Potty Training help

[Ronniebaby]

My 2 year old DS2, doesnt have any inclination about potty training.

He sits ith me all the time in the loo, and knows what I am doing, yet shows no signs of potty training

He will walk about for ages with no clothes on, but as soon as I put on pants he wees in them.

Should I wait for him to give me a sign or should I push him a little.

He will sit on the potty for ages, but refuses to do anything

Is it too late to join the MagicalMay e send out?! ds nearly 3 due to start nursery in Sept and am CLUELESS about potty training! All I know is that "it'll happen in hot weather" (is what everyone tells me!) but HOW will it happen. No older siblings to imitate and quite frankly anything mym wants to do he just wants to do opposite of (oh blimey does that mean I have to start wearing napies for a bit? eek)
Thanks. email is [email protected]

PS Shosable your method does look good (and I can see where it good weather would help). But what to do with a child who still has a nap in the day? Mine kips for about 1 to 2 hours a day. Put nappies back on? Risk it?

My problem is DD often takes a major anti to loo and the potty. Re the potty, her latest is: "Not use it! NEVER!" She then kicks it. Yikes. Should I just stop do you think?!I just want to make sure it's clear she's 2.5, not like 18 mo or something.

Genidef - does she ever see any other children using a potty? I found that helped with my dc.

What about taking her shopping and getting her to choose a potty/toilet seat? maybe then she'll get some enthousiasm for using it.

Also you can buy her a doll with a potty so she can get used to the idea.

We've done the doll on pot thing; she sees other kids at the nursery and at preschool doing it too. I did think it would help. Might try letting her choose another pot (we need two anyway) and pants! We've tried those trainer pants and she's obsessed by them. "Wanna wear pink Cinderella nappies!!!" Maybe we can get some knickers with cartoon characters?! So much for tasteful white organic ones I've recently ordered, probably will be unpopular.

Shoshable, can I ask you something?

Generally we've used your method with our dds, we had easy success with dd1 (2y4m) and dd2 (22m). They both got it after a couple of days. But dd3 is different. She's just over 3, she's been out of nappies for 3 months, but still not actually reached the stage of making it to the loo herself more than about 1 in 10 times. If bribed and strongly encouraged every hour she can, just about, manage to use the loo, but most of the time she just has accidents, if we're not totally on the ball about reminding and bribing her to go.

So, should we give up and put her back in nappies after 3 months out and accept she's just not ready? And try again in a couple of months?

it seems really late to me, partly because my others were much younger.

any ideas?

fennel - what consequences does she experience when she has an accident?

belgo, well we aim mostly for being positive when she has a success - chocolate button + praise. Generally, when she has an accident, we take her to the loo, make her sit on the seat, change her clothes and tell her she has to tell us when she needs the loo.

why, do you think we should be doing something in particular? have thought about it but I thought the accepted thing was to reinforce the successes instead of focusing on the failures.