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Potty training

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

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Toilet training resources

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Chickpearocker · 23/03/2017 13:36

Hi guys

Where do I start!! Any recommendations for books or videos, or what equipment I need and where to buy it. I feel overwhelmed at the thought of potty training and dreading it. My ds is 2 years and 3 months it feels very early to be training him.

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TittyGolightly · 23/03/2017 13:38

Wait till he is ready. That's going to be 3 or possibly later.

Presumably you didn't have a regime to get him walking by a set date, you waited for him to be ready. No difference with potty learning.

Janet Lansbury has good articles on it.

Wishiwasmoiradingle2017 · 23/03/2017 13:40

All I used was a potty and patience!!
Left the potty around in general from when ds could walk!! He is 2.6 and great on it for a wee. Just about sorted mastering the poo too!

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Chickpearocker · 23/03/2017 14:09

Tittygolightly I said to my health visitor I was waiting for him to be ready, she said he is ready if he is tugging at his nappy and having less nappies in a day because that means he's holding?! She was quite cross that I hadn't started already. I do have a potty one that sings but he's using it as a toy

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TittyGolightly · 23/03/2017 16:14

Health visitors suck in my experience. My friend is one. She happily spent over a year training her little one. I waited till DD asked for pants etc and was done in less than a week. Hers regularly has accidents years later whilst mine has had no problems.

I wouldn't take her advice about anything.

teaandbiscuitsforme · 23/03/2017 18:35

I keep saying this on here but it's the only advice I have - I was recommended the Oh Crap potty training book and have found it really good. The rationale made sense so we went with it. Just trained DD who is 23 months. Good luck!

bitteroldhag · 23/03/2017 19:13

I'm also a big believer in waiting until they are ready.

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Chickpearocker · 23/03/2017 19:16

Thank you teaandbiscuits will have a look at that book, the big question is how do you know when they are ready? Will they ask to use the potty ?

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Ecureuil · 23/03/2017 19:21

When DD1 was 2.3 she said 'I don't want to wear nappies anymore, I want to wee on the toilet like a big girl'. That's how I knew she was ready! Bar the very odd accident she was dry within 48 hours.

Ghostofasmile · 23/03/2017 19:23

sometimes they do, other times you just tend to know by the amount of interest they have in the toilet, how much they can follow instructions and understand rewards and if they are able to be reasoned with.

It's easier to explain the concept to a 3 year old than a 2 year old.

teaandbiscuitsforme · 23/03/2017 19:24

DD started shouting no every time I tried to change her nappy. She had no idea she needed a wee or anything like that but got it within a couple days. She was just insistent she didn't want nappies any more! If you get the book, she talks about when she considers a child to be ready.

jazzandh · 23/03/2017 19:45

when you change her nappy sit her on the toilet for a few minutes with a book/toy and see what happens.

DS1 had no signs, but I was fed up with changing nappies - so I stripped him off put a few pottys about downstairs and sat him on every so often. Once I caught a wee he was "rewarded" - think we did banana chips and that was it. 2 days and he was clean and dry in the day. He was 22 months.

I do take the point that at 3 or whenever it may be quicker, but that ca be a whole years worth of nappies to change! Give it a go!

TittyGolightly · 23/03/2017 19:51

I'm going to enrol DC (6) for A levels. Balls to waiting till she's 18. Who has time for that?!

organixeveryday · 23/03/2017 20:02

I've been offering the potty at every nappy change to DS 17 months for a month or so now. He regularly does wees , but a poo is yet to appear.
He has 3 nappies a day, wake up, lunch and bedtime

organixeveryday · 23/03/2017 20:02

Oh and he asks for "potty" and knows "wee and pooooooo"

jazzandh · 23/03/2017 20:16

Well I'm guessing that it takes a little more time and effort to "train" a child earlier rather than later which is why some parents chose to wait until a child is "ready".

the current determination of "ready" being when a child is old enough to feel disgust at sitting in a bulky wet and dirty nappy and "asks" to use a toilet!

Can't say that either of mine seem to have suffered for it, it just made life for them a little more pleasant really. As a parent I had the "inconvenience" of taking a travel potty about or making sure they had "done a wee" before they went anywhere...but really not a big deal.

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Chickpearocker · 23/03/2017 20:42

I think I will wait a few months, he gets very upset if he wets himself on the occasion that I haven't put him in a nappy, I really don't want him upset. Thanks for the replies guys.

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