Is your child using their own initiative to go to the toilet or are you just putting them on throughout the day?

[jll123456]

We've been trying to potty train our 2.5 year old DD since the new year. She's mostly dry (no big accidents) but keeps doing dribbles/starts of pees in her pants, and then will do the rest once we get her on the toilet. However this is sometimes happening 4/5 times a day.

She does all poops in the toilet and although we have her in a nappy overnight, 99% of the time its dry in the morning.

However she very rarely actually asks to go to the toilet, and its mostly us just putting her on the toilet throught out the day.

First time potty training, so not sure if this means shes not ready or if we just keep putting her on the toilet for now, and she'll start telling us when she needs to go with time?

Any advice/experiences welcome! Thanks.

If it's just dribbles that's a good sign as it shows she is holding it and doesn't want to pee in her pants. Does she tell you at that point, or are you just noticing it when you happen to put her on the toilet? I think it is a case of watching her more carefully so you can tell when she needs to go, then you can tell her she needs to go. If you catch it before the dribble she will find it easier to associate the feeling of needing to go with it being time to go to the toilet. My recently trained DS is pretty easy because either he asks, or he wanders around clutching his crotch in a hilariously obvious way. But e.g. your DD might just get a bit fidgety or something.

@BarnacleBeasleyWell its probably like a palm size amount of pee. Sometimes she'll tell us, but mostly its until we notice and then take her to the toilet.

But yeah you're probably right. We maybe just need to be a bit more aware and then she'll get there on her own. Thanks.

Ours has been trained for nearly a year and still sometimes dribbles. I think she's holding it as long as she can because she doesn't want to stop playing, so by the time she tells us she needs to go she's already dribbled a bit. If we tell her it's time to go instead of waiting for her to tell us, there's no dribbling.

They're still learning how to use those muscles and testing out how long they can hold it. Don't go back to nappies!