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Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

Not sure whether to start or have I put her off for life?!

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clariel · 12/09/2010 12:49

My dd1 has just turned 2 and I'm thinking of potty training her in a couple of weeks when DH is off work for a week. We have a dd2 who is 5 months so am thinking the extra help will be good!

The thing is, we had a bit of a half hearted attempt in May, which we abandoned after a couple of days when it was clear she wasn't ready. She's now often waking up from her nap dry, and will sometimes tell me when she's done a poo nappy, and if she's left without a nappy and does a wee, she tells me she's weeing as she's doing it (but never tells me she's weeing whilst wearing a nappy). So I think she's more ready now and since DH will be off work I think it's worth trying.

So this morning I thought I'd get the ball rolling, and took her into the bathroom with me while I had a wee, and asked her to sit on her potty (she already had nappy off) just to practise. She point blank refused to go anywhere near the potty, let alone sit on it! So now I'm worried we've put her off when we tried her in May, and what will I do if we decide we're going to go for it in pants in a couple of weeks and she just refuses to sit on the potty?

I'm kind of hoping it'll just sort of fall into place when we get her in pants and she gets more of a wet sensation (although she's in cloth nappies so should already be feeling wet, just doesn't seem bothered by it)

Any thoughts? Should I just go for it?

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StealthPolarBear · 12/09/2010 12:50

yes, sounds like she's ready for another go :)
Just try with the potty, bribe her with chocolate :)

onimolap · 12/09/2010 12:54

Voice of doom: if she won't sit on a potty there isn't a chance she'll do anything else on it!

Can you encourage her to go near the potty in the weeks leading up to training time? Get her toys to sit on it? Have her watch a slightly older child using one? Get a potty book?

belgo · 12/09/2010 12:54

Stop worrying.

Sounds like she is ready - just let her go without a nappy, keep the potty beside her and give her lots of praise when she uses the potty.

My ds wasn;t showing any of the signs of readiness that your dd is showing; even so after a couple of days of accidents he was potty trained and now at 23 months is out of nappies.

onimolap · 12/09/2010 12:57

Or you could abandon the potty and get a loo seat insert and a step stool and use the big loo.

clariel · 13/09/2010 09:28

Thanks all, am a bit more reassured we should just go for it now!

Yesterday we went out to get some big girl pants which she seemed quite excited about, and a spare potty so we've got one upstairs and one downstairs now. I'm taking her into the bathroom when I go for a wee and although she doesn't want to 'have a go' at sitting on her potty, I'm just going to keep doing it to get her used to the idea. And maybe get her toy cat to have a go first.

Got a big bag of chocolate buttons (hidden from DH!) and keep mentioning about her little friend who's doing really well at potty training so hopefully we're all set! Potty book is a good idea, can anyone recommend a good one? (not too Americany)

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