What's the best way to start this for a girl? I'm new at this whole process, lol.

Bring her to the store and let her pick out some new underwear and get some plastic pants to put over them (so you don't have accidents to clean up). Plan to stay home for about a week straight. Then throw out the Pull Ups/diapers or whatever, yes throw them out and let her see you do it. I did keep some special night time ones hidden in the closet and just used those for night and then changed her right away in the morning.

Get some stickers or special prizes from the $1 store as rewards, lots of them! Every time she goes give her a little prize or a sticker, whatever she would really like to encourage her.

The day you start give her a LOT to drink, juice especially made my kids have to go. Then I set my timer on the microwave for every 45 minutes (you can adjust it if she isn't makeing it the full time) and we went every 45 minuntes to the potty to try.

My daughter was so fast, but my son took forever. I wanted to give up after the first 2 days with him, I was tired of the mess and the trouble it was, but you just have to stick with it.

Good luck! This is the place to come for good tips, there are lots of more experienced moms here with great ideas.

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Be persistant! If you are afraid to give up the pull-ups, just buy the ones with the wetness liner. My son HATES when he is wet! He changes his own diaper (pull-up) now! We go potty EVERY 45 minutes as well, it's a good thing for me because I am 5 months pregnant. We started giving him a Thomas the tank engine sticker to decorate his little potty chair with (we have two, one for each bathroom) but now since he has mastered the "urge to go" of pottying, we reward him for pooping in the toilet! He gets a Thomas sticker when he goes poop in the potty but when he gets to a certain number (first time was 30 now he has to have 20 times with #2), we take him to chuck e. cheese so he can go wild! He is only 2 (31 months) but I don't want two in diapers at the same time. All the sudden overnight, he started to TELL us he had to go potty. And we make it exciting for him to go potty as well. It's like a mini-party! Lots of noise and encouragement! Chuck e. cheese also has "reward" certificates you can use for potty training as well that give the child 10 extra tokens for doing a great job. If your child likes the playground or park that could be your incentive! I am not saying this method works for everyone but it did work for us and it sounds like it works for the above poster. The key is persistance...it will all follow eventually. Potty training in itself SUCKS but it is definately financially rewarding! I can't bring myself to throw away ALL the pullups because I had over 300 I got last year during the CVS clearance when they transitioned characters. We also had "generic" elmo pullups and "cars" pullups and when he went potty, he was allowed to wear the "lightning mcqueen" diapers but when he didn't go potty, he had to wear the elmo diapers. He didn't like that so that was another incentive for him. I know for girls with pampers and huggies, you have a choice of disney princess or dora. What does your daughter like? CVS makes a decent off brand that is VERY comparable to the huggies brand. HTH

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Are there certain times that you still have them wear diapers?
And how do you do it in the evening? My daughter still takes a juice at bedtime, not usually during the night, but right before. And at what age was your daughter when you potty trained her? My daughter just turned 2 on February 25th, she has actually used the potty before, I just don't think I'm patient enough, and honestly I didn't think about the plastic liners for the clean up, so she was just wearing the underwear and pants and making a mess, lol. Thanks for all the advice. Anymore would be greatly appreciated.

I used smarties for a reward with my boys. Everytime they would potty on the chair they get a roll of smarties. They each had a sugar-high for a few days but it worked. We are debating on trying DD again. She will be 2 in may. I bought her some Dora panties (she loves Dora) but she wont let me put them on her. She wants to hold them and look at Dora. Target has some water-proff swim bottoms (on an endcap near the diapers at my Target) that are pretty cheap. I bought a few of them and am hoping they work.

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