Using the toilet!!

[missemmajane]

My DD is 3 years 5 months old and has been potty trained for 5-6 months and is dry during the day and night and has been for months, she just WON'T use the toilet and only insists on using a potty.....we have tried everything that we can think of from rewards to bribery. We have talked about why she doesn't want to use the toilet and she just says she doesn't want to and screams and cries. We tried going cold turkey and took the potty away to the potty fairies for the 'babies' but she then spent the weekend not telling us she needed a wee and wet herself 5 times, this has never happened even when first potty training. It seems that she would rather be wet than use a toilet. We re-introduced the potty and she went straight back to using it with no accidents. We have even resorted to a dolly who can 'wee' to see if this may help, she takes the dolly to use the toilet and says 'good girl you can have a sticker', but this still isn't encouraging her that it is fine, safe and ok to do. Any ideas or advice would be SO greatly received!! Thanks in advance.

What toilet seat have you got? and what stool??

We have ended up with one of these seats upstairs and downstairs. So much more stable that the lightweight plastic ones we'd previously had.

We also had to search high and low for a 2 step stool to use to get to the toilet to make sure the boys could get up their safely.

Does she feel safe getting onto the toilet?

Thank you so much addictedtosugar, that seat looks amazing, we have been using the standard mothercare plastic ones and only a one step stool. Thanks for your ideas! :-)

I don't know how other kids manage it, but there was no way at potty training DS1 could have got up from the standard steps everyone seems to have.
OK, so they are slight, but not tiny!