Toilet trainer seat

[loveisagirlnameddaisy]

My DD is 2.5 and I'm keen to start toilet training having been a bit lazy up till now. We bought a potty about three months ago and started encouraging her to use it before bathtime and in the morning and whenever she was watching TV, but she absolutely refuses. I thought it would be a winner given it's got Peppa Pig on it, but no! Not sure if she's a little too big for it as she's off the charts size-wise (as tall as an average 4 yr old!).

Anyway, have decided to just go straight to using the loo but wondered a) is this a good idea and b) which toiler trainer seat people can recommend so I don't waste my money.

thanks!

In some ways, if you are planning to be in the house for a while, and you have more than one child then the family seats where you have a little seat inside big seat, esp the slow close ones if boys might use it. Having said that, ds just uses the pottette plus seat, which has the bonus of turning into a potty and being transportable, so when we go out he can sit on the same one. Have a princess mothercare one(bought for dd1, not ds!), but it slides all over the place, so can only be used if you plonk them on top.

Thanks for the tip, hadn't realised the potette plus doubled up! My main issue is potty refusal but I don't know if that's because she's not ready or if the potty is uncomfortable (hence thinking I'd go straight to the toilet seat).

We are going to stay in the house a while and number 2 is on its way so we'll get good use out of whatever we buy.

BTW, aren't all the toilet trainer seats a little one inside the big one, or are some different?

We liked the toilet seat with two size seats - DS found the removable toilet trainer seat a bit wobbly and I think also liked the fact that the two size seat one was a proper toilet seat rather than a sort of babyish thing. He switches between the child seat and adult seat depending what mood he is in. Ours was a GLTC one where the child seat stays inside the lid, so we don't have to lift it out of the way all the time like we would with a separate trainer seat.

DS never got on with one of the usual potties - much preferred the more substantial ones that look a bit like a throne :o, like this one

My dd1 is happy with thinner tippee toilet seat from amazon. A bargain price too and v easy to insert/remove/clean

A potty chair!! I never knew such things existed!!!

Thank you for all the advice!

If you google soft close family toilet seat you should see a few, not sure which is best as haven't got around to getting one I do know that especially for boys the recommendation is to get soft/slow close to avoid painful accidents ifkwim.

If anyone has recommendations I would also be interested. Some of the slow close ones seem to have insubstantial lids, which would be a pain as we use ours to sit on while supervising children in the bath.