Sooo how do you potty train a child that hides?!

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Day 1 of “oh crap”. DD is naked from waist down. She held her wee, very calmly, this morning for 3 hours (we have a camel it seems). Then when she trotted to a corner out it came in 2 seconds flat. Didn’t get her to the potty. We are now 4 wees later (she def has control) and each wee seems to be done as she is leaving the room/ going to a corner/ generally out of sight. No wees in the living room or on our laps/sofa etc. We have missed every sodding wee!!! She tends to do massive short bursts and I can’t bloody get there!
The book insists there are signs. But what about if the sign is they edge out of the room? When I follow her with the potty she changes her mind.
So, I have learnt that a) she can control her bladder and b) she seems to need privacy.

I now have the potty in the hallway and each time she wees on the floor I have pointed and told her that it needs to go in the potty. She is 33months. I think she is ready because she tells me when the nappy is dirty, has been taking her nappy off at the childminder around other potty trained children to copy and she understands us.
I know it is only day 1 but the way the book reads we should be at least getting her to a potty in time!

The last wee, she went to the potty in the hall and I pretended not to look. She walked over to it, pointed then shut the door and pissed on the floor So I feel it isn’t behaviour not a lack of understanding. She isn’t a girl that likes change so I knew this would be an effort.

Any encouragement? She is getting tired and I’m getting ratty. We have cabin fever. I’m not giving up yet I’m just finding it hard

Chocolate worked wonders here....

I’ve given up on any particular kind of method. She is getting cross with herself when she wees on the floor now, I don’t think she is doing it deliberately. So I just say “wee goes in the potty” and that is that. Although today I noticed her straining and asked her if she needed a poo. She said yes and did one on the potty for me! The look of panic on her face when it plopped! I think that must be progress...even if wee is proving much harder for her to manage. Probably because she holds it so long!

I'm afraid I've given up on a method too. Did 6 days of 'oh crap' constantly watching dd and rushing her to the potty when she started weeing but wasn't making much progress, certainly not enough to be able to leave the house.

I didn't feel she was very aware of what she was doing, not expecting her to tell me I need the potty but she wasn't telling me she was weeing or had weed or had any interest in her wee. And she is totally capable of doing so. Even tried rewards but she's just not interested. Also difficult as I have a younger dd to look after.

I wanted to try and prepare her a bit more but didn't want to completely abandon potty training so I am now using training pants on her and getting her to sit on the potty as often as possible. The training pants make her feel wet and she has actually told me a couple of times that her big girl pants are wet so she's starting to be a bit more aware now of when she has weed. I try and get her on the potty about 45mins-1hr after she's had a drink practising pulling her pants up and down and most of the time she goes. Sometimes doesn't say anything, sometimes stands up and looks in the potty and says she's weed, yesterday she said I'm having a wee wee while she was doing it.

Might not be ideal and might be a slow and steady approach but I'm going with it for the time being. Looking forward to some nicer weather too so she can go pants free in the garden