Ds will be 3 in June. He's a lovely bright boy but has delayed expressive language. He can communicate but is quite unclear and gets worse when tired. We also have 1y dd. Busy house! Ds was showing signs of being ready, shouting about poos esp!
Anyway, we started potty training two weeks ago. My husband and I took some time off to get started and well, the going is very mixed. Basically, he's quite keen for the poos to go in the potty but doesn't seem to give a flying hoot about the wees wees. Occasionally, he shows discomfort when he has wet himself but mostly not, you notice a puddle on the floor or a wet patch. We encourage him to sit on the potty but we've tried not to insist or create a battle about it. If he does sit, he will generally do a wee happily enough. He is pleased with himself when he does this.
We've tried showing various toys saying they want to use the potty (he enjoys this and now does it himself including sound effects!), we've talked about how uncomfortable he must be when he wets himself and how he should try and do it in the potty, but essentially, my read is he just doesn't care enough.
Now all that said he does sometimes say he wants to do a wee wee.
I'm tired of it. My feeling is that if he was really ready for this he would be doing bettter by now. I'm a bit stressed by it too (unnecessarily so I know!) and possibly I'm projecting my own stress and tiredness in wanting to quit it. My husband and childminder think he is doing ok.
Any views much appreciated.
Thanks.