Please help me, I am banging my head against a brick wall (or a pee sodden carpet!)

[sweetkitty]

The background - DD1 is 2.10yo, started potty training at around her second birthday at her insistence but it feels like we are still getting nowhere. Today she has had 4 accidents, yesterday it was 3. Some days she is great no accidents at all then others are like today. I have tried everything reward charts, loads of praise etc now if she pees she takes her bottoms off herself and sits in the naughty corner. I have tried getting cross now I just ignore her and act all disappointed. Sometimes she can be great at M&T she will run up to me and ask to go same if we are out, she can go up to an hour in the car without an accident. She never has a nappy on during the day now. Poos are brilliant never an accident she will take herself off to the toilet by herself and will even tell you to close the door and leave her alone!

We have a toilet off the living room with a potty in it and she has a potty outside as well when we are in the garden.

It's driving me up the wall it's been 10 months of wiping pee off the carpet now, it's really wearing me down.

Any ideas oh wise potty trainers???

Hello
she might be having accidents becouse she has a water infection so it might be worth a trip to the doctors to get that chequed. Your local health visitor may have some good tips for you the doc will have their number if you dont.

You could try taking her shopping letting her choose some special pants of her own about 5 pairs These are so special she must try to look after them.... Make no further coment.... no pressure... and see if it helps

My mum got DD2 some pants and she always wanted to wear nana's pants and they were always dry ones

I would stick with the praise and try not to be disappointed.

Agree with a quick check with gp if all is going well with the poo side of things.

hiya thanks for the replies, we have done the big girl pants thing already. I'm not sure about the water infection because this has been going on for months and sometimes she can go almost a week being dry.

My HV is next to useless and I think I've only met her about twice when DD2 was born.

I think we just need to get going and hopefully the accidents will disappear but it so so wears you down.

I would suggest you go to the GP and take a urine sample with you (get her to sit on a potty). My DD was very similar and it was a urine infection. It has been back several times so that could be the recurrent problem with accidents.