Gina Ford Potty training in a week questions?

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I have been reading GF book on potty training in a week. I am a bit about a few things she says like you should not begin potty training until they can eat most of their food without intervention, and should be able to dress themselves wtf! My dd 3.2, does do some dressing herself with a bit of intervention, but it will be likely that she will be nearly 4-4.5 before she will do it on her own (she is developmentally a bit young for her age). Does that mean that she is not ready to potty train then till she can dress herself properly!

I have been training dd though slow we are making progress, she is doing most of her wees in the potty, and today sat on the potty to do a wee a few times, but was not able to take her pants down, hence she got wet pants a few times. That i will have to work on a bit. I know that either, myself, or her dad or her teachers at nursery will be on hand to help her in the toilet until she is able to be more independent. Sorry for the long post

Children are all different and don't all develop abilities in the same order: you do what you feel is right for your dd.

Both of my dds were very late (i.e. much later than "average") to walk. This of course meant they were less able to dress/undress etc. dd1 potty trained at 2.1 years (she had only been walking for about 3 months so couldn't balance/co-ordinate to take pants down etc)

Anyway, similar with dd2. She is too small in height to climb on to loo or be independent with pants, she is 2.8 years, trained for a few months now.

So, just use it as a guideline. Ime if the child is amenable to potty training, can communicate his/her need for the toilet, then it will be fine. With our dds they just asked the nearest adult (i.e. parent or nursery worker) to help. It is highly unlikely that any 2-3 year old would be left alone anyway and in a position where an adult was not available to help.

Thanks everyone, dd is doing well getting there slowely and is very proud when she does a wee in the potty takes it to the loo and flushes it down. So i will carry on as it is working, to go back to nappies because she cant take her pants down yet and dress herself would put everything back and would not be good really.

Ds still needs help with using cutlery- he is nearly 10. He needed help with his buttons until age 8. But he was potty trained perfectly happily at 2.

Sounds like your dd is doing fine.

I toilet trained ds at about 3.4 and he couldn't dress himself (he still can't - he just has no interest in trying). I just left him with no pants on for the first few days until he got the hang of it and once he did he would tell me when he wanted to go to the toilet and I would pull down his pants. Soon after that he started doing it himself - although he still doesn't like me dressing him in trousers with a proper button and fly for preschool because he can't do them up himself.

Thanks everyone its very reassuring, yes my mum told me that i was a late dresser about 5/6 as i had no interest and found aspects of it hard.