2.5 year old DS not interested in potty training...should I leave it?

[Kiwikiss1]

Hello, DS is my first child and I have attempted to potty train at 2.2 with no success. We have pottys, a loo seat, underpants etc but he is showing no interest in them whatsoever. I ask him every day if he wants to wear "big boy pants" or a nappy and he always says "nappy". He also refuses to sit on the potty. His language and understanding is excellent but he does have a will of iron so unless it is his idea I doubt if I would succeed. People keep telling me that their children just suddenly took an interest in pants/potty. Should I try again after Christmas despite his lack of interest to see if I can spark it or leave it until he takes the initiative. I guess I am worried that he never will. Thanks:-).

Wait until the summer. Much easier to potty train when ds can run around the garden without pants. You're only going to stress ds and yourself out by trying to potty train when he's clearly not interested.

I know it is very hard to wait for the right moment, especially when all your friends' little geniuses were dry, day AND night of course, when they were 8 months old... He will not be walking down the aisle in nappies, I promise.

Yes, leave it. So so so much easier to do it when they are ready to do it themselves, usually around age 3 or later even for boys.

DS is 2.2 and I've just left the potty lying about to see what he does. He seems to get the concept - when I go to the toilet he will sometimes announce that he needs a wee, will get the potty, take his trousers off but point blank refuse to take the nappy off then sit on the potty and do a wee in his nappy! I ask him very time "do you want your nappy off?" And I get a very stern "no!" in return.

I'm not going to push it - he'll be ready someday I just feel that at the minute he's getting familiar with his potty, maybe coming round to the idea, but right now it's all about him exploring the concept rather than me actively encouraging it iyswim

Leave it. I tried with DS at that age and got nowhere. Tried again at 2.10 and he got it straight away. There is no point doing it until they're ready.

He will get it, don't worry! How many 8 year olds in nappies do you know?

I wouldn't ask him every day - you're putting pressure on him with the big boy talk. I didnt do that. I bought ds some pants, said /poos went in the potty and made the switch. We had plenty of accidents etc but he got it quickly (2 weeks) although poos took bribery.

I'm not saying that it was simple - just that we didn't make a big deal, certainly didn't make a big deal if he had an accident. We used nappies at night and for visiting houses/car journeys but keeping those to a minimum reduced the stress a bit.

Leave it! I was surrounded by friends with trained babies so decided to push on with training my twins at 2.5.
Seriously. .. it's not worth the hassle!
Took months forthem to get it.. not to mention pissy carpets.
Try again in a month. .. if it's not working leave it.
Mine are coming up to 3 and they're trained but I wish I'd just waited instead of putting them through that when they weren't ready.

Ps. Chocolate buttons are a genius potty treat.
2 for poos!

Mine is 2.4 and has absolutely no clue what I'm talking about regarding any aspects of potty training!

I leave his nappy off quite regularly as I like his bum to get an airing but he has shat/pissed on the floor more times than I care to remember. (I don't have carpets luckily so no biggy)

If he wees he'll sometimes notice when it hits the floor and say 'ooooh!' but a big old crap can fall out and he doesn't break his stride.

He'll say 'if you need a wee, on DS's potty' and he knows what his potty is, but if I say 'did some wee come out?' he looks at me completely blankly!

I've no intention of even attempting any kind of potty training until he at least understands the concept of where shit comes from!

My mum likes to remind me every sodding time I see her that I was dry day and night by 18m, and that all children were potty trained by 2yo. It was just how it was done apparently. She's just saying

That's how it was done when all nappies needed washing and leaked really badly!

Leave it. It took about a year before DS was fully potty trained and I still think that was because we started months too early - and he was making all the right noises because he had the language and understanding, just not the bladder control!

You probably won’t see this but I’ve been full on belly chuckling to your comment 😂