I am attempting potty training my two and a half year old DS.
I've gently introduced him to the toilet since he was very little.
He knows we go to the toilet to do poo poo and pee pee ( sorry ).. if I say, where do we do poo poo ? He replies- in the toilet. He also says poo poo to me sometimes when he's about to do something or when he passes gas ( sorry again everyone ).
I've tried to be really relaxed about it. So when he says something about it, I try to encourage him to go. Sometimes I even try to take his nappy off on those days where he talks to me about it. Recently though, when I take him to the actual toilet, he starts screaming and doesn't want to go. Or when I say, come on, let's go to the toilet, he cries and screams.
I think it may have been caused by an incident a few months ago, where I thought he was kind of ready to do a poo and there was a bit of an explosion and it went everywhere and upset him. ( I never screamed or anything, but he got upset about it whilst trying to clean him up etc ). I could be wrong, but I feel like it may have been traumatising for him.
On the other hand, he now hates having his nappy changed and cries and screams during. He does however tell me quite often when he has gone in his nappy and even told me to change him before.
Any advice ? Is he just not ready ? I'm putting hardly any pressure on it, except that I talk about it to him and when I see him going, I tell him we do that in the toilet, to which he replies ' No ' . I then say, do you want to come to the toilet with mummy ? And he again says ' NO '.