We started training DS (three next week) last week. The first day was good - couple of accidents in the morning, then in the afternoon he came to tell me he needed a wee, off we went to the toilet, he weed - everyone was happy! For a ocuple of days, he say happily on the potty after breakfast, playing with my ipod, and producing poos and wees. Hurrah! This will be easy, I thought...how wrong I was...
Since then, he has been extremely reluctant to sit on the potty or toilet (we've got a special toilet seat) to wee or poo. We have made some progress as he knows when he needs a wee or poo. He may not actually say it but he makes it clear by his behaviour i.e. jigging around, asking to go to bed (he still gets a nappy for nap and bedtime so by asking to go to bed, he's really asking for a nappy), asking to be changed etc.
However, he just won't sit on the potty or toilet. We've tried bribery with chocolate buttons, stickers on a reward chart, playing with my ipod (huge treat) or watching TV or having a story while he sits there. Nope.
He's managing to hold it for ages, but gets increasingly uncomfortable and grumpy and eventually has an accident (which is always dealt with in the proper "oh dear, never mind" fashion) He doesn't like accidents, especially poo accidents but likes it more than the idea of going on the potty. Sometimes we do persuade him to sit down and he produces a tiny bit, or does nothing at all and gets back up again, only to have a big accident 5 mins later. I'm trying not to remind him too much as he gets annoyed with being asked all the time but when it's bloody obvious he needs to go I can't just ignore it!
Any ideas? I'm not keen to put him back in nappies as he is making progress (in that he can hold it, and knows when he needs to go) and I feel like going back to nappies would be going backwards. He's at nursery 3 days a week and doing the same kind of thing there. I think they may be pushing him a bit much though but I don't know really.
It's really frustrating - he is physically capable of doing it, he just won't!
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3 year old knows when he's pooing and weeing but refuses the potty/toilet...
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BornToFolk · 10/10/2010 19:49
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