DD ready for TT but not quite getting it - advice please :)
My daughter is not quite 2 yet (she will be at the end of July) so I have no high expectations from her in regards to toilet training. The thing is she really seems to WANT to be toilet trained, she just isn't quite getting the hang of it.
Every day she will tell me "poop" and want to sit on her potty, and every day we sit there with books until she gets bored and tells me "all done" without making any deposits of any type in the potty. Now this would not be a big deal at all, she is still young, except for 2 things.
1. After I put the diaper back on her, she will run off to play. She will then (usually while I am distracted with her brother) finally poop in the diaper, return to the the bathroom, remove all her clothes (from head to toe) including the poopy diaper, attempt to empty her poopy diaper into the toilet (thus smearing poop all over the toilet), and put said diaper open in the garbage (thus smearing poop all over the garbage can lid). Then she will sit on her little potty (this smearing poop all over the potty seat) and call to me proudly "poop, poop" at which point I have to clean her, the potty, the toilet, the garbage, and the floor. A lot of work on a daily basis.
2. Again when I am distracted, she will run off and hide, remove her clothes and diaper, and pee all over the floor (usually all over a toy or book in the process as well), and then bring me her clean diaper to put back on. Again a lot of work when it happens every day.
She knows what the potty is and what it is for (and she likes to tell you), she loves to sit on it and will stay there for quite awhile if you are reading to her, she cheers for anyone who does use the potty, but she just can't seem to get anything done on it herself. She seems to want to use it and I would really like her to as I am really tired of cleaning up, but I don't know what to do to help her make that final connection that she seems to be missing.