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Come on toddler mums - - -share your potty training secrets!!!

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WhipMeIndiana · 17/06/2008 20:12

dd is 2 on sunday...going to stick her in pants tomorrow

any tips?
what should I expect?
any big no no's?

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Happylander · 12/10/2011 16:06

I started sitting and playing with my DS on the potty from about 11 months and cheered every time he did something wish was obviously more luck than anything else but it did get him to notice what he had just done.

I went full on for it when he was 19/20 months and he has been dry since apart from night time.

My mum said she had us all sitting on the potty from the moment we could sit up and we were all trained by 12 months. I do think real nappies has a lot to do with it and also just making the time to get them to realise what a potty is. I used real nappies and just couldn't face going any longer changing and washing them.

BikeRunSki · 12/10/2011 16:10

2 sounds very young, but I have a boy.
I left it till he was 2.6 (I had been ill for 2 months, but was also waiting for a long week end and warmer weather). He got the idea of not wetting his pants, but not weeing in his potty - he just held it in all day. After 4 days of this he went back in nappies. A week later (and another long week end) he said "pants today" and that was that.

GuillotinedMaryLacey · 12/10/2011 16:12

Leave it till she's a bit older, take nappy off, hand over pants. Job done. Possibly not what you wanted to hear but I can never understand why people would rather sit indoors for a fortnight stressing about it than just leave it for a bit till it's easy (not being arsey although it sounds like I am!)

montbazens · 12/10/2011 18:45

Half naked is definately the way!!!! DS was naked all through (wet) summer here , positively encouraged weeing in the hedge/ garden and the novelty was so great he was fine after a week! woo hoo !! I did use pull ups for a bit but i think they just confused him .LolaLadybird I think your comment about potty training 20 yrs ago very true!!.. nappies so super efficient now that they dont even know they are wet... being wet and uncomfortable is a definate incentive to get those pants down quick smart !!! The main thing though is to not make too much of a fuss if it doesnt all get in the potty... we had 3 days of every receptacle available being wee'd in ... including my bedside water glass and .. wait for it..... a snorkel !!!!!!!!! very logical for boys me thinks !!!!

cherub59 · 12/10/2011 22:00

Reward for no accidents not for everytime they succeed (do this after a couple of weeks or an unobtainable target)

Take dc to buy some AMAZING pants of her choice - even if you hate them!!!!

calypsoblue · 13/10/2011 10:17

I got a musical potty that played a tune when it got wet,ds loved it

Ghostdoll · 15/10/2011 18:14

Thanks babyjane and veryone else. I am going to see the health visitor first I think. she is an exceptionally bright child and I think she is just being obstinate on purpose! but will have her checked out first before I consider my next move. onwards and upwards to the 8th month...!

angie66 · 25/10/2011 19:44

My son is 3 years old and so afraid of sitting on the potty and refuses to sit on it. He can only pee. How am i going to convince him to sit on? This is really new for him, shall i let him do the number 2 in his pants?

Brynn · 25/10/2011 21:20

I'm not sure that leaving it until the child is ready is always the right thing to do. I took that advice, and I'm still waiting for DS (3.1) to actually want to get rid of his nappies. He hates his pants! Even the character pants that I let him choose in the shop. He will wear them, but not without a long grumble and protesting for his nappy. He's also got issues with sitting on the toilet to poo. He knows when he needs to, since he runs off to hide, but screams if anyone tries to go near him.

This week, since it's half-term and no pre-school, I've embarked upon a cold turkey, no more nappies approach. So far, one wee in the potty on day 2, everything else in the pants. Ho hum.

With DD, I am seriously considering EC. I never ever want to have to do potty training again.

narmada · 26/10/2011 17:19

I am in the leave-it-till-later camp. DD was 3 when she ditched the nappies and it took half a day and one (wee) accident. She was dry at night about a month later. I have a baby boy and definitely won't be trying to potty train until he is beyond ready. I hear it's harder with boys

IIRC there is no point forcing the night-time dryness issue, it's all to do with the production of a hormone which inhibits urine production at night - and that comes about as a child matures.

brettgirl2 · 27/10/2011 19:22

I think it depends on the child and little triggers tbh. There are loads of stories on here of people having nightmares trying to potty train 3 year olds. I was thinking I was going to have to leave it till later dd refused to poo on the potty and got quite upset about it. Pretty pointless pressing that one. I am also pregnant and they say not within 3 months of baby arriving. Then we went to some friends for the weekend dd 2.4 picked up on the mild disapproval of their 3 year old about the fact she was wearing a nappy. She started demanding nappy off so she could go to the toilet. You cant not seize that moment can you?

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