do you or did you train your child to go straight on the toilet by passing the potty?

[lovelysongbirdie]

? with one of those seat things?

I am doing that now with dd1. She is 4, though (she is autistic, hence late training), and would find it veryhard to get down to potty level (she's very tall)

in fact, when her nursery started training her at 2 (was ridiculous, but they insisted) I wanted to do it then as well, as she was too tall for potties even then, but again, they insisted (they were mad, and funnily enough it didn't work)

I want to do the same (straight to toilet) with dd2 as well - makes snese to me to train them where you want them to go, not get them to learn one thing and then change it.

Intend to do that with DS.

He started showing he understood what 'wee' meant and starting and stopping deliberately. We got him a Thomas the Tank Engine seat and started putting him on it. He got the hang of it within a day and now usually goes if we put him on it.

He has now started pulling his trousers and saying 'wee' when he's doing a wee so I think we'll go for it properly very shortly, without a potty.

My SIL had trouble getting my niece to transfer from potty to toilet which put me off.

I tried but DS prefered the potty for confidence but within a few days was standing for wees at the loo (we're now about 3 weeks in and he still does poos on the potty but I'm happy with that). He's too big (at 2.7 but very tall) to use any of the toddler seats I have tried - willy and bum don't go through the hole together, not good! But he's not yet confident to balance on the adult seat enough to relax to go... I should also point out DS doesn't fit on a standard potty, and certainly not a potette (travel potty) so I actually ended up with quite a few wasted products that DS was just too big for!

I've only ever used a potty for convinience when the toilet is out of reach or in the car. My four all learned by using toilet and potty. You don't need one of those toddler seats neither unless your toddler is afraid of falling. Mine managed the big toielt fine with no seat or step.

We have used a mix of seats and potties. The problem with the seat is that she can't get there herself, even with a step (she's a small 22 months, but we started at 10 months). With a potty she can go herself. The seat is easier though for transporting around (like when she goes to nanny's for the morning etc). It also helped in getting her familiar with using a big loo - she will now use a big loo without a seat, but has to be held on.

In fact I sometimes hanker after those teeny-tiny loos they have at nursery which she can use solo, along with a teeny-tiny washbasin - a bit extravagant to think about getting one installed at home though!

dd started off using the potty mostly and toilet occasionally (with training seat) but i got fed up of emptying the potty so didn't take it with us when we were away over xmas...and then hid it when we got back
sorted!
potty was handy initially when timing was critical though

well my dd is 18 months would i need to get her a toilet seat.

i don't fancy cleaning the potty all the time.

anyway how do you clean the potty ?
bleach?

Hi I just trained DD2 (who was 22 months) and we went straight to loo (with a child seat). She will go on the loo without a child seat if we are out and about, but I have to hold her quite carefully as otherwise she's likely to fall in!

With DD1 I used a potty. Re cleaning, I held the whole potty under the loo flush to get rid of the worst, then wipe out with loo roll, spray with disinfectant spray and wipe round again with loo roll. Best to buy a potty that is easy to hold in the loo under the flush, so either a v small one, or a fairly big one which has a removable bowl (such as the baby bjorn one which DD1 seemed to find most comfy to sit on!)

DS used a potty for about a fortnight before deciding he liked the toilet better. We never even used one of those toddler seats. He just found a way of straddling the front end of he toilet so that he didn't 'fall down the toilet' . i was so glad, as I hated emptying poo-ey potties

both of mine straight to the loo with a baby seat. they were both 3 and dry day and night v v quick.
did not see point of training to go on a potty then on to the loo..

dd2 went straight to the toilet without baby seat as she was determined to copy dd1. I had no intention of toilet training her at that time but she had other ideas! She likes the potty now for the novelty value I think!

I wanted dd to go straight to toilet but she started refusing to wear nappies earlier thsn I wanted to train her and it was often a case of her saying she needed a wee as she started doing it so a potty was useful to be able to whip under her! Within a couple of weeks she was using the potty without telling me and was too small to get on the loo without me so the potty was good for that too. We don't have a downstairs loo either so keep the potty downstairs and she still sometimes uses it if she doesn't have time to get upstairs (DD is VERY bad at remembering to use the toilet/potty and holds it until she suddenly just goes so we still have accidents).

To clean it for wee I just rinse it out with water and poo just tip down loo, rinse with water, wipe with loo roll and rinse again.=

best tip I have for potties and not having yukky poo to clear up is to put some folded loo roll in the potty - then if they poo it goes on the paper. Wipe bum with loo roll, place on top of poo - then tip quickly in to the loo and it doesn't touch the sides . Far more bearable than smeared poo all over the potty...

thank weegle thats a great tip

yes - dd1 hardly used a potty and went pretty much straight to sitting on loo on a child's seat thing. much less messy and faffy

Oh yes weegle and if you don't get there in time with the loo roll then I find putting water in the potty (with poo still in there) then tipping out often helps prevent smears

DD uses mainly the toilet, but did use the potty.

We never 'trained' her, the potty was around, mainly for her toys to sleep in and when she was ready, she chose to go. One day she used the potty, the next she used the toilet, with a step and training seat, and now she uses whichever she is in the mood for, mostly the toilet.

If I was going to actually 'train', if that is what she had needed, I would have done toilet directly as that is what she would have prefered, seeing us going there. Also makes it easier when out and about so you don't have to carry a potty with you or go through trauma when LO has a tantrum because they have to go on a real toilet.

My youngest dd went straight to using the toilet (without a child seat) at 3y4m. Needed a step to get up there but was okay once on.