Potting training 2 year old

[Cutie18327]

Hi all,

Just after some advice for potty training my 2 year old. My daughter is 25 months and can articulate herself very well, she knows when she has done a wee or a poo and when I started her off a few weeks ago she was doing lots of wees in the potty. However, at the moment she is refusing. 'Do you want to sit on your potty?'....'No I don't want to sit on the potty' but she is wetting through her pull ups. Now I only continued to use pull ups because I'm worried about the mess with a 5 month old baby about and hygiene etc. etc. but am I making it harder for my daughter by confusing her? Or is she just not ready? If I leave her to her own devices will she eventually start choosing to use the potty?

Thanks!

Don't ask her if she wants to. Change it to an easy breezy 'ok it's time to sit on the potty!' and make it a routine/habit.

Whenever your leave the house, get home, before an after naps, and either every hour or so (to start with) or when you see signs she needs to go. We are two months in and DD started asking to go quite quickly, and automatically just goes when she wakes up. But if she's distracted by food or playing she still won't ask and will say no if we ask so that's when we just say 'ok I think it's time to sit on the potty' and physically take her.

If she doesn't want to sit and wait when you tell her it's time, try going to the toilet yourself and having her sit on the potty just like you.

We trained DD at the same age showing the same signs so hopefully that's helpful

Following with interest as DS is a similar age and has been showing signs for ages. He also says he doesn’t want to sit on the potty when asked and I have a 4mo so not a battle I’m prepared for at the moment. DS has bladder control, he will hold it until he gets in the bath (and then I have to take him out to use the potty, he finds weeing in the bath hilarious). And he will do multiple small wees at bedtime in order to string it out. But he’ll be super interested for a few days and then go off it.

eta I have found him pull ups and trousers down sat on the potty with absolutely no input from me, it’s just making it habit/routine I think.

Problem with ‘ok it’s time to sit on the potty now’ is when they say no … in a similar situation!

Thank you for the replies, the change of language has definitely helped but the issue now is that she often refuses and doesn't want to sit. I'm trying to bribe her with stickers but I don't think they're exciting enough!

It’s not fun but I think doing it at that age will involve some degree of mess. My youngest was potty trained at two and we did bare bum for a few days and then v loose trousers with no pants for a week or two. I would imagine the pull ups are confusing her, as do you mean the ones that are nappy material?

We've had a lot of success by using the ladder/toilet seat combo rather than a potty. DD started just after she turned 2.
We've gone a bit backwards though as we moved house but I'm positive we'll get back on top of it again.

DD liked that she was using the same toilet as us so it's definitely worth a try.