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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your child is probably not ready yet. 3 year old is still pretty young for potting training. Yeah you probably have seen lots of other kids are potty trained at this age but there are also many kids who are not.

My DD started to show potty interest at 2.5 but then she refused to use potty for about a year.  Later on she would tell me that the flush was too loud or bathroom at school too cold or scary, or she was afraid she would fall into it. There would be lots of little things that we don’t even think about but are huge big deals for them. I think we just need to give them time and try to figure out what bothers them. 
My DD is 4.5 now and she still occasionally has accidents. By age 5, everybody is able to go potty. I have never seen any adults who don’t know how to use potty. And when we grow up, it doesn’t matter if we were potty trained at age 3 or 5. [/quote]

This, if you're at the point you need a consultant she's not ready, go back to diapers for a couple of months and try again. Pushing for school will only give longer term problems[/quote]

and this folks is how you end up with 5 year olds going to kindergarten in diapers.

Oh Crap worked very well for us, and it doesn’t require rewards. One thing to keep in mind is that the partial training period can last for a long time. With Oh Crap we had pretty quick success with peeing first thing in the morning, or you can induce it by making them drink a bunch of juice. But from that point we went weeks with a lot of accidents. Seems like he came home every day from preschool with shoes full of pee for a while! But gradually there were fewer and fewer accidents.

Basically the idea is that gradual progress is OK. you just have to accept accidents will happen. If you’re getting one good pee on the potty a day, that’s success! [/quote]

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