Won't wee - but otherwise very aware!! Sorry - long.

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Hi - after two previous ones you'd think I would know the answer to this but I don't!! My dd2 is 21months and I've been putting off potty training her for 2 months now as my dd1 was 21m too and a nightmare - however I have given in as she knows when wet or dry, rips off every nappy we put on her, usually just after a wee, sits happily on the loo and potty, tells me she's done a poo, fart! etc,etc. However - after finally giving into it on Monday(poo on the floor when no nappy yet again) she has still not had a wee on the toilet/potty. I sit her regularly (once every 1 1/2 hrs or so and at the 'usual' times) and she has fabulous control, only weeing every 3 hours sometimes, but always on the floor. She has had one poo on the loo after telling us she needed one on the first proper night - the second night she made it to the toilet floor before letting go! This morning she apparently told my husband she needed a wee 3 seconds before she started but he was a bit sleepy and didn't twig until it was too late.
I am loathe to stop as she is SO close and I still have the problem of her taking off the nappies - believe me I've tried vests etc and she manages to rip around them...little darling! She is a very mature 21m, unlike my previous two and I'm stumped!
HELP.

Forgot to say that we are now at the end of day 3 and my other two were vastly improved by this point.

Anyone?

I have to say that she really doesn't sound ready to me - and 21 months is still very young (I know you said your other two were ready by that time - but they're all different!).

A friend of mine solved the problem of her son whipping off his nappy at every available opportunity by using gaffer tape wrapped several times around the tapes of his nappy - I know it sounds a bit dotty but it really worked for them, foiled his antics completely!

Cool - I have masking tape so may try that one!

Make sure the join is at the back of the nappy, otherwise a bright child like yours is likely to work out how to pick it open!

I meant to add that not being ready to potty train is no reflection on her maturity - it's a physical thing, and an emotional one too, but it doesn't mean she's not mature or bright for her age.

Hi - sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that she was bright for her age - she's just stroppy and determined and is awfully keen to do everything that big brother and sister do!