Potty training help

Help please! My little boy is 2 years and 3 months. In the last couple of weeks we've been reading lots of stories about potties and no more nappies. We've put Teddy on the potty/toilet, he's seen his cousin (same age) use the toilet, he knows that's where wees and poos should go. The potty is out all the time. When we have nappy free time he will tell me he needs a wee and can hold it in, but he will not even try to sit on the potty or the toilet, even fully clothed. He will get very upset and eventually have an accident on the floor. We've never told him off for having an accident, so I am not sure where the anxiety has come from. He's seen us use the toilet, we've tried to make it fun by getting him to put stickers on his potty etc. I'm not sure where to go from here? Is he simply not ready yet?

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I bribed my little girl with chocolate. Once shes done a couple wees on a potty she was ok and didn’t need much encouragement to sit on it anymore as she’d just go herself when she needs to, however we still have trouble with no 2, as she has not done one on a potty yet so she’s back in a nappy for now which she still keeps taking off and goes sits on a potty when she needs a wee.

You could try a sticker chart? Every time he has a wee or poo on the toilet he can put a sticker on the chart. There's lots of different ones on Amazon

Wait a bit longer until he’s ready? My daughter is the same age but hasn’t shown enough signs and I want her to feel ready x

My oldest had a fear of the toilet/potty so I had to stop potty training until he was a little older just sp he didn't keep associating it negatively. He was just shy of 3 when he was ready. Some kids just take longer to be ready 😊

I'd wait longer, stop talking about it for a while, let him process everything so far and try again when he is definitely showing all the 5 signs.

This sounds exactly like my little boy. We decided to do a week of potty training, chocolate and stickers as rewards but after a week, nothing had improved, same amount of accidents, anxiety over pooping in the toilet, it was beyond stressful for both of us so we stopped and will try again in a few months. There is no rush and I didn't want to cause any more anxiety or trauma. Since, every day or so he asks to use the toilet (just wee) but we don't force anything x

I think maybe give it a break. Also from books and all that. What I feel helped my little one gain interest was to see other kids doing it in nursery. She did at some point in the first few days ask me to pee in the potty myself lol ... and I did 🤣

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