DD is 22 months so I think in fact I will wait to begin 'formal' potty training, as it were, in the warmer spring/summer months after she turns 2, so in May-ish this year when she is 2 years 2 months.
However she has just begun for the first time to start telling me when she has done a poo, tugging at her nappy and even occasionally saying 'change nappy'.
So I'm wondering about how/when to begin gently introducing the idea of the potty, even if I still don't actually suggest she starts using it for a while yet.
At the moment I'm just congratulating her for being a 'big girl' when she tells me she has a dirty nappy, and I occasionally mention that her older cousin (whom she worships) has started doing her wee wees in the toilet... but what if anything can I do to begin to head in the potty direction?
Should I be taking her with me to the loo when I do a wee, as often as poss, so she can get the general idea?
Should I put a potty in the bathroom and casually mention what she might use it for eventually?
Or should I do nothing until we're actually ready to properly 'start'?
I'm just sensitive to the fact that DD is quite a strong-willed and also simulataneoulsy anxious sort of toddler (even by normal toddler standards) and the way things always work best with her is when she sort of 'discovers' them for herself IYSWIM. is we have the least resistance when she thinks something is her idea and when she has decided it is ok to do it, rather than when she feels mummy is 'making' her do something...
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beginning to think about potty training now... best tips for a v v gentle and painless introduction?
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Emeraldgirl2 · 15/01/2015 14:36
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