Mumsnet users share their best potty training tip or trick with Huggies Pull Ups

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Potty training can feel like a daunting task that consists of tantrums, tears and mess. With so many different products and advice out there it can be difficult to know where to start. Potty training is a great milestone to be celebrated as your child takes a big step towards become a big girl or boy. The potty training experts at Huggies® Pull-Ups® would love to know your best tips and tricks for an easy transition to the toilet.

Here’s what HUGGIES® have to say: “Trusted by millions of parents and carers around the world, HUGGIES® Pull Ups® Potty Training underwear supplies all the features you need to train in a safe and consistent way. Take a look at our steps to potty training success here”

“Perhaps the biggest achievement in potty success is recognising the need to go. To help little ones on this journey, when little accidents happen, the unique learning layer in Huggies® Pull-Ups® briefly mimics the feeling of real wet underwear, before quickly drawing the moisture away. It’s a feature of the product that many people don’t realise exists, but it’s one of the best tips for helping little ones learn wet from dry in a protected environment, so that they ultimately learn to stay dry on their own and can progress to pants quicker.”

Perhaps you’ve found training pants to be your potty training saviour? Maybe you have a potty both upstairs and downstairs so that you’re ready for anything? Or is your biggest tip to just let your little one take control?

Whatever your best tip and trick for potty training, share them on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where one winner will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

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The best advice I wa given was to wait until they're ready. We tried with DS but he had a lit of accidents. We stopped and tried again a few months later and he took to it almost immediately. So 'don't rush would be my tip.

The best tip I found was not to get too frustrated it seems to just click with them all of a suddenbut if you lose patience it will become a thing that both you and them dread.

The school holidays when they are off nursery for a solid amount of time and you can stay near home as much as possible. They need to be quite good at communicating too; ta not enough that they can say wee wee and poo, they need to be confident communicators. Also kids can tend to learn one thing at a time so if their brains are busy doing language development, they can find another area of development challenging to learn simultaneously

My health visitor also recommended bribing/rewarding my kids with chocolate buttons for using the potty/toilet. One for a wee, two for a poo. It worked for us!

We bought the Summer Infant My Size Potty, it's looks like real toilet for toddlers and my DS loves it! We also got him a potty training book from Amazon when he was 2 to introduce the idea.
He's now 2.5yrs old, we haven't pushed potty training and let him choose when he wants to take his nappy off and go. It's now becoming more and more frequent. Patience is definitely key to potty training 👍🏻

My top tip for potty training is not to start until you know they are ready and mature enough - there’s no race despite what it seems and waiting till they’re good and ready avoids a lot of the stress and aggravation when you start too early !
Also try to pick a week when you don’t have any appointments outside the house / that way you’re not not picking up toddler , spare underwear etc and carrying it all around everywhere !

I used a star chart which seemed to help and when we first started we made sure we was going to be at home for the first few days

Don't start to early, they will learn eventually.

My husband and I took a week off work and stayed in the entire time to potty train our son. We put him straight into underpants and just kept encouraging the them giving positive praise...he did it within 2 days!

spend a weekend in the house and let them run around with no nappy/underwear on. Sit them on the potty every 30 mins and see if they need to go. If they pee on the potty lots of praise. x

Leaving a potty around

Wait until you are ready. We put ours off for a little while as we were moving house and it suggests not to do it when your child has too many changes going on. So my little girl was 2.5. Done in a week!

Not to stress about it as your stress communicates itself to the child. It will come - persevere!

I have always left the potty lying around in the month or so before initiating training. Then its not like a foreign object suddenly appearing in the child's life!
I then encourage sitting on the potty at the first sign that the child is aware of weeing or pooing or better still that its about to happen.
I encourage them to watch TV and just chill its no big deal either way, but heaps of praise if they happen to produce 'the goods'

Be patient and wait until they are completely ready for it. My boy loves watching clips on youtube so we also found that watching clips about potty training helped to introduce it into his life.

For little boys try a stool to stand on next to the toilet, and a ping pong ball in the toilet. It can be fun aiming at the ball ( teaches them to aim correctly too).

Remember there is no rush, a child will let you know when ready,then expect little accidents but keep praising and when sitting on potty sing songs and read to them.

A plastic step and toiler seat, a little sit on in morning and at night. Pull ups are great for out and about.

My first little boy was dry night and day by two and a half and we are about to embark on the journey with his little brother. For me the most crucial thing was patience. We used to download potty training videos on YouTube kids (he loved the Elmo one) and chat about it in a very positive light frequently.
When it came to using the potty, again, patience was key. And CRUCIAL for the first wee. No pressure, just reassurance. And when that first wee finally came we did the biggest dance ever! He was so spurred on and motivated it just went from strength to strength!

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