How long till they ask for potty unprompted?

[MichelleM]

Started potty training DS after he asked to use the potty and he will happily do pees and poos in it. He goes onto unprompted first thing in the morning, before his nap and before and after his bath (these are all the times when he is only partly dressed). However he only asks for the potty during the rest of the day when he has started to pee a bit himself first. He then finishes his pee off in the potty. I am really pleased he has done this well, but wondering when will he realise a pee is about to come in time to ask for the potty first? He doesnt respond well to me trying to put him on the potty when I think he's due a pee, and dont want to force the issue. This usually results in 1 to 2 accidents a day. What was your experience & any tips?

How old is he? I am no expert as just going through this with dd1 at the mo. She does ask for the potty (or at least yells WEE WEE or POO at the top if her voice) and this started after about 4 days I think. It has been 3 weeks and she is 100% in the house, but not at all out of it. HTH

It took us a couple of months from the start of potty training. She is 2.8 yo and just announces that she needs the lo. strip off ALL her clothes then goes and uses the toilet (we have one of those padded seats in each loo. She no longer uses the potty and has gone straight to the toilet after just a few weeks of potty.

He is 2.5 yrs. We have only been training for about a week so I know it is early days. Just looking for light at the end of the tunnel!

Just training my ds3 who is 2.6 and he took about 2 weeks before he began to ask for the potty. It depends on their readiness though .

Helsi - what did you do in the first couple of mths training...do you keep prompting and so hopefully avoid accidents, or do you let them have accidents in the hope that it will eventually click?

Keep prompting - even insist if you are fairly sure there is something there to do - otherwise you will have so many puddles!

If you ask a child if they want to wee, they often say no and then 2 minutes later flood the place. Trust that you know better than the child!

thanks Lonelymum. No is his favourite word at the minute!

If he goes unprompted when he is partly dressed, why not leave him 'bottomless' (or commando!) whilst you are in the house? My DSs were the same, wearing pants was too much like wearing a nappy so they tended to forget until they actually started to wee. I found that given them a period of time to set the 'using the potty' rountine really helped before I tried to introduce pants.

HTH

DD always says 'no thankyou' if I ask lol even if she is jigging obviously holding on around. I just sit her down then and she goes. I have sort of found a bit of a pattern and try to remind her if she hasn't gone for a while. She does get annoyed with me though. Totally agree with lonelymum about that one. I have found it quite a challenge at times esp as I have a dd2 age 11 weeks, but we are getting there. Good Luck, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

X-posted there. DD went commando for a good two weeks first as she wet or pooed every time in knickers. Gradually introduced knickers and she got it after showing her a picture book with big girls in knickers not nappies. This was def our breakthrough.

I also support the idea of letting your child go without pants. My son has spent the last 5 weeks only wearing clothes on his bottom half if we go out. It isn't necessary for him to go without pants and trousers anymore, but he seems to like being naked!

I would happily let him go commando, but he is a complete creature of habit and unless its bath/bed time he asks to get dressed! If he would just get in the habit of knowing when to pee