Potty Training Twins

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Anyone done it? Tips please?

2 potties or one?

Get the boy to sit down or stand up, same with the girl really. (Always handy for girls to be able to pee stood up!)

Going at their speed but in need of some sage advice.

Thanks

hi i have 3 year old twins. started with my daughter on their 2nd birthday. waited with my son till he was 2 and 3 months as he wasn't ready and I didn't want to stress him. bought 2 potties. my DS is still sitting on the small potty and my DD is on the big toilet now. it took around a week to ten days for both of them to be trained. . before i even started potty traing i always took them to the toilet with me and was preparing them that they are big kids now and big kids don't do wee and poo in nappies. plenty of praising, rewards and lots of patients.
have a look at my previous post on potty training. good luck and happy new year!!!

A potty each and get them both sitting down to start with, making the boy ensure that his willy is tucked down! Absolutely go at their pace and Cbeebies is a great tool for them to sit on potties in front of.

Good luck. I still have horrific memories of my flat running with piss when I tried to train my twin boys, about 9.5 years ago! Every time I turned my back for more than a second one or other of them would do a colossal wee in a previously pristine spot. I think twinmummy30 was very wise with her divide and rule strategy of training each child separately. Hope it goes well for you, ffc.:)

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rivers of piss, nice name for the new house!

Also agree with twinmummy30 - divide and conquer is the way forward. I trained DS first because he seemed more receptive and eager to accept instruction (DD complained that Big Girl Knickers bit her bottom, she would fall in the potty, she never did wees etc etc).

I didn't want to go down the route of pull-ups as we'd already left it quite late to train them, so I made sure he understood the concept of what to do in a potty and then we had the Big Nappy Countdown ('Oooh - only three more sleeps and you'll be a big boy who doesn't wear nappies!').

I armed myself with the most giant bag of chocolate buttons you've ever seen. Oh, and I bought about a million pairs of gender-neutral Tesco Value pants and tracksuit bottoms for the inevitable million accidents per day.

The main advantage of the divide and conquer concept was that DD saw DS getting lots of prise and buttons and decided that Big Girl Knickers possibly weren't such a bad thing after all and was a lot more receptive when I came to train her!

Good luck!

I did dd first in aug when she was 2.5 and am going to tackle ds2 in the next couple of weeks as we have discussed that when he is three it is time for big boy pants. He has said he wants to be a baby forever though... We have two potties so can have them in more than one place at first. No downstairs loo in our house which does not help. Bribery is good. Also found portable potty good for dd. Barely used for ds1 but he was well past three when i finally got him out of nappies. Good luck.

I was going to start at christmas with my two but being pregnant with the 2nd set has resulted in me not being able to reach the floor anymore to clean up accidents so got to wait until these 2 are born to potty train them. We have bought them a potty each and will just see what happens. My son was 2 years 9 months when he was ready and the girls are 2.5 now and I think they are ready its me thats holding them back which is a shame.