Potty training - 2.5 year old doesn’t even acknowledge he’s weeing

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I knew potty training wouldn’t be a breeze but is this normal?

we aren’t having accidents as such my toddler literally just wees and doesn’t even seem to acknowledge it. We are following oh crap and on day 2 so appreciate wasn’t expecting progress but he just plays and pisses or craps. No tell. He’s doing it in motion.

in there any point persevering? Is he just not ready? He doesn’t seem to even care he’s weed and we’ve tried incentives etc but it doesn’t matter as he doesn’t seem to know he’s even weeing. He’ll sit on the potty happily but no wees or poos in it.

Yeah my DD is like this. Never "needs" the potty. We just persevere as it seems a bad lesson to go back to nappies. DD is 2 and 4 months. Going out wees, coming home wees, before bed wees etc. She goes as soon as we put her on the potty. If she has an accident we say "wee goes in the potty" to reinforce the message and she has to help clean up.

Ps I'm not a big fan of the "when they're ready" message, kids were all potty trained early when we were younger. It's about parenting.

He’s not ready. You can either preserve and have months of stress and wee/poo everywhere and possibly end up with withholding issues, or just put him back in nappies until he shows some interest in it.
Mine were “potty trained” when they were ready and it happened within 5 days with both, and being completely truthful a handful of accidents after that.
Maybe I’m a lazy parent but I prefer my method! They were both out of nappies well before starting school so what’s the big deal.

I tried the ‘Oh Crap’ method and it took about a week to start to see any progress. And even then it was more about us seeing her signs and then getting her to the potty. Just keep going - it’s a learning process for you as well as your child.

ime it doesn’t sound like he’s ready ,I’d give him a couple of weeks/ months and try again .

Sounds like he doesn’t have the muscle control yet .

On day 3. Amazing improvement he is now going to the potty himself, couple of dribbles sometimes before he runs to it. Only concern is nursery they use a toilet so he can’t just go whenever he wants unless he asks….

Yes, and had a million accidents as a result, or a mother constantly putting you on the potty. People will proclaim they've potty trained their 1- 2 year old child when infact they haven't at all.

It sounds like he isn't ready, and that the feeling isn't there yet op. I tried dc at a similar age, and realised similar. I retried it closer to 3, and it was easy, took a really short time, and only one accident, and that was because we were stuck in a drive through queue. Dc also went straight to one of those toilet seats with the steps on, and didn't take to the potty. I'm all for waiting until they at least have the sensation to know they need to go. All children are different.