Potty Training During Lockdown!

[LunaHardy]

So now seems like a better time than any and I've decided to potty train my 2yo dd during quarantine! I haven't potty trained for about 10 years and that was with my ds. I've bought her a potty a few weeks ago just to get her used to it but she's still not keen on sitting on it. Any tips please?

@Jannt86 We ended up dry overnight by chance almost. I’ve got a baby as well so didn’t want to be up even more at night, but after about a fortnight of training he was also dry most mornings. After a few more nights we risked no nappy and now he’s dry overnight!

Oh and we followed Oh Crap in the daytimes.

Hi! We have had two nights dry nappy when he hasn’t woken up, amd two nights when he woke at 10pm/midnight, took some milk and asked to go to the toilet! I was astounded!

Our child is a camel. No wee at all this morning despite drinking plenty.

Literally had him on and off the potty for the past hour but it's eaten into his nap time. Still no wee. Have just put him in nappy for his nap now and hope the seal will be broken for this afternoon.

@babycornpleaseyeah I'm pretty sure my daughter will pee on those, she pees in normal pants so it's not going to be any different.
Oh this part is frustrating as shes got the rest of it perfectly bless her x

Had a massive regression the last few days, He was always using the potty and rarely an accidents for most of this week. However, yesterday there a few accidents when he was busy and today he hasn’t used the potty unprompted at all and is mostly just weeping wherever he is or whatever he is doing without asking. 😔

So, I got him to help me make a reward chart this afternoon and he liked that idea and got two stars within the first hour.
However, after even with constant prompting he’s just weed in his sandpit, just stood and watched it!
Is regression like this normal? And what can I be doing to put it right when he was doing so well before?!

So we’ve had no accidents today yet. And she just asked to go for a wee! Red alert 🚨 for poo though as didn’t do one yesterday

Just forgot to say, whenever I ask if he needs a wee, he just says no and refuses. 🤷🏻‍♀️
I know he’s only two in a few weeks but I feel like putting him back in nappies would just be silly but if he’s not going to use the potty at all, what do I do?

Caz we never ask, we just prompt so something like "you look like you need a wee, let's try then we can go back in the sandpit". Or "we are going to go for a wee then have lunch". So very matter of fact. We do get resistance though!

We are commando and having lots of accidents. He has nailed it bare bum but just weeing all the time in his shorts now!

@Caz1412 I think regressions are normal. Esp when novelty wears off

I thought we were doing well this morning and as I was texting my mother to tell her he weed all over the sofa
We went for a walk in the buggy and I wasn't planning to let him out so would have been 40 minutes tops but he wanted to get out and walk. He said he was warm which I think means he feels it coming and I panicked a little and whipped his trousers down in the road and had him wee against a pole second time he said it I managed to be a bit more discreet but it was up against someone's wall.
Is that out of order, it wouldn't bother me if it was a very small child but other people might care. If so what else are you meant to do he's too small to make it home.

We've just started too, my son is 2.5 years, following the 'oh crap' book but he just hates the potty, starts crying and says 'don't like' whenever he sees it, I have done several pees on it myself (!) and we played pouring water in it as suggested (which he did) but doesn't seem to have helped, haven't managed to get him to the potty when he's peeing as he just cries, fights us and runs away....my husband caught his poo while chasing him with the potty and put it in the potty and we showed him and said how we'll he'd done. I think we'd have to physically restrain him on the potty to get him to actually do one on there...which we obviously don't want to do! So basically any hints or what are we doing wrong?! Want to start tomorrow better!

I did hold DS in place for the first one with much fighting but it turns out he just wants to stand, I probably shouldn't but I'm allowing it. His aim has improved massively in a few days but the main problem is the last few drops hitting his trousers which are then wet in his mind and need to be changed, like it isn't hard enough changing the actual accidents.

@user704 we had that with my first child. Would freak out at it. I decided to leave it and try again in a few months. I didn’t want it to become a battle or for him to get an ingrained negative association of it. You could just try him on the toilet

First totally dry day today! And she’s asked to go for a wee a few times. One time she asked to go for a poo but it was just a fart. I’m still pleased though as it means she was up for doing a poo in toilet. Also managing to get all the wees on the toilet so no more horrible potty

Sorry, @user714205 I got your name wrong

Thanks @TwistyHair I haven't got one of the seats for the loo but will, I did just try him on the loo now when he peed will brushing his teeth but had the same reaction! He did just wipe my bum (cheek!) for me though after I had a wee on the potty....so he's not adverse to others using it just not him! Will keep going for a few days but also worried about it being a battle so will bear that in mind and try again later if no success.

Maybe he’ll like the loo more. The thing with going to the loo is that it’s a battle you could never win. Even if you wanted to make it a battle. So there’s just no point. You could try bribery? We did that for the last time we tried with my son and it worked well. 1 chocolate button for a wee and 2 for a poo. But I think it also only worked so well because he was also ready to learn. The previous two times we tried were a total disaster

Go little twistyhair! !

Thanks! She just asked to go for another wee and poo at bedtime. She had her nappy on so that was good. Still no poo though... but she at least did a wee again after asking to go. Something is definitely clicking with her. Just praying for no poonami tomorrow

I’m sure she will get there soon.

@user714205 my little one was the same with the potty initially, he don’t think he really understood what it was about but I brought it just after his first birthday. Mind you, I only used to sit him on it before a bath because he had a habit of weeing and point in the bath. 😆

This helped though, I even put it in the bath to catch his wee a few times 😂

I’d try what I could to make the potty fun, no pressure and don’t push with the training until he’s overcome his fear of it.

He may just prefer the toilet though, bonus!

I’m certainly not pushing the potty, keep talking about how he can also go on the big toilet if he wants “like dB/DH” and he seems to like that idea, asks for big toilet now!

How is everyone doing? We’ve had no accidents today and she asks to go for a wee. But. No poo. She definitely needs one because she’s said she needs a poo. But she’s told me she’s scared

Argh we had another hour back and forth to the potty coz he clearly needed a poo and eventually he did it in his pants... don’t get me wrong he was stood next to the potty telling me he needed to go and some of it was that I wasn’t quick enough getting his trousers down but so frustrating! I also think he prefers to poo on the big toilet, but we were playing in the garden so I didn’t want to be going in and out to the toilet. Maybe next time if I know he needs a poo I will just have to stay inside in the hope that we have more success...

Hope everyone else is having more success!