with potty training. Or maybe just behaviour issues, I don't know. Dd has been potty trained since she was 19mths. She has been basically independent in the bathroom for almost a year. All of a sudden this past week she has been having a lot of accidents. Mostly on the way to the bathroom. Sometimes she can't tell me why she had an accident, others she screams in the bathroom that she can't get her pants down. Which doesn't really make sense to me because they are the same pants she has been wearing for the last few months with no problems dressing/undressing. [whatthink]

I've started to *send* her to the bathroom now and then, even if she says she doesn't need to go, which I haven't done in *many* months. We'll see if this helps. Maybe she is just playing right up until the last second that she can possibly hold it and that is why she can't quite make it in time? The "can't get my pants down" being an excuse? What do you think?

Hey, Kim! :mrgreen: I'm bettin' the 'can't get my pants down' thing means she can't get them down fast enough. :-D A couple of my kids went through a stage where they were holding it for too long, and then they'd rush to the bathroom in a mad hurry, sometimes not leaving enough time to get the drawers down. I think it's just a matter of reminding her to go earlier, rather than waiting until she has to go so badly. Maybe remind her how unpleasant it is when she can't get her pants down fast enough and she wets herself and the floor. You can say 'big girls make a point of going to the bathroom a little earlier. It shows how grown up they are. I know you can do it cuz you're such a big girl now!' [claploud]

Good luck, hon. I do think this is normal. She's probably getting really wrapped up in what she's playing. Her attention span is getting longer at this age, and it's hard to stop playing when you're on a roll.

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Joy [welcomewave]

I'm thinking she needs to go so bad that she can't pull her pants down out of being in a rush. even I have this problem when I'm trying to rush to "make it in time"
This happened with Abby, and I would do the same thing, remind her every so often to go potty. Even if she says she doesn't have to. I still do it once in a while, like before car trips.
She'll say " i don't have to go" but I tell her to try and when she does, I say "see" :-D

Thanks for your input. I think both of you are exactly right. We'll just start back into a routine of sending her to the bathroom every now and then and see if that fixes things. Thanks for your replies Joy and Esther! [lovesmile]

Hope it all smooths back out for you and the accidents stop.