Transition to Big Potty

My DD is getting to be a champ on the little potty. We started with that because she was scared of the big potty and she's very small and not a good climber. I'm tired of the little potty now and she's grown some and I think she could get up there just fine with some practice. It's also holding us back because she refuses to go potty outside of the house away from her little potty. Public restrooms terrify her and we tried a small portable potty but she didn't like it either. Any ideas of how to get her over her fear of the big potty and ready to try it? I was thinking of just making the little potty disappear but I'm worried it may set her back a lot if she continues to refuse the big potty.

 

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I wouldn't take her potty away for fear of set backs either. I would take her potty everywhere we went and make a point of going into a public restroom where she would do it on her potty maybe beside you doing it on the big one. Would she feel comforted on the big one facing backwards with you holding her? Plus, we had a seat that went on top of the big potty so it fit little bums - are you using one like that? (Not the fold up kind becasue it pinches but the padded kid seat ones. That's what we had and took with us into stores etc.

Good Luck.

 

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I wouldn't take her potty away for fear of set backs either. I would take her potty everywhere we went and make a point of going into a public restroom where she would do it on her potty maybe beside you doing it on the big one. Would she feel comforted on the big one facing backwards with you holding her? Plus, we had a seat that went on top of the big potty so it fit little bums - are you using one like that? (Not the fold up kind becasue it pinches but the padded kid seat ones. That's what we had and took with us into stores etc.

Good Luck.



She won't even use a child insert on a big potty. We have them for all the potties at home but she won't even go on them here. Her potty is a smaller stand alone one for the floor. It's too big to carry around in stores or diaper bags and she won't go on the portable stand alone kid ones either. She's very particular. Her sister is doing better about going on the big one sometimes, so maybe if I can get the other twin up on the big one all the time, she'll consider trying it.

 

What about either reasoning or bribing.

With bribing, the trick is finding something that she is going to find worth the hassle and not something she gets all the time. A trip somewhere she really wants to go (Chucky Cheese) or something she wants, a sleepover at Grandmas.

Or reasoning with her as in - you have your favorite pretty outfit on (we went cold turkey - no diapers so if she had an accident she was wet), you don't want to wet your pretty outfit. If you get wet, I didn't bring any other clothes today and we will have to leave Chucky Cheese (or wherever else she is that she won't want to leave) to go home right away to change, you don't wan't that do you? Here, mommy will help you and hold you all the time.

Maybe settle for holding her up over the toilet while she pees so she doesn't even touch the toilet and she is just over it. Then after a few times of this, if successful, you could, while holding her over the toitet say oh your getting heavy, I'll put you down for a minute but i'll keep holding you. Don't worry. I won't let you go.

Have you asked her why she has a problem with the big toilet. Maybe you can overcome her problem.

I don't know. I didn't have that specific problem so I can only imagine what I would try.