Ignominous potted history thus far:
Child 1: Took him out of nappies at 2. Proceeded to make his way through 10 pairs of pants a day. Would hide behind doors to pee on the floor rather than use the potty or loo. Not really "potty-trained" as such (as in willing to go the loo and use it as needed vs being forcibly taken) until about 4-5- still not really fully continent by reception class at 4yr 2 m. Still wetting at night at nearly 10. Big (parental) FAIL
Child 2: Got Chicken Pox at 15 months, including spots under nappy. Decided nappies were for sore-bottomed losers and wanted to use potty instead. Very reliable for 1 year, then started regressing. Had her fully investigated- GP, paediatrician, scans on kidneys, repeat screening for infections at 3 as she was basically just weeing in her pants all the time. Nothing ever found wrong. Even tried acupuncture. She was never really dry in the daytime again until about 7-8- always smelled of wee when she came out of school- and dry night-time at 8-9. Big parental FAIL
Child 3: Can't really remember but essentially started potty training in the summer she turned 2 (you'd have thought we'd have learned by then). She was not really dry in the daytime until 6, and night-time at similar age. Pretty much a FAIL
Incidentally, the older children all became dry at night in the year we moved to Canada. Who knows why- we went from washing 3x sets of bedding a night/wearing pull-ups, to nothing. Has been bliss ever since.
Child 4 is nearly 2 yr 1 month. All the bulletins I get from those moronic forums say "Your Child May Be Nearly Ready to Potty-Train" followed by a long list of signs, none of which she is exhibiting, nor did any of her siblings. She has No idea when she is about to do a poo, No idea she is about to do a wee. If she happens to wee on her feet, she still views it with utterly detached interest. No idea it's coming from her at all. Not waking up from naps etc dry as far as I'm aware. No real interest in using the potty.
So, to avoid another major parental FAIL, What do I do? How long do I wait? How long realistically can you keep them in nappies? How come we were all potty-trained at 13 months back in the day and I can't even get mine dry by 5? (although to be honest I wet the bed very late and was not very daytime reliable even at 6 although I got smacked for wetting my pants and probably focused more on it) Is it hereditary to this extent?
Any tips? People saying "oh my little so and so took a week at 18 mo, I just did x , x and x" I have never found all that helpful (understatement).
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Potty-training. Are my children just hideously lazy?
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duchesse · 17/09/2011 09:21
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