Toilet training our 3.5 year old

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We started about 5 months ago. We stopped and restarted twice as he didn't seem ready.

He's 3.5, he still has a poo accident most days. With a lot of prompting he generally does all his weeing into the toilet. Without prompting it's 50% success. He's the same at home or at nursery. When he's very tired he has more accidents.

With poo it's like he really doesn't recognise the signals yet. Is 3.5 kind of late for this?
Should I be talking to the health visitor?
His brother picked it up so quickly so it's very different this time for us!

Anyone had similar? How did it turn out?

Have you looked at the Eric website? they have lots of tips on this. One main thing seems to be making sure they are not constipated.

Thanks, I will take a look at the Eric website. I don't think he's constipated because he does have a poo every day. But I'll read up on it.

It's very common when toilet training for kids to get the hang of doing a wee very quickly but have issues doing a poo. When I trained my son I decided to work on daytime training first and deal with night time at a later date so he would hold his poo in all day and as soon as I put his bedtime pull up on he'd go and hide and poo in it! Eventually he grew out of it. I'm sure your Health Visitor will tell you it's nothing to worry about, I'm sure they won't mind you giving them a call for advice. I think I found lots of articles on Google about poo being the hard part of toilet training for lots of kids.