Not sure how to get started?

[crazychemist]

Hi there!

DD is 22 months. She's starting nursery in September and will also have one day a fortnight with DH from then (until now she's been with my DMum when I'm at work). I'm a teacher and am on summer holidays from now until the first week of September, so thought this was a good time to give potty training a go!

We've had the potty a couple of weeks so she could get used to seeing it. She knows what it's for, she has an older friend who has been potty training a little while so my DD has seen her use one.

Today was day 1. DD will sit on it with a nappy still on and do a wee! But if I take the nappy down and try to encourage her, she just says "weeeeee" and does nothing! She waits until she has a nappy on until she does anything!

I really don't want to go cold turkey with nappies yet! My hope was to just give her lots of praise and a sticker on her chart each time something ended up in the potty. But how do I do this if nothing ever goes in there??? I don't mind if this takes a while.

[attackofthe50footwoman]

I think it's a good start, just don't push but let her sit as you are doing.

Maybe put her on at bathtime and see if she wee's then.

She's still pretty young yet.

[crazychemist]

Cheers attack. She is a bit young, but she was so excited to see her slightly older friend doing it and getting lots of praise, so we thought we'd give it a low pressure attempt.

Day 4, only one wee actually in the potty (and one on the floor next to it!), but she now goes to it, lifts the lid, does a wee and puts the lid back down......all still wearing the nappy! Key step missing :-)