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Almost three year old - not interested in potty training!

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MissJade27 · 22/01/2024 12:44

My little boy will be three in a couple of months. For the past few months I've tried to encourage him to try sitting on the potty or on a toilet seat on the big toilet like mommy and daddy, he will sit on the toilet briefly and almost hug you, while he's on there and laugh, but wont actually do anything.

I've since brought him some big boy pants, and decided while we were at home at any period in the day, we could take his nappy off and put pants on, just to get him started, but he becomes really upset and tells me he doesn't want to wear them. He doesn't seem bothered by having a wet nappy, he doesn't tell me if he's weeing. But he will tell me if he's having a number 2, but when i suggest going to do it on the toilet, he refuses. He doesn't seem bothered or uncomfortable.

So now I'm wondering is he not ready? He's a very forward little boy, very vocal and knows his own mind! He has older cousins and friends close to his age so knows that they go to the toilet, but he just doesn't seem bothered by it. I don't want to push him and upset him, or make it into some big thing for him.

Maybe I'm rushing it? I just seem to hear of so many children younger than him potty trained. Any tips would be so appreciated!!😊

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RvGe0915 · 05/08/2025 21:20

My 2.5 year old daughter showed interest in potty training at 2 years, did a couple of wees on potty then said didn’t like it and refused to go on potty. She understands concept of potty and toilet she plays with it and if you ask her where should she do a wee or poo she says potty or she will say toilet but she absolutely will not sit on either. Tried taking nappies away putting in girl pants or just being naked.l but she just holds wee in or asks for nappy back on.
im worried we’ve tried for so long that I’ve put her off being potty trained. What if she never gets it!? She will be starting nursery next year and I really want her trained by then but I’m running out of ideas.
we have tried leaving it and coming back to it and tried staying in. Nothing will change her mind. She has now started to say “when I’m older I use potty”
she hates having nappy changed too so it’s becoming a problem.
any suggestions?

ScaryM0nster · 05/08/2025 21:28

Not ready, or cant be bothered?

I’m confident we had a patch with our daughter along the lines of ‘nappy works fine for me thanks, this toilet/potty malarkey seems mighty inconvenient and also I don’t I’m fully get it and I’m not that into things im not good at’.

RoosterPotato · 05/08/2025 21:32

She can’t hold her wee in forever if you just don’t give her the nappies back.

Have you tried reading about the ‘oh crap’ method of potty training? Basically you decide when the time is right and all being well should be done in a couple of days (it worked with both of mine for wee, bar the odd accident, although poos took longer)

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