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AIBU?

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Original poster

potty training is the hardest thing to do.

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McHappyPants2012 · 23/03/2012 00:05

Plan of action:- booked the time off work notify nursey and then crack ahead with it.

DD is ready, uses the potty or toilet but come tuesday when i am in work it always sets he back.

so iabu to think potty training is the hardest thing to do

OP posts:

echt · 23/03/2012 10:18

It's a piece of piss. MY CM did it for me.

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McHappyPants2012 · 23/03/2012 11:10

DD is 2years 9 months old.

they have potties in nursery, perhaps it is just a busy environment and is more concern at playing than pottying. we have been training now for a month

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 23/03/2012 11:18

DS backslides whilst at nursery, he's just too busy having fun and forgets. Nursery have agreed to take him to the toilet every 45 minutes for now. No/very rare accidents at home. Maybe you could ask them to take her at set intervals?

trikken · 23/03/2012 11:32

for us it was a nightmare trying to remain breezy and calm gets hard when they still arnt clean and dry at five. Ds just wasnt interested. at nearly six it has finally just clicked for him. just started with dd and she is a lot more willing to use the potty and toilet so hoping she will catch on quite a bit sooner than ds did.

vess · 23/03/2012 14:11

When DS was two, his nursery expected him to go straight from nappies to being fully independant, taking himself to an adult-sized toilet and sorting himself out. Didn't even like to remind him to go. It took months and months of accidents, but he got there.
By the way, the worst thing to do once you've started is to go back to nappies,or use nappies/pullups some of the time. It confuses them and sets them back.

Hoebag · 23/03/2012 14:13

YANBU

having this problem atm i think its more down to the child, my ds has now decided that telling us he's a baby everytime we try is a fool proof way of making sure we lerave him in nappies.

HipHopOpotomus · 23/03/2012 14:17

YABU - it's a piece of piss

ReallyTired · 23/03/2012 14:48

"YABU - it's a piece of piss"

It is only a piece of piss if the piss actually goes in the pot. Otherise potty training is a soggy and smelly nightmare. Potty training can also be a crock of shit at times.

It is like learning any other developmental skill. Some children find it hard to learn to speak, some children find it hard to learn to walk. I think if potty training is really getting you down then its worth speaking to someone.

There are no easy answers. It may well be best to go back to nappies and that is personal decision.

Whoneedssleepanyway · 23/03/2012 14:52

it is certainly no walk in the park with DD2, we are on our second attempt after we aborted a month ago after 3 days where we notched up 17 wees on the floor and none in the potty or loo.

so far today we have had 3 wee accidents and 1 poo accident and no successes, she has weed and poo-ed on the loo at nursery but as soon as we try to take the nappy away she doesn't comply.

no idea what to do with her as she is clearly ready and can do wees and poos on the loo but doesn't seem to want to

Species8472 · 23/03/2012 15:09

Gave up with DD (2.8) after 2 days and 20 pairs of wet pants, nothing in the potty. It was her idea....but she was only interested in wearing pants, not the actual peeing in the potty bit. Will try again soon, but am dreading it.

RaPaPaPumPumBootyMum · 23/03/2012 18:47

Have also given up with DS1 [nearly 3]. Have been attempting potty training since he was just over 2. Initially good success with getting him to sit on potty, he was motivated and enjoyed having Pirate Pete and various other potty training stories read to him.

But he has never ever gotten a poo or wee in the potty. And over time he has become demotivated and resistant to using the potty or toilet. I think he really feels he can't do it . And although I have tried to stay casual and calm about the whole business I probably have transmitted some anxiety to him.

I feel I am surrounded by people who all trained their children at around or even before 2. My mother trained myself and my brother before we were 2. Everyone seems a bit bemused at the trouble I am having.

It is reassuring that not everyone finds potty training to be a piece of piss

ReallyTired · 23/03/2012 19:03

"I feel I am surrounded by people who all trained their children at around or even before 2. My mother trained myself and my brother before we were 2. Everyone seems a bit bemused at the trouble I am having"

Or are you just surrounded by pathological liars. Wearing pants does not mean a child is toilet trained.

Meglet · 23/03/2012 19:06

yanbu. Although in the end I didn't do mine until they were just over 3.

I hated it as I refused to stay in the house all day and kept putting it off. And I don't like having to take them into public toilets now they're in pants.

KalSkirata · 23/03/2012 19:13

tis right now. dd asked to potty train. She is 8, no speech, quadriplegic so needs hoisting. So everytime she thinks she needs to go there's a palavar to hoist her into wheelchair, rush to bathroom, hoist her onto toilet seat and then she says.....
'No'
Sob

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