in less that two weeks, they went cold turkey and were trained. My daughter . . . sigh. Someday. Maybe when she's 12 . ..
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wow, and I thought I was the only one!! my four boys were easy easy easy, all practically trained themselves between on average btween the ages of 20-24 months.
now Miss Maria, well, I think it took quite a few months, and wow, taking a little GIRL to the bathroom in a gas station/ Wal Mart, etc is just NOT as easy as a boy 
praying for you!!
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Aren't girls great?!
My just turned two year old has started saying "pooped" and "soaked", so she is very aware but clueless about the potty.
Today, she decided that instead of just telling me she needs changed she should take off the diaper and give it to me. Fortunately, she hadn't "pooped" either time!
I guess it is time to begin...
So Anne, I'll be crying with you!
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LisaR wrote:
wow, and I thought I was the only one!! my four boys were easy easy easy, all practically trained themselves between on average btween the ages of 20-24 months.
now Miss Maria, well, I think it took quite a few months, and wow, taking a little GIRL to the bathroom in a gas station/ Wal Mart, etc is just NOT as easy as a boy
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it'll be different with a girl for sure. i always loved standing DS on the toilet backwards so we didn't have to touch anything in the public restroom
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Anne your opening post had me ROFL! I can relate. Girl #4 is potty training as we speak. All I can say is thank the Good Lord we have our own carpet cleaner machine. 
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Oh Anne! You have my sympathies! My DS was very good about the schedule and the timer (I used the book "Toilet Training in less than a Day" with him), but my DD was so independent about everything. It had to be on HER terms: the underwear (and WHICH ONES), which potty, how to sit on it....SIGH. I have to say that once she was ready, she did it all herself. She has stopped wearing pull-ups at night and STAYS dry. I just had to help her in a way that she didn't realize that she was being helped, if that makes any sense.
I wish you luck! It will get better!
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Oh, poor you.
Funnily enough, it was the opposite in our house. Dds were easy peasy lemon squeezy, ds was awkward as anything and in nappies at night for months and months.
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That's how is was at our house too. Our girls were pretty easy and our son was hard. It took much longer to get him potty trained. Our first two girls it took less than a week and only a couple more weeks to be out of diapers at night. Our son took forever to potty train but it didn't take very long for him to be out of diapers at night. Our 3rd dd potty trained quicly but is still in pullups at night (don't think she has a mature enough bladder to go all night every night).
Feeling your pain and sending sympathy
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Someone could make a fortune if it were possible to have such a thing as a "Potty training School" !
We have a deal in our house......during "potty training lockdown", dh keeps me well-supplied in cheesecake. I eat cheesecake for breakfast, lunch and dinner..... .
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I have just started training ds-3 and dd-2.
I was just saying to the big kids "I wonder how many souls we can get out of purgatory during the next few weeks?!"
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Suzanne, I'll have to remember the cheesecake thing next time we potty train!
Joann, there you go! Offer it up for the souls in purgatory, boy we could do a lot of good during potty training time!
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Ah yes, offering it up-- I should have done that. Instead, I drowned my sorrows in the M&M's that were supposed to be her "reward" for going each time and put her back in the pullups. Its just not her time.
Lets put it this way-- a couple of times, I asked her to go sit on the potty, and a minute later when I walked into the bathroom, she was doing just that . . . sitting fully clothed on a closed potty!
I'm so not looking forward to the public restroom thing, though. Maybe God is sparing me for the time being. Boy #1, no probs, but boy #2 likes to sit. Lucky for me, he doesn't like to go in a bathroom he's not familliar with.
I guess it pays to be a little idiosyncratic!
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And thank you for all your sympathies-- all I've ever heard is how easy it is to train girls!!!
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Luke-3 went on the potty all day with no accidents!  This is his second day in underwear!
Kimberly-2 wore her underwear-all ten pairs-throughout the day.(She wouldn't wear anything else.) She sat on the potty naked for what seemed like hours (her choice) we keep finding puddles everywhere-the big kids said "this is worse than a puppy"! She didn't even care when she was wet, unless it got her bare feet wet-then she would scream "Yucky, yucky, yucky!" She may not be ready for potty training yet!
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joann10 wrote:
I have just started training ds-3 and dd-2.
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That made me burst out in giggles.
I am feeling everyone's pain, too. Wonder Boy is 3.5yo and we are having a terrible time of training. My 19mo daughter is more interested in the potty than he is!
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If it makes any of you feel any better my dd age 5 is still not trained (well she was trained for 2 weeks last summer because she wanted to take swimming lessons). Our Peditrician thinks she's just too stubborn. My ds age 3 and one of my twins are training themselves right now.
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My first was very easy. I sat a potty in the living room and put her in panties and she was completely "trained" by 2. She hardly ever even had night time accidents after 3. She has a huge bladder, I think!
Dd2 is almost 3 and nowhere near potty trained. She's developmentally delayed, though. But it's still frustrating.
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