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Losing the will to live already...

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M0reGinPlease · 31/07/2018 15:39

... we've been potty training for three hours and I want to jack it in already. DD is 2.11 and very smart. We've talked about potty training, she's been excited to wear knickers, knows what the potty is for etc, but in terms of being out of nappies it's been three hours and I've had enough. She has weed through every single pair of knickers she's had on. Not a single drop in the potty. She's happy to sit on the potty, happy to try but just wees in her knickers. I know I'm not supposed to get cross but I'm really, really fed up already. She's done about six or seven wees now so plenty of opportunity to have a go at the potty but each one she's proudly come and told me she's wet herself. Can someone give me a kick up the arse please and tell me to get a grip? Oh, and can someone also tell me she'll get it please?

HebeMumsnet · 31/07/2018 15:55

Is it too early for Wine for you, OP?

It will happen, don't worry. I potty-trained first DC in the depths of winter. Took days to get anything anywhere near the target, then all of a sudden he just got it.

I second previous posters' suggestions. No pants, stay in the garden so no dramas if she wees on the grass (let's face it, the lawn needs all the help it can get in the dry weather) and cheer like she's made Olympic Gold first time she hits the target.

I would also give her a massive drink and then sit her on the potty with some toys until she gets one in there and bribe heavily with chocolate buttons, but then no one has ever nominated me for a parenting award, oddly enough. It's one method though!

Good luck!

HebeMumsnet · 31/07/2018 16:25

WOO HOO! (I reckon you can open gin now... It's SO IMPORTANT to celebrate your children's milestones with them).

HebeMumsnet · 31/07/2018 16:40

A POO, you say, OP? I reckon that's a gin cocktail, surely? Get the prosecco in the freezer for that!

HebeMumsnet · 31/07/2018 16:57

Save 'neat from the bottle' for the first poo accidentally in pants, maybe? Might take the edge off.

HebeMumsnet · 31/07/2018 17:40

Hurrah! You've definitely broken the back of it now.

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