Starting potty training DS (2)

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Hello,

My little one turned 2 in august and during lockdown (should have done it then) started showing signs he is noticing when his nappy is full, will start tugging at his pull up or saying "poooo" when he's done a poop.

Where do I start with potty training? Are these signs he's ready?
What do I need? Essentials?

He attends nursery three days a week, how do I work around this? I'm not sure if it's better waiting for Christmas holidays as both me and my partner are off for three weeks and can stay in with him if needed etc?

Help please would be most appreciated

Hi,
Didn't want to read and run. Sounds like a good place to start if he is recognising when he has been to the toilet.
My DS is a similar age to yours and also goes to nursery a couple of days a week.

I am no expert and wouldnt say my DS is completely potty trained yet, but is reliably dry at home so we are making some progress. But this is what we have done so hope it helps somewhat...

Bought a potty and a little seat for the toilet so he has a choice where he wants to go. We also let him choose some 'big boy pants' which he seems to love the idea of and wears if we are at home. If going out anywhere we use pull ups, just incase of accidents.
At first we just let him run around without pants or a nappy and reminded him that if he needed the toilet that he could go on the potty. Did have a couple of accidents to start with as he wasnt sat on the potty properly and refused help to sit, but now that he has got it have had no accidents. This took us maybe 2 days to crack and now he does take himself to the potty, but still needs a bit of help with pulling down pants etc.
We are currently working with the nursery to potty train. So it may be worth asking the nursery to perhaps help when he is there?

We've used reward charts and stickers as reward everytime he goes to the toilet and our nursery is doing the same.
My DS is very shy about asking in nursery but I am 100% confident when hes with me that he will go the day without an accident.

Think the key is to just go for it and see. If it works it works, and getting the nursery on board will hopefully help encourage the confidence to ask when not at home. (Think that is where we went wrong at first as I should have been a little more pushy that he was ready - they said he was too young and weren't really listening to him when he was asking so it set us back a bit).
My only advice really is to just role with it and make it fun.

Sorry about the long rambling message back, wanted to try and answer your question as best as I could! :)
Hope it helps somewhat!

Hiya my dd also turned 2 end of July and has been trained for about 2/3 months now. To begin with, we put the potty out i. the lounge ge so it was easy to access and let her go around bare below the waist, any time she started to wee we put her on it, she seemed to catch on very quickly and was putting herself on the potty by the end of day 1. then we stated to put knickers on her with no trousers. Couple of accidents but once she realised it wasn't nice to be wet she started to use the potty again. It also took her a day or 2 to realise she had to pull her knickers down before she went but again she caught on very quickly. She only goes to the childminder once a week but they were totally on board and did exactly as I did, I just made sure I sent in spare bottoms. Its part of their job to help you with potty training if they're spending alot of time there so I wouldnt worry about that. I would just say stick to your guns and dont put pull ups or a nappy on once you start because he will get co fused and will probably take longer. Since those first few days of training we've had no accidents, and she is now using the toilet with help to get on and off. If he's ready he should pick it up quickly, if not then go back to nappies for a few weeks and try again. Best of luck

forgot to add - if he pees on the floor dont make a big deal out of it, just say its ok dont worry and remind him about going on the potty when he needs to go. And when he does go successfully give loads of praise!

You should talk to the nursery and say you are thinking of starting toilet training and ask what they suggest you do. They might give you some steps to do on a weekend and then they will continue the training when he is at nursery. This way both of you are in the save page and your DS will get a consistent experience which should help him. The nursery should be well placed to give you advice as they have helped toilet train hundreds of kids.