Anyone else start and give up on the same day?

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I decided to try potty training with my DS. He is 3 in a couple of months, got good vocab, can follow instructions, will sit on potty or toilet seat if given right incentive. Took his nappy off this morning and he just seemed to pee constantly. He managed one in his potty, took it proudly to the toilet to flush it away and weed again on the way (on the floor)! He literally seems to pee every 10 minutes.

So nappy is back on.

I did the first time back at Easter. DD was 2.7 or 8 at the time. We (me) lasted half a day and she went through around 9 pairs of pants in a few short hours. She'd been using the potty without prompt whilst still in nappies for a while so I thought it'd be a doddle (ha!). Straw that broke the camel's back was seeing her stand in the garden and drop a poo to the ground without a second thought.

Second time around, we started a week or so after her 3rd birthday in August and she got it more or less immediately.

My mother keeps telling me we should start with DD age 18 months

DS1 was 2.9 and DS2 was over 3.

I really strugged with my eldest DS (now 7 yo) and only just stopped bedwetting. He used to have loads of accidents when he went into undies. My youngest DS just turned 3 was completely dry by 2.6. I first tried him around 2.4 but he wasn't having it. I tried for a day then put him back in nappies. Waited a couple of months and he decided he wanted to go to the toilet himself. He was trained in less than 3 days.

I think you need to wait until your DS is ready to do it for himself. I feel that I made it harder for DS 1 by trying to make him do it rather than waiting until he was ready.

Good luck though, whatever you do, it can be a difficult time

Thanks for this. Thinking about it, whenever I have mentioned it to him over the last couple of weeks, he has told me that he doesn't want to do it. I thought I'd go for it anyway as he seems ready in every other way. I shall take the advice and wait until he is a bit more ready (hopefully sometime before his 18th birthday!).

toilet smarties (or other much loved sweet!) leave them in the bathroom and only give them one when they've done a wee in the potty/toilet! i used to give ds2 2 if he'd done a poo!

ds2 is now 3.4 and only now would i say he's toilet trained and we've been doing it since May!!! (other 2 dc were a doddle compared to him!)

See if the sweets work or else put him back in pull ups and still encourage him! ( i know peole hate pull ups but i hate 9 pairs of wet pants every day!!)