Is a 4 day weekend enough time?

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Thought about taking the plunge this weekend with our 2 year 9 month old to try and get her potty trained as we have 4 days off work before she goes back to nursery.

Realistically, is this enough time to at least crack it enough to send her to nursery for them to continue to enforce?

Also, any tips please would be great!

Thanks

I had pretty much cracked it in that time as I chose a Easter weekend to do it at a similar age .. we did then got Covid so had the following week off but most was achieved in the first 4 days .. go for it ..

@Zelda93 what approach did you take it
You don't mind me asking? Did you go naked from the waist down and then put pants on after the 4 days? She's back at nursery day 5 so can't really ask for her to be naked on the bottom!

Yep that’s how we did it- oh crap method,
naked for a few days, no pull ups or nappies except at bedtime and nursery helped alongside

If the child is ready, they can crack it in two days (my experience). They don't need to be naked; new pants that they're proud of and don't want to wet is a better incentive. Just keep the potty in the room where you are, and ask them often if they want to try using it.

If she is showing signs of readiness/interest and if nursery are willing and able to support then give it a try. But don't see it as a failure if it isn't the right time either. Good luck

Sorry, meant to add that if she's at nursery next week then I'd suggest straight to knickers as she can't go in naked and might be too confusing to go naked to knickers and new environment

I'd say give it a go. We just did Oh Crap with our 24mo and I'm honestly not sure if it worked or not. Day 1-4 were horrendous - I was in tears. Honestly wanted to give up - he had pooped 7 times in one day and we hadn't caught any of them. The book talks loads about holding poop and not having any poop but nothing about what to do if they have tiny poops they are unaware of.

Then day 5 it kind of clicked. No accidents day 6, 7 or 8. Then went to childminder and it's been at least one accident a day. We don't have any accidents at home. So we haven't really cracked it, but I also feel like we've gone too far to go back. I wish we'd left it a little later and now don't know what to do. But your little one is older so might be easier.

Also the OhCrap lady has a podcast I wish I'd listened to before we started.

My twins had just turned three. I explained that they needed to start using pants instead of nappies as when they started pre-school it would make the teacher's job easier and discussed it with them quite a few times in the weeks before we started. They had seen how to use a toilet for a long time before so it wasn't some big surprise or scary. I just put them in pants and went straight to using the foldable padded toilet seat things that you can put onto a regular toilet seat to make them child sized. It worked out fine pretty much immediately. There were a few accidents at pre-school but I think that was more about not wanting to stop playing to go to the toilet. We just completely bypassed using a potty and went straight to using the regular toilet with the folding seat.