Discouraged with House Training

[Holly Southall]

Please Somebody Help. I am becoming very discouraged with house training. My 4 month old doodle is Angel and she is a joy and is wonderful to train in all other areas but housetraining. She spends most of her days outside. I am a stay at home mom and am able to go outside to spend time with her several times a day and when the kids are home they also spend time with her, but I really want a dog to be inside with us some as well. But when we bring her inside she has to go to the bathroom pretty much every 30 minutes until she falls asleep. I can leave her in her crate for up to 4 hours with no accident. She sleeps all night with no accident.
My dog trainers have told me to attach her to me with a leash while she is in the house and I have. Normally she will whine and pull on the leash and I take her out. Yesterday she did not give me any clues and I found a potty accident in the kitchen. I have no clue when she did this and she was attached to me the whole time she was inside. She was only inside for 40 minutes. My fault for not taking her out at the 30 minute mark, but I was hoping she could hold it longer.
Reading different puppy house training schedules online has been so dicouraging. They say to take your puppy out every 1-2hours. Angel will potty in the house if I do not take her out every 30 minutes. That type of a schedule is really difficult on a mom with 3 kids. I am willing to do it, but when will it get better???? Asked the Vet and she said some puppies potty a lot. Is this normal??? Does anyone else have this issue, or did you have this issue????

[Holly Southall]

Thank you so much. We defintely tether inside and I am more diligent now to set a kitchen timer and take her out. I also click and treat and she knows now to expect it. I am now accident free for over a week. We are thrilled. Sometimes you wonder "whey didn't I think of this earlier". I am so thankful for everyone's encouragement