Starting to train my 2.7 DS tomorrow any tips please for a very nervous 1st time mum 😁

[vickiarrel]

Hi, so I've taken a week off work to start toilet training with my DS. He's our first child so I'm new to this and am planning on not leaving the house at all next week. He prefers the toilet to the potty which is fine. But should I ask him every 15 mins? Do I just take him regardless? Help please! X

No advice but watching eagerly as going to do the same! Have you done any prep or are you wading straight in? My DD sits on the toilet morning and night and often wees and once or twice did a "great big log" but is still in nappies as I'm too unsure/scared/lazy to take the plunge..
Are you going for a reward system?

My DS sits on the toilet at night and has only wee'd no number 2's yet!! Today was the first go and we have had three accidents!hes sat on the toilet this morning but nothing has landed in the bowl. 😞 I haven't read up
on anything just wading straight in. It's been a busy morning and my poor waging machine doesn't know what has hit it! Lol

I just toilet trained DD which has seemed easier than DS. What I did for both was just leave them for a while and then ask if they needed to go, maybe leave a potty hanging around in case it is needed quickly! When she needs to go we run and shout out "Hold on Pee Pee!!" To begin with you need to praise and reward them...helped this time that DD has an older brother who was also encouraged by smarties to praise his wee sister
vickiarrel Don't worry first day DD went to nursery in pants she wet herself 4 times...poor nursery staff were running out of patience & clothes. They didn't look too happy on the Friday when I also sent her in pants BUT she has never had an accident there again....so far!
Lots of praise and tubes of smarties...Good Luck :o

I've just finished week 1 of potty training - as a teacher I can't take a week off, so I've had to do it in half term as DS started asking the week before to use the potty.

Things I've learnt that you might find useful:

1. Tell don't ask - we went to the potty every half an hour to begin with, now down to every hour, but DS often says he doesn't want to or asks for a cuddle as a delaying tactic and when I insist he produces something about half the time
2. Sticker chart - we got one from Tesco and he gets a sticker everytime he sits on the potty. Once he started doing wees he got chocolate buttons for them (same with poos), but now he seems to be happy doing that we've 'forgotten' the chocs.
3. LOTS of pants and easy to pull up trousers - we haven't thrown any out yet, but I want to be able to if they seem beyond help! He always gets a choice of two to pick from - any more and he just spends too long picking through them! Packs of 5 are £3-5 in Asda/Tesco
4. Toys for the potty - to persuade him to stay sitting on the potty we had to have boxes of books next to the potty and he could choose one or two to read. After the first few days he was actually difficult to get off the potty (he was determined not to have accidents!) so we had to use the magic phrase 'let's see if there's anything in the potty'.
5. When we finally went out of the house, we took a portable potty (potette) and put a pull-up nappy over his pants to help us cope with accidents (although luckily we didn't have any!).

Hope they help!

I think if they're ready they'll do it, otherwise it may take longer. I am a one child mother to DS and i trained him at 2.8, he got it first time and has never had an accident (now 3.2)
I kept telling him daily the week before, that after our holiday we were on at the time, there would be no more "baby pants" as he called nappies, first day we were home, i put him straight into pants, and reminded him every 20 mins if he needed to go, he'd need to go to po (potty)

We carried around the potty in car for a week or so, but really a lot of praise and we promised him tom thomas's helicopter from B&M's if he managed it and the week later he was a proud owner of it

If he's ready you'll know, if not, nothing wring with sticking nappies back on and trying again in another couple of months.

Well in day 4 in and I'm the proud mother of a son who did a number 2 for the first time tonight. He even came and told me before hand so no accidents in sight. The only thing I haven't been happy with is when he was at playgroup in Tuesday, I took his seat and asked they take him every 30 mins (as I have been doing) when I picked him up 2 hours later I was advised that they has taken him once but because he got a bit upset they didn't try him again!! So I took him home and straight away he pulled me into the bathroom downstairs and went for a long wee!! He's there tomorrow so in hoping they take him more than once! He winges thinking it will change my mind, I'm only 4 days in so by the time I go back to work this will have stopped( I'm hoping). But so far so good, dry day today with only a pull up when he went down for a nap. I'm a very proud mammy today!!

Thanks for the tips i'm liking the reward chart and the toy at the end. Is your DS dry at night too? My DS is wearing a pull up but I get him up at 10.30pm to go and this helps him stay dry.