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Child afraid of toilet help needed!!

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gibsonpic · 18/04/2024 22:54

Hello everyone 👋
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. My son is 3.5 and we are in the middle of toilet training him. I kept him off playschool for one week while we started the process and he slowly started to get the hang of things. Still plenty accidents however my main issue is that he is so afraid of the toilet. He has been using a small training toilet with a pretend flush and for the first few days I would sit on the big toilet beside him to encourage him to go. When he pees in his toilet he loves emptying it down the big toilet and flushing it, so it's not that he has a fear of the flush sound. He screams and shakes when we ask him to try the toilet, and he won't use it at school either. This has resulted in a few accidents in school. We are going on holiday in a few weeks and I'm very nervous about the entire situation. We cannot take the training toilet with us so I fear I am in for a week of toilet related misery 🥴 if anyone has any advice I would really really appreciate it thank you! X

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Usernamerequired123 · 22/04/2024 11:28

Following- my LO is 3 and 2 months and is so scared will hold his wee until we give in and make him wear his nappy. If we leave him without nappy he'd hold in for hours then just go on the floor and cry his lungs out for a nappy.

We have the small potty seat as well as the one that goes over the toilet. He refuses to sit on either.

I'm not sure what I'm meant to do.

InTheRainOnATrain · 22/04/2024 11:34

Take a potty into school. Get a travel potty for holiday. Carry on as you are with no pressure to use the big toilet but encourage him to use his potty in the bathroom and empty it and flush himself. He’ll get there. Airplane bathroom if you’re flying might be tricky because of lack of space but go right before boarding and put him in a pull up, which I’d do anyway with any newly trained kid as you never know if you’ll be stuck in your seats for ages because of delays or turbulence.

Weallnamechangesometimes · 22/04/2024 11:38

Get a travel potty for holiday you can take. Leave him to use the potty he is happy with. Buy another potty for nursery. Make sure you have a family loo seat/stable kid seat for your toilet at home and a step. Give him time and don't pressure him.

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