DS is just over 3. For ages now we've been getting him used to using a potty and/or toilet seat. Sometimes it would be a struggle to get him to sit on it (a musical ITNG book helped keep him there). Us and the childminders started properly potty training him in about October time and spent weeks taking him to the potty/toilet throughout the day and he got a smiley face on a chart for each pee and poo he did. He was doing really well and hardly needed any pull ups. Then he seemed to regress and refused to even sit on the potty. He's always had a chocolate button for 'results' but then, when you said "do you want to go pee on the potty, you might get a chocolate button" he would reply "I don't want a chocolate button" (how do you argue with that?!) and any attempt to get him on the potty/toilet would be met with screaming, kicking and going stiff.
We've kept at it and tried to make an effort, these last two days we decided to put him in his days of the week dinosaur pants. We've explained that the dinosaur doesn't want to be weed on and he needs to tells us when he needs to pee/poo but nothing (we've been saying the same thing for months now!). He's been through about 6 pairs of pants/trousers each day and pees within about 30 mins each time. The problem is he's back at the childminder tomorrow. I can't send him with 5 spare pairs of pants and trousers every day even if she does have time to take him to pee every 20 mins or so.
We thought about just doing pants at the weekend but will that confuse him too much. He just doesn't seem to understand and/or care.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.
Potty training
Any ideas on where I go from here?
12 replies
ICantDecideOnAUsername · 04/01/2015 22:48
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.