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

DH is useless rant sorry!

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heartmoonshadow · 25/01/2012 21:54

I have been trying to potty train for about a week now and my little boy is beginning to have a little success bless him he tries and we have a 50/50 ratio on getting there in time. But I am so annoyed with other half all I ask him to do is keep an eye on DS when I am cooking tea and sorting washing etc but every single night this week DS has had accidents when with his dad who then proceeds to put him on the loo - stable door if you ask me - whilst I end up stopping what I am doing to mop and sterilise the floor and then sort out DS who is upset because he is wet and miserable.

I have tried pointing out that I manage to sort everything out myself during the day and DH goes off in a huff saying "well don't leave me with the rubbish jobs". I am a SAHM and to be honest I feel like just leaving all the housework and all the cooking for the next few days and telling DH to sort himself out as I am busy with DS because he can't be bothered.

Normally DH is brill with DS but for some reason he finds it too stressful to do anything mundane such as potty training as he has to, watch tv, relax, open post, sort emails, look at ebay or wash car after his hard day at work- selfish pig! I wouldn't mind so much but he wants to eat and cant cook for himself!

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MissIngaFewbaubles · 25/01/2012 21:56

offer him the choice of cooking tea or watching DS explaining that he MUST do one of them?

heartmoonshadow · 26/01/2012 10:25

Tonight that is going to be the option however I think DS may be turning a corner (touch wood) today we have had no accidents yet but it is only 1030 - four wees in the pot on his instigation sorry if too much info. I am supposed to be taking DS to HV this afternoon but I think as things are going well I am going to cancel rather than confuse him by using nappy pants when he is out.

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MissIngaFewbaubles · 26/01/2012 13:06

not at all, I am potty training DS, we're 10 days in and we haven't had an accident for 3 days, I am sooo proud of him. Today he asked to go and managed to hang on until we made it to the supermarket toilets :) you could take him in pants and just have spare stuff with you, good luck.

BlackSwan · 26/01/2012 20:17

It's really hard the first couple of weeks - I totally empathise heartmoonshadow. My DH equally useless: huge poo accident at bath time that somehow went unnoticed by DH who was supposed to be watching him at the time. I was very cross, with DH that is.

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