How do you move from potty to loo?

[poshsinglemum]

Please can anyone give me some basic pinpoints as to potty train effectively. I''ve no idea where to start. Thanks.

Is your child showing signs of being ready, i.e. awareness of being wet/dirty etc? If so maybe its time to start.
Some people will advocate a technique whereby you stop using nappies totally (day time only) and introduce the potty at regular intervals - eventually more go in potty than on floor and after a few days they generally get the idea. There;s a more detailed description of this on here somewhere.
Didn't work for me though - I ended up with a more softly softly approach, with DD not wearing nappies for chunks of time (usually afternoons) and very much allowing her to take the lead in using the potty - but she was nearly 3 by then and very able to communicate her needs. This way worked for us and after a few weeks of this she decided one morning that she would wear knickers and from that day has been pretty reliably dry - a few accidents are pretty inevitable.

I did the cold turkey method. No nappies (apart from night time obviously) from day 1. We had 2 attempts at potty training ds. The first time he was clearly not ready, accidents and witholding pee until he wet himself, despite reward charts and treats. I stopped after day 2 because he was getting too stressed about it. We waited a couple of months and tried again.

In the build up to potty training we had the potty around so he got used to seeing it, let him sit on it fully clothed and let him sit on it naked before bathtime if he wanted to. He was quite fond of showers and always peed as soon as the water hit him. SO when he did this we would say "look you're doing a pee pee", so he knew what it was.

Our second attempt was a breeze he had 2 accidents over the first 2 days then has had none since and we are about 6 weeks on now. We did not use reward charts this time but offered a couple of chocolate buttons for peeing and pooing in the potty.

Good luck! Don't get too stressed about it. THey are all ready at different times.