Hello
I am very new to the site so my apologies for this stupid question. My wife and I have a nephew and he is 3 and a half years old. His mother (my sister in law) will not potty train him because she is lazy and allows him to carry on wearing nappies to play school and has no plans to start potty training.
His mother is not the sort of person who takes criticism well but we do have the little boy to stay over night 2-3 times a week and I would like to give my wife some advice as to what we could do to help him get potty trained.
All of the information online says that it needs to be a consistent approach but it is impossible to get his mother to do this for various reasons. Could you advise whether there are any strategies we could employ when he stays with us for the odd night or at weekends to get him out of nappies? I feel that his mother will do nothing and allow him to go to proper school in nappies and for me this is not acceptable going forward.
Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated.
Many thanks -