ok, trying potty training again and struggling,please help me

[mad4mybaby]

my ds1 is 3 in june. Last summer he was showing good signs for potty training and hewas doing poos and wees on it. Anyway id allsort of stopped and was pg with ds2 and sort of fizzled out. ds2 is now 14 weeks but really want get ds1 out of nappys. (pull ups) we talk about it and even discussed sticker charts( worked well with dummy) and even buying a specail present for 'big boy' which he thinks is great. however he keeps asking to put his pull ups back on... i dont know what to do.. feel out of my depth? IF you take his pull ups off and leave potty out he will we in it and can actually wee on demand. What do i do next? Where am i gong wrong?

I would suggest take a deep breath and leave it for a couple of weeks and not mention it too much.

Perhaps just say occasionally when he's near the toilet in the bathroom or before he goes into the bath. How about sitting on the toilet or wouldn't it be nice if you could wear big boy pants like these... (Buy some nice ones with characters on that he likes) Give it a few days and he might show some interest if you pretend you're not too keen. Leave the pants on show for him to see and say nothing. Most 3 year olds are nosey and will be interested.

good luck, my DD who's now 4 found it difficult and i'm hoping my DS who's nearly 3 will be easy.

hes got some thomas pants he loves, its just that he doesnt seem to WANT to be potty trained? Even though he is obsessed with looking at poos and wees in the loo

My DD found it was too time consuming and didn't/couldn't be bothered to go as it was cutting into valuable play time.
We did set certain times when we changed nappies and then moved onto toilet times.

Perhaps have set time when he sits on the toilet even if he doens't go. We do - getting up, after breakfast, mid-morning (depending on how much drunk), lunch-time, mid-afternoon and dinner time and then bathtime/bedtime.

They do grow out of it eventually it just seems to take such a long time to get there sometimes.

Agree with paranoidmother, ease back on the whole thing for a few days. He is probably picking up on your keeness for the whole thing to happen and wants to make sure in his own mind that he is ready for it.

DS was like this and I was really worried that he wasn't going to be toilet trained until he was after 3 but miraculously about 4 weeks ago ( he is 2.11) he announced that he didn't want to wear nappies any more, and bar a few accidents it has gone really well.

is it really bad to say how nappys are for babies? Is it good and makes him thing oh yeah im not a baby or will it have the opp effect?