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Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

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LucyDeSpiderman · 13/04/2010 10:55

DS turned 2 last month. He has always spent a lot of time with his nappy off when we're at home, and we've had a potty in the living room for a fair few months now, simply so that he knew where/what it is when the time came to potty train. Sometimes when he'd ask for a nappy on because he needed a poo or wee I'd tell him to try sitting on his potty, but he's always said he can't so I've put a nappy on him. I hadn't been planning on potty training yet, I was waiting until I was certain he was ready, and tbh I didn't have a clue how to go about it when the time came . Well, this morning he had taken his nappy off & after a while he came and told me he needed a poo so, as usual, I told him to try sitting on his potty fully expecting him to try then tell me he couldn't do it. He sat down for a while, got up & inspected the potty (empty), repeated it, then sat down as my phone rang, and by the time I'd ended the phonecall he'd pooed IN HIS POTTY . We danced & sang like loonies, I told him he was brilliant etc, we rang my dp to tell him, and my mom & dad, and everybody told him how proud of him they were. Since then he's done 2 wees on there, the first when he asked me for a nappy and I asked him he wanted to try on the potty, which he did, and the second he did completely by himself with no prompting from me. Each time I've praised him & we've danced & shouted about how good it was to go to the toilet in the potty.
So what should I do next? Does this mean he's 'ready' for potty training? Should we buy him some pants, or training pants? Help me please

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Itsjustafleshwound · 13/04/2010 11:07

Sounds as if he is ready - he has the vocab and the idea..

I found training pants a nightmare and would progress to normal undies (not boxers - pants with elasticated legs and waistband). Training pants are like nappies, but don't have the absorbancy or 'hold' that nappies have ... accident are a lot harder to clean up.

HTH

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