My lovely son is 3.1 and has made almost no steps towards potty training.
It took him a loooong time to ever begin to show awareness of a poo in his nappy (2.8?). Up till then he was perfectly happy to wander around with one there, with absolutely no apparent discomfort at all.
We have a potty upstairs
We bought a Baby Bjorn potty chair
We have a toddler seat
We have step-stools
We have 'Pirate Pete's potty'.
We have 'Everybody Poos' (this one makes even me feel a bit queasy!)
We have pants - which he likes, but just gets wet/pooey
We have offered chocolate buttons
We have him at nursery some days a week, where other children are using loo
We have him come into the loo whenever we go, which he adores
BUT nothing has ever gone in the potty! He is very reluctant to even sit on it at all and his little bum has never even gone near the toddler loo seat!
It is just as if he sees it as totally unrelated to him, nothing to do with him at all? He just does not want to do it and is completely unbothered by any talk of 'being a big boy', 'grown up pants' etc. There is absolutely no interest in using the potty, even though he knows there might be a reward involved, lots of praise etc.
He is bright and lovely but quite stubborn. At the moment we are just taking the pressure off and leaving it be, but I wondered if anyone had any useful suggestions?
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BranchingOut · 19/10/2012 22:15
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