Can anyone give me a step by step guide on how to potty train?!

[luckywinner]

I am about to start training my dd but I fluffed it up bady with my ds so I feel like I have absolutely no clue to potty training. All I remember from last time is I read Gina Ford's book and felt like a complete failure!

Do they do a complete idiot's guide to potty training? Because I need it if they do!

dont start till your Dc shows an interest or willingness.
Then do cold turkey, none of those pullups pants nonsense just get them pants, let them help chose.
Remove rugs etc if you can.
They will have accidents for about 5 days and will need to take them to potty every half hour or so till they get used to remembering. engage their help in clearing up accidents, well maybe not the poo.
Dont get angry.
If after several days accidents are still more than one a day consider going back to nappies for a while.
Keep them in night nappies till you are taking them off dry every morning and cant rtemember the last time they woke up wet.
HTH

I do it a slightly different way - I'm not necessarily sure that you have to WAIT for signs of readiness, I think you can encourage them to be there. There are so many different ways to go about it and the suggestion above works really well for an older child I think, but if you just want to get on with it now and your DD hasn't yet shown much interest, then (provided she can follow simple commands etc) I'd suggest a more gentle start - not exactly potty training, but preparation for potty training to start with. For the first few weeks get her to sit on the potty at set times of day (say immediately after waking, and before her bath). Once she's happy to do that add in further times (after meals and naps). Pull ups can work well for this as it makes it easier - but treat them as a nappy (that's what they are) not pants. You might catch something occasionally (make lots of fuss) but don't expect anything, I think this stage is just to build up the routine of it. Talk a lot about poos and wee going in the loo when you change her nappy so she understands what's expected and maybe get a couple of those potty story books that explain it all. After a while you can try doing some time at home nappy free, but again, without any high expectations. By this time hopefully your DD will have got the idea a bit and then you can go for the cold turkey approach as suggested above. I'd also say that if it does all get too much and you do go back to nappies, often a couple of days is enough (and keep up regular times of sitting on the potty),then try again. This approach worked really well for my DD who is now nearly 2 (although we have recently suffered a poo relapse (yuk...) following a vary nasty bout of diarrhoea, but fingers crossed we'll be back on track soon.......

DD is 2.2 and for the past couple of weeks has told me when she has done a wee and won't sit down in her nappy until I have changed her and the same for poo. She is happy to sit on the potty and is obsessed with her upsy daisy knickers! I think she might be ready but I made such a hash of it with my ds that I don't want to rush it. Plus I have lovely new carpets but they won't go away

I tried my 2.5year old with potty training just recently but have since gone back to nappies. He showed zero interest and I spent days following him round with a mop. Have now decided to leave it till he's nearly 3 when I can talk to him more about it and when what i'm doing makes more sense to him. Good luck

Sounds like me and my ds and I didn't do the sensible thing like you did and go back to nappies as I foolishly listened to my mil. Won't be making that mistake this time round.

lucky,

I think she is more than ready and will probally be great.
Agree totally with shitemum and Nelly and you are past the stage of introducing the potty and further along.

Go for it and good luck