Advice on Potty training

Rince

We waited till our kids were ready, ie when they said they wanted to use the potty rather than when we wanted them 2. They were both 2 years 7 months and it was dead easy. As they wanted to do it, it just took a few days. They go to nursery and we just informed them that from now on they need to use the loo/potty and nursery were great. The best advice we were given was wait till they are ready. Good luck

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

Been having problems with DD and potty training - we started when she was 2 and everything was going really well but then she had an accident and my "dear" old nan (who never knows when to shut up!) said "thats naughty" meaning pee-ing on th floor, DD thought she meant pee-ing in general is naughty so from then on has been holding it in - for days! we ended up in hospital one night through her holding everything in, doctors said physically shes fine but its in her mind, potty training was a nightmare, she screamed, she sobbed, it was traumatising!

Anyway - I brought a training toilet from fisher-price and . . . .after a few days of her looking at it she finally used it . . . . a month down the line, a week before her 3rd birthday and tonight ladies and gentleman, my DD is GOING TO BED WITHOUT A NAPPY ON!!!!!!

first night - no nappy - lets see how it goes :j

suseb_99

aww poor wee angel!
hope all goes well tonight, fingers crossed :-)

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

she's been picking up a lot wrong recently - I told her one day "you should do a wee in your 'special toilet' when you need one" - got a phone call from nursery the following day, DD had told them she couldnt go to their toilet but needed her "special one cause mummy said so"

D'OH!!!

building_with_lego

Poor thing! It's the throwaway comments that do so much harm... Well done on getting her to here :T

Good luck for tonight!



As an aside, my DS (just turned 3) has been daytime potty trained for a few weeks now. For the first two weeks of daytime training he was waking dry in the morning; I took a deep breath and put him in pants overnight; after two wet sheet mornings he went back into night nappies and EVERY morning since he's been soaked. <inserts puzzled smily>

morocha

congratulations !!
my dd is 3 and i still put a nappy on at night... should i just send her bed without any on ?.. i dont know what to do, cos she drinks a lot and i dont want her to wee her bed.

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

ive put her "special toilet" in her room for her and we've told her to shout if she needs a wee - i know im going to have some wet nights but hopefully its the start of all things dry!

Me and her dad split up - when she was going to his, he was putting on a nappy cause he couldnt be bothered - i chomped his ear off about it - wait till he finds out she isnt having a nappy on in bed lmao

Harrowing_2

Well done. Funny how fashions change, my Mum had us all trained by 2. This is 40+ years ago, mind.

Indie_Kid

morocha wrote: »

congratulations !!
my dd is 3 and i still put a nappy on at night... should i just send her bed without any on ?.. i dont know what to do, cos she drinks a lot and i dont want her to wee her bed.

I think only you can judge that. Do you think she's ready? I mean, does she wake up dry in the morning?

shelley_crow

Harrowing wrote: »

Well done. Funny how fashions change, my Mum had us all trained by 2. This is 40+ years ago, mind.

It's not really a fashion to be honest.

The latter potty training in today's children is thought to be to do with the invention of disposeable nappies, which keep children much drier than reuseable nappies did so kids are less aware of being wet. IIRC disposeables were only invented and widely available in the 1980s, so would not have been an option for your mother to use 40 years ago.

I'll be interested to see how this theory stands in practice, I used disposeable nappies with ds and will be using reuseables with the new baby in september.

Well done to your little girl OP! :j