Advice - toddler crying

[DaddyandDadda]

Hi. Nursery suggested our LO who is 26 months is ready for potty training. For the last week they have casually taken her to the potty when they change her nappy. They say she’s hasn’t wee’d in and sometimes she will sit on it and sometimes she won’t.

At home I have tried to sit her on it at various points both in clothes and without clothes and she typically cries and gets worked up. I have to put her on it and when she has occasionally tried to get on herself after a lot of bribery she struggles to get her legs over it and climb on.

What advice would anyone give? This is all new to me and don’t know what to do!

I used to strip mine off while I was running the bath and encourage them to sit on it. And they’d look at a book. It was very relaxed, no pressure.

Agree with PP let her sit on it a couple of times a day and read a story make sure there’s no pressure

Yep she won’t do that. Just screams and says “no daddy”

Leave the potty out, and don’t make her sit on it. She probably will use it at nursery

I’d explore how they are handling this at nursery!

Have you got any fun children's books about potty use? 'On My Potty' and 'I Want My Potty' have been popular in this house!

We just started out very gently with it and tbh I left it until ds was asking about the toilet. He'd have watched me go and we'd have talked a lot about using the toilet so he was familiar with the process and then when we were running his bath I'd get him to sit on it. We had more success with an adaption for the actual toilet than the potty initially. I got lots of toilet training related kids books and kept those beside the toilet so he'd sit on the toilet and we'd read them together and we did a sticker chart so any time he went in the toilet he got a sticker. If he cried or said no I didn't force it and just followed his lead. He liked Miss Rachel's toilet training book and pirate petes potty and the poo poo bum bum pee pee (think that's the right order!) book.

I initially just tried to familiarise him with it and didn't start properly potty training until he was happy to sit on it and was really interested in the books and talking about it himself.

I'd ask what's happening in nursery - it may be she's seeing other kids toilet training and is joining in with them so it's less daunting.