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help with potty training please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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lillaura123 · 03/08/2007 09:06

MY LITTLE BOY IS 2YO and i believe he is ready for potty training my dd was so easy and he seems to be the opposite - he will sit on potty when he feels like it and aways does a wee - he started doing the same on the toilet but has no developed some sort of fear of it now, he knows when he needs a wee or no2 but i cannot convince him to use potty help please

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Lizzzombie · 03/08/2007 17:59

Dont panic but my next door neigbour has a 3 YO little boy who still isnt potty trained!
My sister has just taken her 2 YO twin boys shopping to choose their own potties. Did you do that? I think its supposed to help a bit. Goodluck.

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lillaura123 · 03/08/2007 18:03

thank you il give that a try

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indiasmum · 03/08/2007 18:16

a tip i got from my friend who has 3 kids (as i do too but am rubbish at potty training!) is she has sheets of special stickers her dd chose. when she goes on the potty, she gets to stick a sticker on it! she seemed to be dry and clean pretty much all the time within 2 weeks! good luck, i am going through it with my dd at the moment but find i am rubbish at sticking with it and end up putting a nappy on her for ease and convemnience for me. def want to have mastered it before sept!

Franniban · 03/08/2007 21:01

we are just starting with dd, 2, and she is not really getting the hang of it, where as ds got it within a few days, I though girls were supposed to be easier than boys. Hope she gets the hang of it before Sept when we drive down to France!

BelindaG · 03/08/2007 22:25

In my experience the best way to potty train is to go "cold turkey" so no training nappies at all. Make a big thing of going out to buy big boy pants and put him straight in them. Tell him that he's a big boy now and doesn't need to wear nappies any more except when he goes to bed. Maybe have a ritual where he puts his nappies away into a cupboard. Then spend a couple of days at home with him with the potty nearby at all times. Sit him on it regularly and give him books to read or other entertainment. Lots of praise and stickers each time he does a wee in the potty. After a couple of days, you should be able to take him out. Take a change of pants/trousers and if possible a portable potty. Don't tell him off if he has an accident, just explain that he must tell you when he needs to go otherwise he will be wet and uncomfortable. You can always put a disposable changing mat in his pushchair/car seat. Did this with DD and she was trained in 4 days. Good luck!

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lillaura123 · 06/08/2007 12:39

thanks all - going to go with the cold turkey thing, along with putting stickers on te potty - we went out and bought him some undies with trucks, cars etc on them so fingers crossed - goonna do it tmrw

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bubblagirl · 06/08/2007 12:47

hi i had to try twice to potty train my son he loved it but novelty wore off so i left him for a while and tried again i was just getting him to sit on and really praised him for sitting on then done a smily face chart for just sitting on potty eventually he loved it and within 2 days was taking himself to the potty he may not be quite ready as yet just don't get frustrated and keep praising "well done for nearly sitting on now try and sit on and get smily face"

put pants on under nappy as they hate the wet feeling then say right you best sit on potty and i'll change you

i was lucky as my son was clearly ready and was just taking himself good luck

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lillaura123 · 06/08/2007 12:49

i understand that - cause my lil girl was suddenly ready one day at 2.5yo and she just took herself off to toilet and did it !!

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bubblagirl · 06/08/2007 13:07

i think boys are genuinely a bit wary and its new to them to i think they dont like change lol

but now is a good time just to get him used to potty as my ds is 2.3 and takes himself now isnt completely dry as yet but he tries and i dont have to tell him he just knows so just keep trying to get him used to it and he will do it its not unusual for boys to be 3+ before potty trained good luck

samanthar · 06/08/2007 13:54

i have boy girl twins
she did it by the book in 3 days at two and half ..he refused point blank until a week before his 4th b-day. we tried at 2 and half and three anf three and half but he was upset and hanging onto wees all day and then doing them at 7pm in night nappy. i just said it was his b-day and he cd have his main present but that he wd need to do wees in the potty if he wanted any other little ones from us. i know this is very mean but i was advised by doctor freind not to leave it til this summer as the pressure of starting full time reception still in nappies wd be worse. it worked and he was dry in 3 days, only ever had one accident and now 4 mths later goes standing up and is dry at night whereas freinds with boys who trained at three are still battling for dry nights. he still needs the seat insert thing for poos as is frightened of falling down toilet

TheGoddessBlossom · 06/08/2007 20:48

I did almost eaxactly what Belinda has posted with my DS1 when he was just 2 and he was dry day and night within a month.

vixma · 06/08/2007 20:57

When I potty train I turn it into a game. I know this sounds silly, but if they do poo or wee I say, say bye bye to poo or wee its going to toilet land. I know I sound like I have the mentality of a 12 year old but this along with hourly trips to the loo or potty ( to set routine) takes a time but it can work. It is a nightmare toilet traning. Turn it into a routine and a game which they find fun to take away the scary parts of toilet training (as the loo can look as if it is going to eat you watching it suck things down when your little). good luck!

angie0201 · 06/08/2007 21:01

Hi i've had a nightmare with my DD (2.5) she was p trained in the first week never asked or anything just did it but since has gone back to weeing on floor, on month 3 after trying to put in nappies and with the help of stars and reward charts think have cracked it star and rewards def the way to go IMO

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indiasmum · 07/08/2007 18:48

had first full day out with dd (2.7) today in knickers. she did a poo in a pair this morning at about 9.15am and since then has been in just one pair of knickers! 3 wees on the potty and i have started giving her a sticker per wee/poo done in potty. when her potty is covered in stickers i am going to buy her a present. she has already chosen what she wants and it appears to be spurring her on. yay!!!

angie0201 · 08/08/2007 21:18

eightytwenty i believe that what you said is spot on, when my dd went back i said to her you are a big girl you can pull your pants down now on your own and go over to the potty on your own, instead of me helping her to do it just to get her there quicker. now she has the control she isn't even telling me she needs a wee just going to the potty on her own, stickers are a good incentive as well but i believe now she is doing it on her own it has helped her feel so much more independent

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