late nappy training.

[slim22]

Hi just wanted to share my experience of easy late training.

DS just turned 3 and I thought I'd give it a go now.
Really glad I waited. Went like a breeze. couple of accidents in first week. Now week n.2. Don't even have to remind him. He runs to me saying wee-wee when he needs to go and his very happy to use real toilet.

Just one tip. Stay home first couple days and leave him naked from the waist down so don't have to battle pulling down pants.
watch and encourage to go every 15mn.
From then on, use easy pull clothing to avoid frustration. And give a lot of praise.
reward with stickers or else. Even GF agrees that bribing does work for late training!
Good luck everyone.

Oh thanks for that - my DS was 3 in March and I still haven't done it

I'm going to wait until summer - cod says i'm lazy the fecker

Hi I am a new member as of today and really looking for advice on late nappy training I feel quite embarrased and ashamed to say my 3.5 year old boy is still not trained despite every type of encouragement, bribery whatever else you can think of. Getting a bit of pressure from nursery too and feel that he seems to be the only child of his age who isn't !!
HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Started after Xmas, he was very keen sat on potty every 20 mins or so then he gave up and lost interest cos he didn't do anything. Tried to still encourage but no response. ASked him if he knows when he needs to go and says no - so maybe where its all going wrong. Doea wee and Poo in pull ups and actulayy says I should have done this on toilet but think he's just too lazy. Seems like we'll never get there.

Hi Littleted

I was in same place a couple of months ago with DS 3.3.

Trying to think what we did. For a few days we made him sit on potty when he wanted to watch TV to get him used to it - he had refused to go anywhere near toilets and potties. Gave him praise for that. Also at start actually gave him a sweet when he wouild sit on it.

Read some books. The only one which was any use was the one you are not allowed to name on this site - it gives some good stuff about the older child reluctant to train. Hope you understand what I mean.

Tried to encourage him after that to use the potty when we got up in the morning.
We actually bought several potties as we found DS was uncomfortable on the ones we had - the one which made a big difference was the Safety First one available on the John Lewis site. DS was always uncomfortable on the loo - we knew he was never going to train on it.

Going to stop now and will come back as had very bad night last night with 2 kids and cant remember for the life of me what I did next but will be back.HTH so far

Hi littleted, have just trained a 3.5 yr old. We took him out of nappies cold turkey and bribed him to sit on the toilet. After 2 days and loads of accidents he happened to do a small wee on the toilet and was rewarded with a present. It all fell into place after that - now clean and dry after 2 weeks.

The thing was, once he didn't have the pull-up on, he found he really hated being wet.

I would suggest if there is a nappy change late on the day, chance it and put him in pants - if he does wet himself, see if he notices and minds.