Oh Crap method block 1 advice needed!

[YouAndMeAndTheDevilMakesThree]

DS is 27 months and showing all the signs of readiness listed in the Oh Crap Method book. In particular he has been consistently hiding to poo for some weeks now.

However we are on day 3 of block one and not seeing any real progress. He is aware of weeing and pooing but not at all bothered about doing them on the floor. He stops what's he's doing but makes no attempt to move towards the potty, which is always close by. We had one wee in the potty yesterday but it was standing up and tbh I think he just got lucky with the direction as he was near it at the time.

I'm really not seeing any warning signals although this is partly because of lapses in my concentration. Prompting has no effect.

Also he won't be lifted onto the potty (goes stiff cries kicks) and has long finished weeing by the time he can be persuaded to sit down by himself and the lesson gets lost. He'll sit on it at other times with persusasion but won't wee or poo.

Do we:

Stick with block 1 for a few days longer?

Give up?

Try a day of block two (commando) to see if wet trousers reinforce the message a bit better?

Try a different method altogether?

Thoughts welcome!

I could have been written by me! Sorry I can't really help, we're on day 2, day 1 was bad b it today better.

I'm afraid we restrained our toddler on the potty today and then gave him duggee on the phone and he managed 2 poos and a pee, I think we might have dug ourselves a hole with the screen but I'm just happy that he actually got on it, will properly celebrate when it doesn't take 2 people to get him to actually get on it in the first place!

Just finished day 3. Got him to sit on the potty a fair but (with tv so not ideal) but no poos or wees in there

OP - I’ve only just started reading Oh Crap! How long are they supposed to spend on each block? I’m switching to this method at the weekend as the Gina Ford one wasn’t really working for us. From what I’ve gleaned progress should be rapid; maybe read around and adapt the method or switch to a different one if it’s not working for you.

By the way I’m saying this as someone who was not seeing said progress and will be shelving it all if we don’t see progress in the next 14 days. I think it works best if you decide what the ‘plan’ is and incorporate what the books tell you rather than following one method blindly (or attempting to, like we did).

To be honest, he's so young that if he's not getting it I'd just leave it and try again in a month or so. We'd tried to introduce the potty a few times with my DD and she wasn't interested. We trained her at 2 years 8 months in the end and she pretty much had it down by the end of the first day (had an accident first of all, then had a few where she started weeing but stopped herself and finished off on her potty).

I could have written your post also OP. I started the oh crap method yesterday and I struggled with getting the nappy off of my ds never mind peeing in the potty. I finally managed to distract him enough to make him forget he was nappy free but he then screamed anytime I put him in the potty and refused to sit on it. I eventually put a nappy on at teatime. I know I gave up easily but my plan is to go back to it in a week or so when I feel more prepared! I don't know how I can get him used to being naked from the waist down to allow me to look for cues never mind persuading him to sit on a potty.

I tried to potty train my son at 2 years and had exactly the same thing - just a week of puddles. I tried again 4 months later and he pretty much trained himself in a day!

Hi - I thought you were meant to move them to the potty when they wee/poo rather than have them sit on it when nothing is occurring.

Hi - I thought you were meant to move them to the potty when they wee/poo rather than have them sit on it when nothing is occurring

You are according to the book. It sounds dead easy in theory but is a fucking nightmare in practice.

Tbh we've gone a bit off piste with the oh crap method. Did 3.5 days of block 1 with not much success - no real cues and all the book had to offer was 'you're not looking hard enough'. Perhaps not but doing nothing but stare at your child for 3 days isn't hugely practical. We moved onto commando with trousers as it was that or give up entirely so figured it couldn't hurt. Actually going a bit better, DS is telling us he's doing/done a wee as he can feel the wet trousers instead of just doing a fountain of wee in front of him. So that's definitely progress.

I would just leave it, but we are in the house all day anyway apart from walks and also have another DC on the way. So actually have a window of opportunity now that we won't get again, even if it ultimately takes a little longer.

I could have written your post at Xmas when my DC was 2.6. They were showing signs, talked about nappies, toilets and hid for a poo. I wasn't sure if they were ready but I thought that was part of being a parent and I needed to show them the next steps.

We did 3 days of block one and had only 2 maybe 3 wees if the potty, and some of those were a fluke and started to show resistance to go anywhere near a potty. So I made the decision to stop as I knew deep down they were not ready, emotionally if nothing else.

I always said I'd try again around Easter time which we did. DC was completely dry and clean in 3 days and it was so much easier for both of us.

I suppose that's the long way of saying stop if you need to and try again in a couple of months.

With my daughter (trained at 27 months) I just moved her to the potty when she started to wee. I did have to watch her a lot and we had a hard floor which gave us an aural clue too.

It's the constant moving on to the potty when they are doing it that seems to be the secret.

Both my first and second daughters were trained in 3 days doing this. Didn't take much notice of other clues tbh.