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Potty training

My 3 year old girl

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Mummytomissp · 28/01/2015 16:41

Hi mums
I have a 3 year old girl and on Monday when I took her to nursery I sent her in knickers and she went on the toilet without a problem.
She didn't have no accidents while in nursery but at home today we've had one accident but completely refusing to go on the potty or toilet.she's holding her water too but dances around and not sitting still which tells me she needs to wee. We can get her to sit on the potty but she's not doing
Anything.
Any mums with any advice I'd
Really appreciate it

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RavioliOnToast · 29/01/2015 14:54

I've only just cracked toilet training with DD, I had tried star charts, material type rewards (magazines/toys etc), praise, being 'cross' or 'unhappy' eventually I have up.for a.few.weeks. took the potty away, took the star chart away and didn't even.mention it. left it about a month and then the only thing that worked for us was one day, I went right through the house and binned all her nappies, then when she woke up I took her nappy straight off and made her use the loo, she asked for a nappy and I said I couldn't get her any now, they don't do them in really big girl size. I basically said to her that she didn't have a choice now, the shops didn't have nappies in for her. She had 3 accidents in the first week, I left her in her knickers and leggings/tights while I cleaned the wee up (so for about 5 minutes at a time) and she hated it. I never punished her for weeing though. And I prompted her every 30 minutes or so to see if she needed one and said 'well I'm going up for the loo anyway so why don't you come aswell and try' so it wasn't as though I was pressuring her. I'm currently pregnant and lifting her on and off the toilet killed me so we got some 'keter toilet training steps' from argos and they were amazing! Even with a little step stool she was still a bit small to get on and off the toilet herself so when we got these they gave her loads of independence.

This was in november and DD is now dry through the night also, she's not 3 until March either.

I know some people won't agree with the 'you have no choice' method but that's what works with my DD.

good luck!

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