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roll up all you poopy toddlers cods on the case

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TheHighwayCod · 20/11/2006 08:56

ok heres hte rules
take them dont ask

r ewardd with mass hysteria

do not venture out
do not ever use nappies in the day agin

have to go to tesco
back in a couple of hours

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GeorginaA · 20/11/2006 13:55

That's great Pruni Long may it continue!

GeorginaA · 20/11/2006 18:45

Okay, I may go back to telling him to go to the potty tomorrow... about 3 accidents on coming home.

marymillington · 20/11/2006 18:56

poo guru and all those trying just now
what did you take as signs of los being ready?

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TheHighwayCod · 20/11/2006 19:59

erm whne they are 2 and a bit

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beckybrastraps · 20/11/2006 20:01

My dd will only use the potty/toilet if she is completely naked. It's a right PITA when we're out. She's odd, I know, but I can't change that. Any advice?

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TheHighwayCod · 20/11/2006 20:02

yes make her do so in snow

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beckybrastraps · 20/11/2006 20:06

Cod, she would. Really. She doesn't feel the cold at all. She is an odd child. In all sorts of ways...

Pruni · 20/11/2006 20:57

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GeorginaA · 20/11/2006 21:05

So there's hope for us yet, then?

Can't decide whether I should continue on my plan to remind him but not force ds2 to go regularly to the potty tomorrow, or go back to regularly taking him every X number of hours. Dilemma!

pepperpots · 20/11/2006 21:11

ok my ds2 is 2.4 months and i am having a nightmare have tried everything and although he will sit on the toilet (which he does get praise for) he point blank refuses to do anything. Have tried sweets as bribery if he did go but he wont. Am i trying him too early?? just to mention ds1 was 3.4 before he was toilet trained and he literally wernt overnight

biglips · 20/11/2006 21:39

my 25m old dd did her first wee in the potty last nite ...so happy!! and her 2nd today

she saw her big sister on the toilet yesterday morning and before my dd went to bed last night, she asked for the toilet out of the blue!

ive been using her dolly to pretend she is having a wee in my dd's potty and reward her dolly with a kiss and cuddle.

biglips · 20/11/2006 21:40

oops! this is the poop thread but anyway ....!

ghosty · 21/11/2006 03:06

You are a hard woman Cod .... 'ard as nails ....

Ban nappies ... the very thought of it ...

eidsvold · 21/11/2006 05:11

offers to send one of hers to ghosty if she needs the nappy saga to continue

ghosty · 21/11/2006 07:08

I'll have them both Eidsvold, judging by that gorgeous photo

GeorginaA · 21/11/2006 07:15

You know, I read that as eidsvold was going to send you one of her pooey nappies, ghosty

ghosty · 21/11/2006 08:00

maybe that was what she did mean?

edam · 21/11/2006 08:13

Georgina, were the accidents on way home wee or poo? What worked for wee with ds were a. stickers but really b. seeing his friends doing 'garden' wees ie standing up into a bush. This was summer, obv. Has dh/dp (if you have one) shown him how to do standing up wees? Ds seems to think they are much better than sitting down. (Sign of being a big boy like daddy etc. etc. etc.) Ds was over 3 when we started btw, did the whole waiting till he's ready - it was when he saw his friends doing 'garden' wees that he showed an interest.

meowmix · 21/11/2006 08:15

DS is dry and extremely proud of the fact that he can take himself to the loo (in fact he insisted on showing my whole office how clever he was yesterday). But he seems to poo immediately on waking up (at 5am so don't suggest I get up earlier to wake him to go to the loo because I won't do it, dammit, I won't )now having always saved it as a bed-time diversion before. What to do HighwayCod?

Boys are wierd.

GeorginaA · 21/11/2006 08:23

All the afternoon accidents were wees but we did have a visitor over (friend of ds1's) and juice was involved again. (I don't think it's the juice per se that causes the problems as this was diluted fresh juice, I think it's more that ds2 just drinks a whole load more when juice is on offer so needs to go more frequently but doesn't)

On the flip side, between 6pm - 7pm he went to the potty at his instigation 4 times - then again that could have been bedtime/tidy time delaying tactics rather than genuine feeling the need to go

I agree meowmix, boys are weird.

Think I might go back to taking him but lengthen it out to every 2 hours with no juice, every hour with juice or at someone's house with nice carpet And just mop him up without comment in between times.

The thing is, for MONTHS he's wanted to use the toilet like his big brother. This isn't something I've forced upon him, he really was showing signs of being ready - and I don't want to go backwards now we've got this far... but but but...

It will sort itself out if I perserve won't it? One day he'll just wake up and take himself there without prompting, won't he? Please?

edam · 21/11/2006 09:19

Yes it will! I know those delaying tactics, all through the bedtime routine. Ds's bedroom is upstairs from the bathroom and every evening he'd suddenly decide he HAD to use his potty when we were tucking him in (even though he had a night-time nappy on). It WILL get better. Ds now chants 'pants are for day time, nappies are for night time' (still wakes with wet nappy so leaving that for now).

Have you taken him out pant shopping so he can choose some he likes? Ds has loads of hideous Thomas/Noddy/Bob the Builder pants but they seemed to help (he didn't want to wee on Thomas so would head for the potty).

GeorginaA · 21/11/2006 09:21

Yes, he has a set of Thomas pants and a set of robot pants - they don't seem to be having the required effect

edam · 21/11/2006 09:22

Bum. IYSWIM!

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TheHighwayCod · 21/11/2006 09:25

pepperpots kee[ goimg
d not revert to nappies
do not ask

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TheHighwayCod · 21/11/2006 09:26

agree with edams advice re stadnign up if that sutis him.
when we used ot have squash we oduwl only allow three a day

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