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Potty training

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

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Liz79 · 31/05/2010 15:04

DD is coming 2.5 now and as its half term and DH is off work we thought we'd train her now.

This morning she got a present which was big girl vests and knickers and she gave all her cloth nappies to her baby brother (6 wks).

SO far we have had 2 wees on the potty, she took herself there. 4 wees and 1 poo in her knickers. We keep asking her repeatedly if she needs wee/poo/potty and she always says no. Soon after she will inevitably have an accident. She is getting stickers and a reward chart.

How are we doing? Is this fairly typical? She hasn't yet told us she needs to go.

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anothersleeplessnight · 31/05/2010 18:25

They do have accidents the first day.I would give it another day or two and see if it improves. If not, it could be that she's just not ready yet. Leave it a couple of weeks and try again.

NinjaChipmunk · 03/06/2010 13:15

my ds is 2 and a half and he wees when you put him on the loo but so far no poos there (his new toilet seat arrived yesterday so we'll see if that changes anything) but i think he hasn't yet got the hang of saying he wants to go. i think it just takes time and patience. we are starting to have more hits than misses but so far its because i've noticed he needs a wee not him, however i shall slowly be leaving it longer and longer so he can work it out for himself. having never done this before i have no idea if i'm doing it 'right' but as long as neither of us are stressed i think we're doing ok. sounds like you are about the same as us?

millingtonsmummy · 03/06/2010 21:55

Liz79 how are things going?

We're doing exactly the same in our house this week! DD is 2.4, half term so no nursery, DH at home and we have a baby brother who's 3 weeks!

DD hasn't yet taken herself to the potty to wee but I keep putting her on and every now and then she does a wee. Today we had no accidents, well as long as I don't count the wee in the paddling pool which she told me she'd already done I think I need to back off a bit now as I'm on her case constantly getting her to sit on the potty or asking her if she needs to go.

I thought it would be easier than this!!

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Liz79 · 03/06/2010 22:12

hmm mon and tues was ok, yesterday she only managed a poo on the potty and only cos I spotted it about to start and got her on it in time

today was the best day, it is a very slow process. We have just been asking her all the time if she needs it. A few times we tried to say come on time for potty and just put her on it, sometimes this was ok but other times she gets upset so we just leave it. My friend suggested putting her on it every hour using stickers as bribery if she gets upset, with a second sticker or chocolate if she produces something.

I don't know what to do. I haven't really read up on this like I have just about every other aspect of parenting. I am almost tempted to buy potty training in a week by Gina Ford.

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Liz79 · 03/06/2010 22:24

ps her best friend is about 6-7 weeks older and is generally dry in the day. Today her mum asked if I could mind her while she went to the hairdresser. This appeared to help a bit because DD wanted to do what her friend did. Same friend is coming to play again tomorrow

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MegBusset · 03/06/2010 22:34

Honestly, if t'were me I would put her back in nappies and leave it a few months. I tried with DS1 when he was 2.10 and it was much like you describe -- only by coincidence would anything end up in the potty. After four days of wiping up accidents I put him back in nappies.

Tried again at 3.2 and he got wees on day 1, poos took a little longer but it was SO much easier because he was that much older. With DS2 I'm not even going to think about it before he's 3.

millingtonsmummy · 04/06/2010 13:37

OK I know it's only lunchtime but DD has asked for the potty twice today, 1 successful wee, 1 successful poo and no accidents so far. Yiippppeeeee!!

I think there's a lot to be said for being surrounded by children who are 'dry'. I used to work in a nursery and don't remember potty training any of the children I looked after being difficult past the first 3 days. Liz79 hope your playdate is proving helpful again today!

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Liz79 · 04/06/2010 20:41

3 wees on potty and 1 poo.
4 wee accidents and 1 poo.

We are improving but very slowly. I think it is probably because we are being a little slap dash and giving her too much of the responsibility. The accidents did (all but 1) when she was playing in the garden with her friend and may have been distracted. The first we she did she did a bit on the floor but then managed to hold the rest in until she got to the potty. She is definatly capable, its just getting it out of her!

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somethinganything · 08/06/2010 10:52

Hi, have just found this thread having tentatively begun potty training my DD who will be 2 and a half at the end of the month. She's also got a younger sister (3 months). (See my other, completely clueless thread with qus about potty training...)

How are you all getting on? And what do you think about bribes for wees/poos in the potty? (My friend swears by smarties and she potty trained both hers by the time they were 2 - but I can't help feeling offering chocolate as a reward seems a bit wrong. Any thoughts?

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Liz79 · 08/06/2010 14:28

lol I know what you mean something. We started with a sticker reward chart but had to up it and start giving her a sticker just for sitting on it when we asked, or for trying to get there in time etc. Chocolate is now given when she produces something on the potty, and seems to be working. That or she is just starting to get it. She had 9 accidents at nursery yesterday and I felt so sad for her as she was doing well with only 3 on Sunday. Only 1 accident today so far and that may be my fault. She went running to the front room whining. I told her to be quiet and come out as that is where her baby brother was sleeping. Unfortunately the potty was also in there. When I saw her she was all wet I am confident we are getting there. Soft play on friday.....

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maxybrown · 09/06/2010 09:43

I guess when they are too busy they will forget much more often in the early days - hence nursery issue?

DS sat on the potty this morning when told he could listen to my ipod for few minutes he is not into chocolate at all and I know that stickers would work once or twice and that would be it. He has lots of well dones etc and loves that but I am asking him to try each time - he is not taking himself onto potty. But night time nappy is bone dry in the morning

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Liz79 · 09/06/2010 15:38

She only had that 1 accident all day yesterday

She has been to nursery today but only for the morning (was all day on mon), and she only had 1 accident and they said that was diarrhoea . They said she didn't try to make it to the potty but one of the carers saw her standing in the corner and looking sheepish. I am so pleased with her. Daddy forgot to take her potty with them so they went to tesco on the way and she picked a new one which is now going to live at nursery. They suggested we take hers in case she had a problem with the nursery one

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maxybrown · 09/06/2010 15:44

Oh that's good - and a supportive nice nursery too

I have admitted defeat today but bhe really isn't telling me at all

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Liz79 · 09/06/2010 22:46

I'm not sure what they did at nursery but I have mostly been asking her to sit on it when I think she must need to go (wees). With the poo she has been taking herself when she needs it. Tomorrow I am going to lengthen the lead a bit and give her more responsibility. Hopefully she will either take herself or tell me. I think at home she is likely to just go to the potty and do it.I worry that when we go out and she is strapped in the buggy she won't tell me.

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maxybrown · 09/06/2010 23:07

there is that - my DS is not telling me at all and a couple of months ago he would say oh no oh no oh no and that meant he needed a poo and would go the toilet, then he got ill for a couple of weeks and it all stopped.

Tonight I watched him intently in the living room and did not mention potty at all but then he came in and was dancing around - so I did say something then and he sat on the potty and did both so hmmmm we will see. Your DD sounds like she is on a good track though

millingtonsmummy · 10/06/2010 21:28

It's a tricky business isn't it!! I really thought DD had cracked it until today! She's not had an accident for days and even taken herself to the potty without prompting a few times. Then today we went on a nursery trip to a country park and she had a couple of accidents despite me constantly asking her if she needed to go and being told that I had the travel potty in my bag. I think the key for us is to have a potty visible at all times. Tomorrow's a new day!

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