He just won’t!!

Give him something special to make potty fun and hide nappies

I’ve tried all sorts, stickers on the bottom of the potty, presents / favourite snacks to try and bribe him, pretending his favourite toys are using the potty. He just won’t have it 😅

We loosely followed Oh Crap book which is essentially having them naked from the waist down for a few days and watching their cues. Obviously there are a lot of accidents but we were mostly there after three days. The first time he went to nursery without a nappy he had tonnes of accidents but it was a new environment so fair enough. We found it easier to go commando first then work up to pants as initially they felt so similar to a nappy he got confused while playing.

@Caroline thank you so much! I’ll look into that book now, he understands when he has to use the potty and will sometimes wee on it but will scream until I put a nappy on him when he has to poo. We’ve gone commando today and no accidents so far, just trying to make sure he’s sitting on it regularly enough so he’s getting used being on it x

@Tamara in case it's useful what we found really helpful was getting a waterproof dog blanket 😂 it's cheaper than anything marketed towards kids and does the job for if they're sitting on the sofa and you can protect your furniture. Sounds like he's nearly there though tbh! It's often harder with the poos!

Piggybacking off of Lorna-Jean. You can make it fun by having his favorite books there or water play. I just took a bucket of water for my daughter to splash in. It made it fun and helped her pee easier.

@Caroline I would’ve never even have thought of that!! Thank you! 😂 fingers crossed it isn’t too much longer, but definitely coming along slowly! :)

@Hannah thank you, I’ll definitely give it a try! X

I’m having the same issue with my daughter, point blank refuses and when I put her on the toilet or potty, she is so upset and holds it in. Today she has told me every time her nappy has been wet or dirty so we’ve got a bit further with her doing that. For the biggest part of the day I had her in knickers and had no accidents but she just won’t use the toilet or nappy. Nursery are great and help so hoping they make a dent the next few days and I can carry on with her being naked after that on my time off 🤞

We had the same issue and were panicking about preschool in September. We put our son in normal underwear and went cold turkey during the day. The first 3-4 days were hell but then he started coming round to the idea. He’s now absolutely fine with using the potty for having a wee and his pull ups are always dry in the morning. For some reason he refuses to go to the potty for poos so we still have work to do!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

I’ve just put a post about the up but I’m in the same situation as you are everything your saying about your wee boy my wee boy is the same I’m at the point we’re in thinking of just keeping him off nappies all day hiding them till night time and accepting the accidents x

@Kelly the day after I made this post I decided to just cold turkey him. Took his nappy off and left him with his potty, we only had one accident! Took us about 3 days to get the first solid out the way, I found that leaving the room helped as he was shy the first time doing it. My main problem is, now he wants to stay naked 24/7 and cries when I put a nappy on for bedtime / when we go out for longer periods of time 😂

@Caroline I’ve done the same and just gone cold turkey, he’s taken so much better to it this time round than he did a couple months ago I’m honestly shocked 😂 for my son, I left the room around the same time that he usually does his poos and reminded him that he had no nappy and that if he needed a wee or a poo to go on his potty. After a couple days he did one, now he’ll ask to use the upstairs potty if he needs a poo so I think it may have been a bit of shyness. Fingers crossed he starts doing poos on the potty soon!!

@Shannon yeah literally the day after I made this post I just moved all of his nappies out of sight and brought one of his potties downstairs and went cold turkey on him. We only had one accident that day and only 2/3 since. I’d tell him that all of his favourite people used potty, we watched bebefinn and peppa pig potty training videos and I told him that once he used the potty he’d get a special present which helped speed the process quite a bit 😂 best of luck to you lovely! I hope he manages to get the hang of it, it’s such a big milestone for them x