Help - toliet training... how much longer?

[PinkPalace]

Well you would all remember my blogs almost a year ago -
DD was doing really well with TT
wake up dry , wee on toliet , poo on toilet etc.

Then we switched to sposies and it all went out the window.

She is 2.2 now and she sits on the toliet, lovess toilet paper and washing her hands etc

but WONT PEE on it.

SHe will sit there for like 15 mins and then hop off an pee on the floor.


She will tell us when she wees in her nappies and poos etc (often runs and hides to poo).

But wont pee!!!

any help

i know people say they will let you know when they are ready... what else am i lookin out for?

All my friends talk about their TT children (younger than DD)... and i feel like she is giving me the cues and nothing.... am i doing something wrong???

ADVICE APPRECIATED!!!

[Olive]

DD was the age your DD is now when we really started, it was a long few months of peeing on the floor pooing in undies etc.. i then got her her own stool to stand on to get on the toilet which she loved and also made a big deal of saying to her ' show us how you go to the toilet like a big girl' ' you go to the toilet all by your self' etc etc.. worked for us, one day she just got it

[MantaRay]

Hun, she'll go when she's ready. There really is no magic age - both my boys were quite different in the age at which they were ready. But once they are ready, it really is much easier. I know it can seem like forever though

[PinkPalace]

but i mean what else are th signs she will show?

[PinkPalace]

well - my 10 month old did a poo in the toilet tonight!
DD cheered him but she still wont.

we are in trainer cloth pants now. peeing everywhere!

[sneakysparkle]

when I TT'd Darlie I initially put her on the potty every 20-30 mins. She had a potty chart - she got a small sticker whenever she sat on the potty, and an extra special one if she did wees or poos on there, as well as a HUGE deal made - a ton of praise!! Lol

Its hard work isnt it? Sounds like youre doing a good job tho, hang in there

[canadianmummy]

HI I am Andrea, i hope you do not mind me jumping in.........

It sounds like you are doing all you can. If she doesn't want to wee in the toilet, there isn't much you can do , but keep taking her, and if she does do a wee or poo, make a BIG deal about it.

Just an idea, but do you have a sink near where your toilet is? Maybe you could try running water while you sat her on the toilet?

[PinkPalace]

thanks girls - i am at work tomorrow so i wont be doing the TT.
hard to be consistant.

We do have a basin in there but as soon as the water is on she wants to wash her hands.... mm

[shellbell3]

My DD was exactly how yours was.
I tried when she was 2 and 3 months spent 2 days with her in training pants or nothing and she wee'd constantly in pants or on floor and was weeing every 45mins or so so knew she wasn't ready, so \I waited til she was 2.5 much better, first day did 2 wees.
So yeah they are all different at different times. Wait til you have 2-3 days where you can spend at home and just let her go round pants free or in undies, I found anything absorbant even slighty hindered the process. She caught on quickly at that age, ahrdly took us any time and I was happy then that I hadn't pushed it earlier and waited.

[widdly]

DS has been TT for wee since 18 months old but refused to do poo in toilet. Then a few months ago he was babysat by my Dad and my Dad told him he couldn't have a nappy for poo and this scarred DS for life I think! He is 3years and 4 months and not at all interested in doing wee OR poo in the toilet anymore!! I am just leaving him alone til he has to go to kinder, keeping my fingers crossed he just does it himself one day. Right now though I fear he'll be in nappies forever

[Mrs Jak]

How's it going PP?

My daughter wasn't TT until 3yrs and 1 month. I tried earlier a couple of times, but she got a fright when she slipped over in her pee puddles on the tiles and then refused to wear undies. She also hates change and didn't want to sit on the potty.

She never showed any 'signs' of being ready to TT, though had great bladder control. (often woke up dry and when she did a pee it was huge)

One day when she was 3, I convinced her to wear knickers to kindy. She held on all day!! When I got home from work I talked her in to sitting on the potty and she did a poo and a pee. We all made a big deal and from then on she was toilet trained! Knickers all day and night and she has never wet the bed. She only had a couple of accidents on her way to the toilet and that was it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it is true that they will TT when they are ready. I used to stress that she was older than others that were TT , (her cousin decided to TT at 2 by herself) but in the end life was so much easier having an older child who TT and then never looked back.