I agree, Zoie is 9 months old and she just now goes to stand by the door to be let out. She started the staring at me thing awhile back, but she didn't do it for long and gave up too easily and then peed on the carpet. She finally started standing by the door and even barking (thank you GOD!!) sometimes! What made the difference for her was shutting off the whole house. She can only run around in the room she sleeps in (the great room) and the room that's open to it, the kitchen (hardwood floor). She has had WAY FEWER accidents since we've regularly put up the gates. It took a week for her to figure out this is just how it was and she rarely tries to go out into the rest of the house if a gate is down (if they've been up all the time). Now if we leave them down a whole day or something, she'l start going into the other rooms, but she won't even go upstairs without my husband inviting her to. It has taken months to get to this point where I'm not frustrated with her all the time about potty training. Just give it time and be consistent. Those are the best words that helped me. |