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Potty training regression

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TuftyBabu · 15/09/2005 12:21

My DD is 2.6 years old, we have been potty training over the summer and this has been going really well. DH has started to go away for work and DD has regressed and started weeing everywhere, she also refuses to go when asks, then wets herself. I realise DH being away is affecting her but we can't change this. Does anyone have any great ideas to help?

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Surfermum · 15/09/2005 12:50

Oh Tufty you have my sympathies - I'm having exactly the same problem with dd who's 2.4. I trained DD just before her 2nd birthday. After a couple of days she was completely dry in the day (naps as well) for about 4 weeks. We went away camping and she was great there too until the last day, then she just seemed to not bother asking for her potty and was in her 3rd set of clothes by 10am. I put it down to her being really tired, but since then she's had good days and bad days.

I decided that I was probably going on a bit too much about telling me if she needed the potty, so stopped reminding her and if we were out and I thought it was time she went I would just take her to the loo without saying where we were going (if I did she would say she didn't want to).

I put her in nappies for sleeps but I think the other mistake I've made is putting her in them at other times, for example for long journeys, and for the day of our friend's 25th wedding blessing where she was a flower girl. I think it's probably confused her.

When we started training I used to give her a sticker for her and a sticker for her potty if she used it. I think she got so many to start with, the reward of a sticker got a bit diluted. What I've decided to start this week is to reward her with a stone in her jar. She seems to have a weird thing about picking up stones when we're out and taking them home! I've nicked the pasta jar theory (thanks whoever it was!). So far so good and she seems really pleased with her collection of stones. Long may it last.

Good luck and happy mopping! BTW our local community nursery nurse told me it was completely normal to have a regression.

bevely · 15/09/2005 16:09

my daughter is 2.2mths and has been potty trained since before she was 2 however over the last week she seems to no want to go on the potty at nursery when asked if she want to go she says no and then wets i thought it was tiredness as we went away over the weekendf and i put a nappy on her in the car just in case she fell asleep however when we both were off and she was at home she went on the potty at home no problewm but when asked why she does want to go on potty at nursery she replies because i said so can anyone HELP

Surfermum · 16/09/2005 20:05

Well I decided that dd was probably also learning to push the boundaries and see what she could get away with. Anyway, the stones in the jar seem to be working fantastically. No accidents since I started it.

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