DD is 3 I September. Thought we'd have a crack at potty training. I'm pretty sure she knows when she's doing something so I figured: no nappy, sit her on potty/toilet if it looks like she's about to do something, sticker if she does anything, no fuss if she doesn't or if she has an accident - and just see how we go.
Spent a few weeks talking about it. Bought pants, she chose a Peppa Pig training seat. She's very verbal and we've had lots of spontaneous chat about doing all wees and poos on toilet and no more nappies.
We've never had a lot of cooperation with actually sitting on potty (which we've had a while). She isn't a very cooperative child, so if I suggest sitting on it it's "no". She has sat on it, occasionally, usually for quarter of a second then says "finished!" and that's it. Thought we'd just give it a crack anyway.
She won't do anything on either the potty or the toilet. She has spent 3 hours asking me to change her nappy. At one point I managed to get her to sit on the potty and she kept standing up and asking me to change her nappy. She also wouldn't take her pants off. Eventually, distracted by a story, she did a tiny amount of poo in pants while sitting on the potty. Fine. Got changed, played and read stories, till she started asking me to change her nappy again - repeatedly, beginning to get distressed. I offered potty and toilet - "no".
Cracked, because she was getting upset, and immediately got poo and wee in nappy. So she knows when she needs to go and can hold it - just will not do it on potty or toilet, despite apparent earlier enthusiasm for trying.
It's been four hours and I feel like I'm doing it wrong. I expected accidents, but she just - won't. Don't know what to do. She's back to naked (didn't put pants back on after first pair). But if she won't sit on potty what do I do?!