Toddler Toilet Training help! (merged)

shelovestobuystuff

Well done so far,sounds like you know what you are doing.
Kids learn fast,but don,t worry if she is still in nappies at nursery.The big kid pants are great for the in between stages of potty training when they try but don,t always make it in time.
When I started to potty train my daughter at home I used stickers as rewards.Every time she managed to "land one" she got a sparkly sticker to decorate her potty with.My daughter loved that.

keelykat

Hi ya, i was wondering if i could butt in for a minute! Ive been reading all the posts, as my sister is having right problems with my almost three year old niece right now. But she seems to have a slightly different problem-my niece knows when shes doing a no 1 or 2, and tell her mom (or me when im there) but is being really cheeky or lazy (sometimes both) and wont go on the potty or loo! She'll say 'mom i need a wee, ooohh....too late!' or when her mom says shall we go to the toilet she replies 'change me later'.... she's had tantrums and tears over it all.

She's got two older children who had no problems at all, so she's tearing her hair out at the mo. She's due to take my niece to nursey in january but thinks she wont be ready now, i think the nursery wont take any kids unless they are toilet trained?

I've been looking for some tips/advice so i can help my sister, as shes got her hands full with other two right now as well. So any help would be appreciated!

keely.

flowrypot

If she is just being lazy put her in knickers and if she wets them get her to take her wet things off herself and try and put her new clean ones on herself. She will probably have a right old paddy but if you persist she will see its a lot easier to use the toilet .Also reward her when she does help herself you would be amazed by the power of stickers.

smileitconfusespeople_2

hi ya,
heres what i did for my little one, we made a big fuss about him going and getting big boy pants and took him off into the disney store it was a special trip just for him of which ehe enjoyed telling every one he was going to get big boy pants?!:rolleyes:
I let him chose about 12 i think it was cars and pirates of the caribean we put them in a bag and i let him carry them , when we got home we put them on straight away i brought 2 potties( get an old towel and put under the potties to save little accidents ) and armed with loads of old jogging bottoms coz they are easier ornothing but the pants/knickers , when you go into the toilet take them with you let them see you going and ask if they want to go too Give them loads of praise and even if they wet them selves tell them not to worry and how nice it is to be nice and fresh and dry , even when you go out do not be tempted to put nappies or pull ups on (NEVER) this only confuses them,
She will get the hang of it every child is different , it might be alot to expect her to be all jeered up about going to nursery and trying to potty train her ..ps try to get hold of Gina Ford Potty training book a god send....Goood luck HTH

Nicki

keelykat wrote: »

i think the nursery wont take any kids unless they are toilet trained?

keely.

At least two thirds of this thread is about the fact that this is just not true!

By all means try and solve the problem before January, but if your sister doesn't please don't tell her she can't send a child to nursery in nappies as it just isn't true. I'm not sure what else I can say or do to get the point across.

shelovestobuystuff

keelykat wrote: »

Hi ya, i was wondering if i could butt in for a minute! Ive been reading all the posts, as my sister is having right problems with my almost three year old niece right now. But she seems to have a slightly different problem-my niece knows when shes doing a no 1 or 2, and tell her mom (or me when im there) but is being really cheeky or lazy (sometimes both) and wont go on the potty or loo! She'll say 'mom i need a wee, ooohh....too late!' or when her mom says shall we go to the toilet she replies 'change me later'.... she's had tantrums and tears over it all.

She's got two older children who had no problems at all, so she's tearing her hair out at the mo. She's due to take my niece to nursey in january but thinks she wont be ready now, i think the nursery wont take any kids unless they are toilet trained?

I've been looking for some tips/advice so i can help my sister, as shes got her hands full with other two right now as well. So any help would be appreciated!

keely.

Maybe she is just having too much fun doing other things to waste precious playtime on the potty or loo.Make going to the loo a bit of a game,get an extra potty for dolly and some tiny nappies for dolly too and see if that helps at all.Maybe have a toy or book kept especially for the littlest room that only gets played with in there,that will make it a more interesting place to go.

eira

Agree with pulliptears-did the same with my daughter (but it was over the summer) and she was dry in a matter of weeks.In her case she was too busy to go to the lav.Another help was a book called Where's my Potty by Tony Ross. daughter never liked the potty much but came to like the lav with a special seat on it.

WelshLamb

My, nearly three year old, son has started using the potty and he's now dry during the day. He has a nappy on during the night but I'm wondering when should he be getting up instead of wetting his nappy.

At the moment he sleeps through the night and his nappy's wet in the morning (i've reduced his fluid and has no fluids an hour before bed). Should I wake him a few times during the night and take him to the toilet?

I was very lucky when my daughter potty trained as she woke up during the night from the start

A friend said that he may not be ready to go to the toilet at night, but won't he get used to just sleeping through his urge for a wee???

your advice would be apprecited

moggitymog

took my daughters nappies off at 3 but left her one on at night until i realised that she was only wetting it when i got her up so that came off as well!
She is now 5 and we had very few accidents, on a couple of occasions at nursery and they popped her in spare clothes without any fuss.

fishingcinema

:beer: congratulations on youe current progress

i was too worried about this as my daughter started nursery back in sep when she was 2 and had hardly any interest in the potty she too had always seen me go to the toilet and said mummy doing wee wee and had a potty for ages but it was too unconfortable for her eventually i brought her a potty chair and everytime she did a wee i got over excited clapped the lot:j she loved the attention

then she would never do a poo in the potty so i read on a website when she did a poo i took her nappy off emptied it into her potty then took it and emptied it down the loo explaining what i was doing i only had to do this once since then she has wee and poo in the potty

then came the problem of getting her to wear nickers as everytime i put them on she had an accident she could run arround all day accident free but as soon as those nickers went on she had an accident so again i had to explain to her you need to wear big girls pants like mummy and when you need a wee wee or poo you need to pull them down and go on the potty
then one day she just came to me with the potty with wee in i thought she had just sat down with her nickers up but she hadnt and again i made a huge deal out of it and for the last 2 weeks ahe has had nickers on indoors and accident free

i must also mention everytime she has ever been on the potty we do a potty dance and it works wonders even if it looks a little ok alot silly she likes it and is accident free so thats all that matters

even her 1 and a half year old sister joins in on the potty dance lol

hope this helps