Oh Blimey .... DD insists on wearing pants but won't use the potty or toilet ....

[ghosty]

What am I to do?

After thinking I was so clever buying knickers together and telling her that she could wear them when she was ready to use the potty ....

This morning she has kicked up a huge fuss, insisting on wearing her new pants .... but when I suggested that she tells me when she needs a wee and to do it in the potty she lost it.

I have put them on her and am keeping my fingers crossed that she a)understands and b) tells me that she needs to go and c) if she wets her pants I can persuade her to go back into a nappy until she is ready.

She is 2.8 ... I know she can do it (twice she has held on in the changing rooms at the swimming pool and has done it down the shower hole ... please don't hate me for that, there was nothing else I could do at the time and we showered lots of water down the hole after) ... but she so far has refused to use the potty or toilet ever.

she might just surprise you. especially when she realises how yucky it is when you wee in your pants

My dd is 2.8 and I am having similiar problems Ghosty. She is very happy to sit on the toilet for a reward but has no intention of actually performing on there at all.
someone on here the other day said that it works if you put the pants on underneath the pull ups so that she is wearing pants but she will know if she wets herself and there is no mess cause she is wearing pull ups. May work for your dd.

come and join us on the half term potty training thread

Unless (and having a feisty 2yo DD myself I doubt it) you can persuade her to wear them over a nappy I think you are going to have to bite the bullet and go for it. It won't be long before she realises that she doesn't like being wet/dirty.

I thought that pull ups were now seen as a no go in terms of potty trainind as they see them as a nappy?
I didn't use them for DS .... but he was easy to train (did it in one day but he was 2.11)
I might well come to the half term thread ...

Nope, fallen at the first hurdle....
DD wouldn't do a wee in the potty when I bribed her and then wee'd herself 5 minutes later
I remember trying that for 5 days with DS and he just didn't get it so I gave up for a couple of months ...
So, knickers in the wash, nappies back on ... try again when the weather gets warmer ...

Ds insisted on night pants once - realised that he didn't want to wear them when we had to do a complete bed change 5 minutes after he fell asleep and has happily worn pull ups to bed ever since.

My mum thinks I am mad - I think 1 pull up a night in exchange for 12 hours of peace is worth the cost to the environment and me.

Everyone wees in swimming pool showers.

threebob ... surely not?????????

Sympathies ghosty, I was going to start a simillar thread. DS (2.10) will wee and poo on the potty but as soon as we put pants on (which he is happy to do) just goes in them.

Its OK when we are at home as he can just wonder around without them on but hes gone to nursery with pants on and loads of spare trousers today.

Hes only just getting used to nursey so I hope it doesnt upset him.