Potty training

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At the moment just trying to get him used to the potty, we do some no nappy time at home and encourage him to sit on it regularly and he says wee wee but rarely does it 🤣 His most successful time is first thing in the morning as he goes on it after his bedtime nappy comes off and we've had 3 wees so far. He clapped himself and demanded a sticker so I think he knows that is the idea but he can't read his body signals for when he's going to go yet. I plan to just carry on kind of ad hoc like this so he tries until he starts to be able to know/predict the need to go and then just spend a few days focusing on it 🤷‍♀️

We started potty training months back as our daughter was showing all the signs. She started off doing really well then one day she just refused to go on it and that was that. She then took a lot of interest in the actual toilet so we got a seat for that and she has a stool. Every now and then she’ll ask to go on the toilet and do a pee so we just take it easy and don’t put any pressure on it. The plan was to have her potty trained by her 2nd birthday (if she’d go with it), but I’m pregnant with our second so decided that I’ll wait until I’m off on maternity and just do it then. I plan on training the next one waaaay earlier though x

I take her lead 100%. The last 2 days she’s been into sitting on the potty. We role play with her teddies, we read the books & I got her pants, which I’ll see when she really notices them. No pressure at all, just following her lead. She goes to the toilet with me and I run her through what happens. I make sure she’s in charge of what she wants to learn whilst setting the scene. There’s no rush at this age I believe. And even later. The less we pressure, the more we support: the better they feel about it. I can see this at the nursery I work at. Children respond to warm support through their accidents so well, as long as you welcome them where they are x

I bought a potty ages ago and my daughter just wanted to stand in it. Wasn't interested at all. But I left it in the toilet next to our toilet. And I've bought potty training books, and talked to her about doing poos and pees in the potty like a big girl and now she doesn't need nappies. We practiced sitting on it eventually and she's feeling more confident and the tears have stopped. She's gradually taking off her nappy and going to pee in it on her own. So now I've invested in pants, sticker charts and I'm trying to make it fun, she's even started patting her nappy and showing me she needs to go. I've honestly just let her lead the way because I was getting myself so pent up about it all. So after this packet of nappies is gone I'm going cold turkey and just letting her go nappy free when at home or with pants and letting her do her thing. I do hear that some toddlers like to use the wee ladder to the toilet and find it easier to go straight to the toilet and it cuts out the potty.