Am I mad to toilet train before moving house? And any other tips for relocating with kids please?

[Elisannah]

I had no plans to toilet train my 2yr old before moving house but I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm going to need to! She's started to rip off her nappy because she doesn't like the feeling of the wee or poo against her. She also just managed two hours with no nappy and two wees in a potty.

We move in 6-8 weeks, do you think this is far enough away? I'm beginning to wonder whether it would be easier to do it before because in September we'll have school runs to do with dd1?!

We've never moved with children so would love to know whether this is a crazy idea...and any other advice you have for relocating with a 4&2 year old?

Thank you!

Do it now -if she's ready (sounds like she's about there) it will only take a few days

When you do move take a bag of their special things in the car with you and unpack that first when you get there -familiarity will make it 'home' very quickly

I would try now if she is showing the signs. If she takes to it quickly then 6-8 weeks is a good amount of time to get it more established. But dont put too much pressure on her or u-if it turns out she is not taking to it well then just stop and try again after u are all settled in new house.

As for moving-we did it with a 2.5yr old. Are ur DC's going to be around on the day? Or can they go to nursery/ relatives? We deliberately moved on a day dd was at nursery. We instructed the moving company to load all her furniture and belongings on the van last, and to unload them first at the other end. Once her furniture was in, I cracked on with getting her room ready for wen she came home from nursery so it was as normal as possible. Tried to make the living areas as decent as possible and the basically dumped all other boxes in our room/the loft. Then when she came home we made it a big adventure to explore her new house, and asked her if everything in her room was where she wanted it. Then made her favourite tea while watching her favourite TV show.

She coped really well. Good luck with the potty training and the move.