Toddler Toilet Training help! (merged)

Sarahsaver

Get a few from poundland. One for grandparents house of you are lucky enough to have grandparents nearby, or other relatives, one for the car (?), one for downstairs and one for upstairs. I had one downstairs either in the kitchen or the hallway, as it is 2 flights of stairs plus a long hallway and then a big step to the bathroom, so I put the potty in the hallway or kitchen (tiled) and in the summer they peed under the tree in the garden (wahey! they loved that!) I didnt plan when to train just let them try the potty, usually got them to use it by encouraging a sit on it before a bath in the evenings. You have to wait until the child is interested.

Dormouse

I wouldn't worry too much about the potty being too cold - if your bathroom is reasonably warm, surely the plastic potty will be too? Besides, plastic toilets seats don't usually bother us adults, do they?

Just get a couple of cheap-ish potties, they should do the job. Ones with pictures or patterns are fun, too.

Anyway, your plan of introducing the potty just before the bath sounds great - that's the way my DS started and there's been no looking back.

Good luck! You hear so many horror stories about potty training but remember, it's not always that big a deal (fingers crossed! ).

purplepurple

also.... couldn't have lived without a Tommee Tippee travel potty it's more convenient than having to empty out a normal one when you're out and about.. just tie the bag up and put in a bin. It was fantastic for travelling, or even out shopping!

Rachie_B

purplepurple wrote:

also.... couldn't have lived without a Tommee Tippee travel potty it's more convenient than having to empty out a normal one when you're out and about.. just tie the bag up and put in a bin. It was fantastic for travelling, or even out shopping!

i agree we always used to take it with us,under the buggy / in the car etc

Sarahsaver

I HATE sitting on warm seats- eugh! :rolleyes: dont see a problem with a cold seat at all.

sundin13

We ended up with a grand total of 7 pottys and four toilet seats. Frightening amount of future landfill right there (!).
Potty 1 - Blue, Boots - about £4. Turned out to be one of the best - good splash guard, and seat width fine.
Pottys 2 & 3 - Green, Tescos (and second from a charity shop) - rubbish. no splash guard, and the pottys are so light that they often stuck to the back of DS's legs and got knocked over.
Potty 4 - Red and Black, Ladybird at Woolies - the worst. Stupid narrow seat, inadequate splash guard, poor stability.
Potty 5 - Mothercare Potty Chair. Not worth the thirteen or so quid I paid for it - although there's no particular criticisms I can make
Potty 6 - White, Made by Curver I think - came from a charity shop - really wide seat and small hole. Good one this, comfy to sit on.
Potty 7 - Pound shop green hippo. Just as good as any other - but maybe a bit low on the ground.

Toilet seat 1 - tescos green.
Toilet seat 2 - home and bargain checked, padded thing.
Toilet seats 3 & 4 - John Lewis Sale - 99p
The funny thing about toilet seats is that I never realised that some of them go on the top of the seat, and some underneath. The H&B thing went on the top, and wasn't popular. The tescos one should have gone underneath, but didn't fit in our toilet seat, hence I didn't realise. The two from John Lewis had big flat round bases, and small round holes. They went perfectly under the seats and were used in both our bathrooms for as long as we needed them.

Just DD2 to get through, and then I'm having a big old Potty Boot sale!

Elliebabe

The blue potty (they do pink as well) from Boots is fab - the best I have bought and cheap I think £4.

ely

Get Gina Ford - "How to potty train in a week" book

Achieved with both children.....does wot it says on the tin !!!!!

It was the best advice I was ever gievn before training my first.

Davidboy

My daughter is now 19, but when we potty trained her, she would sit for ages in the kitchen on her potty...but then used to scoot all over the floor, splashing the contents everywhere!!! Thought it was great fun!

My advice would be to get a NON-SLIP one...trust me!

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pdoff

we got 99p from morrisons ones - hold quite a lot & have raised bit at front. never any splashing. presume they still do them. got toilet seats from charity shop, left 1 at grandmas as we are there at least once a week. still fine & will be ok to use with ds2.

when u run out of liners for travel potty a nappy bag & sanitary towel are just as good.

oh, & do not flush too many toilet wipes - they blocked our drain & mr. dynarod said it was the most common cause of blockages - nearly £100 to rectify!

good luck!