AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhh!!! Potty training.

[duchesse]

Thank you. I think I got that off my mind.

After 3 weeks of the aforementioned, I just cracked today and put her back in nappies.

Have spent 40% of waking hours in last 3 weeks mopping up puddles of wee and worse, changing wet pants and trousers, cleaning upholstery and processing washing. We are almost always on the brink of running out of pants and trousers despite having an insane number (probably 2 dozen pants). I am exhausted and there seems to be no end in sight, it gets worse every day. Today we've have 8x accidents and maybe 2 wees in potty.

At the beginning she was doing really well. She knows how to stop mid-flow, can hold on, knows how to get her things up and down, doesn't want to have wet pants, etc etc yadda yadda yadda. It's EXACTLY the same as with the first 3- I don't know why I expected any different.

She's 2 years 6 months and she will probably not be properly dry until she's over 6. I mean that- that was the pattern my older ones took.

my little boys the same :( i strongly suggest a glass of wine :} x

Awwww. Try again when she's 3, or nearly.

Hi, just a thought - have you tried rewarding her? My Son had no interest in using the potty and seemed quite happy in wearing wet pants!! I then got a reward chart and every time he wee'd or poo'd he got a sticker - he loved using the potty from then on :-) When the sticker chart was full we took a trip to the toy shop!

She's not really into the whole sticker chart thing. We do instant Malteser rewards after every successful visit to the potty.

IIWY, I'd leave it for a couple of months. Unless there is a compelling reason why she needs to be dry.
I started with my DD when she was 2.6, she loved the idea, but not the reality. FF two months and she was dry during the day in about three days.

rip- she needs to be dry by September as she's going to nursery in France for a term. She will be just 3 by then (27th August birthday). I wanted to start now because I am acutely aware that it took my children many many months to get the hang of it and I didn't want to be starting too soon before when she needs to be dry iyswim.

IDSWYM, but my experience was the same as ripishere's. I tried for a few weeks - it was hopeless. Put DS back in nappies for a month, tried again and it just worked. Can't really offer any advice because I didn't do anything different, so I suppose he was just ready.

That's ages away. Chill out for a month or so then try her again. Hopefully the weather will be warmer and provide more opportunities for bare naked training.

IME, nurseries in France accept pull ups (they'd rather that than wet clothes), so long as you say it's just in case (as opposed to not being completely trained).

I might get away with that- my friend is the aide-maternelle at the nursery so she'd be doing any changing anyway!

Is it a crèche or an école maternelle? Because if it's a crèche they don't have to be potty trained at all (our crèche have even said they can do the potty training!!!)

It's a maternelle class attached to a primary school.

I tried training ds, he is 2.6, he has peed everywhere except the potty, but he knows that is what it is for, he regulars says wee wee potty, and will sit on it for ages, get off and pee on when carpet/sofa/chair! Giving up now!!