Any other ideas for TT??

[Nadine216]

I'm stuck at a sticker chart Can't come up with something more interesting that that .. how cool am I

DD is just not interested in the sticker chart. I tell her that if she wees on the loo, she gets a sticker and she agree's, but when I ask her if she want to wee "NO" " You can get a sticker if you wee on the loo" " NOOOO" and then she wee in her nappy (?!)

I don't want to make an issue out of this. She has wee'ed on the loo and even pooed in the loo ONCE (what big excitement that was) but she is just not interested.

Any ideas? Should I just leave it till she is three?

[babywannabe]

sorry no ideas here, i've given up on my DS. He's in denial. Have you done wee NO, have you done poo NO - but you stink. Still NO he says he hasn't done anything and hates going to the potty. He doesn't even care he's wet himself, so I've concluded he's not ready. And YES he likes stickers, but not enough to go to the potty .
I have bribed him with chocolate b4 and it did work, but then thought this wasn't the way to go so stopped. I'll try again soon.

[paradise lost]

I tried everything (and i mean EVERYTHING from stickers to gummybears, to just putting her in pants and letting her wet herself 8million times a day) and what eventually worked was....DD decided to do it. One day she just decided she didn't want nappies any more and that was that.

I began trying to TT just before she was 2.5 (because she had several signs of readiness) but she refused to tell me when she needed to go and refused to poo on the loo/in the potty at all. After several months of on/off constipation, a few small successes and lots of huge disasters i realised that i was spending my days with her thinking about TT, how to TT, getting her better at TT, and not the fun we could be having. I figured i'd have a last ditch attempt for a week and see if it made any difference. I put her in pants "no more nappies" i told her. She wet and soiled herself up to 7 times a day for the next 6 days. We were both depressed! I decided to forget it, that she would never be TT before she was at least 3.5, and not to bother. The next morning (literally) i got her up and she came down stairs and peed on the carpet. I put a nappy on her and decided i was DONE with TT for at least 3 months. Later that morning a health visitor came and asked was she in nappies. I bemoaned the whole thing. DD piped up that she wanted to do a wee in the potty. So i took her nappy off again, feeling a bit humiliated since i'd just told the HV how impossible and unwilling she was about it all, and since that one wee wee in the potty she has been dry day and night.

One day she was ready and overnight went from weeing at random/refusing to communicate need/refusing to go to the potty or toilet/demanding a nappy to poo in etc. to being clean and dry. I cannot honestly take credit for this, she just decided.

So yep, if i were you i'd "give up" for a few months. Worked for us anyway

Bx

[aussienic]

My sons weren't interested in sticker charts either. I used treats as a bribe lol..

they either got a milky way when we went out or a few smarties when they went. I didn't give them if they went but didn't do anything..

[Nadine216]

I like the "give up" idea

Thank so much, I thought it was just me. Babywannabe that is exactly where we are now .... No wee in potty. No poo in potty. This morning she woke up dry (I change her before bed at about 11pm) and I asked her if she wants a sticker, she said YES, then you need to wee in the potty, NO ... about 5 seconds later she wees in her diper. *sigh*

Going to leave it till she wants to potty. Thanks again guys

[Erin_25]

After one poo in the nappy that just got stuck everywhere eeeeeekkkkk....I am happy to say I gave up also!!! Charlie would sit on the potty, and would wee outside when ever you asked......he also would run & watch DH or I on the toilet & then a couple days later he didn't want any part of it. I bought wiggles undies thinking that might help & it was worse as he wouldn't take then off for anything.
Currently I ask him to sit on the potty before a bath....he jumps on the off & declares "no wee's" then stands up in the bath 5mins later & does one...hmmmm.

I'm going to try again in a couple months, I would like him done before our next bundle arrives. I know not everyone agrees but I'm going with a treat idea a friend of mine used. I'm going to get a heap of cheap little books, cars etc from our $2shop, wrap them up and but in a bag. Then I'm going to TRY & explain he gets to choose one at the end of the day if he's done all his wee's etc in the potty/toilet. I really want to get it done in the next few months as we will be travelling a bit after that & then new bubs........so I'm willing to use a drastic measure to hopefully encourage him to go nuts with it.

[Nadine216]

Oh Erin I hear you. I wanted dd off nappies before Mr arrived, but needless to say ... we are not there yet. I work weeks and have a carer for them at home, so over weekends, the time I would like to "relax" - yes such a word exist, does not know what it means anymore, but I know it does happen to ppl without kids, I feel like that is all I do ... change soaking and dirty diapers

[babywannabe]

Oh Erin I hear you. I wanted dd off nappies before Mr arrived, but needless to say ... we are not there yet.

yep am in same boat except i had my 2nd Bub nearly 7 months ago and am no where close DS being TT

[Mak]

Hey girls! I was DESPERATE to TT my DD1 earlier this year - she had showed signs of interest and was successful on and off. We tried Dora undies/sticker charts/treats/lollies even song and dance routines in the bathroom . I got so obsessed with it that I was annoying her and stressing myself out. We were also not having much fun.....After some lovely advice here I gave up - and she decided on her own terms a few weeks later. It was painless and pretty much accident free, all over in a few days - so much easier than me deciding she was ready.
Take the pressure off yourselves - the kids will definitely let you know when they are ready....grhh so much easier in hindsight isn't it!
Good luck!

[organicem]

[QUOTE=Erin_25;1863943] I bought wiggles undies thinking that might help & it was worse as he wouldn't take then off for anything.

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A friend of mine successfully TT her little boy by buying hime undies with favourite characters and telling him they they would get sad if they got wet or dirty so he needed to 'look after' them by telling mummy when he needed to go toilet...haven't had a chance to try it myself yet but might be worth a go.

[rubibaby]

a friend took her daughter shopping and they picked out three special books that could only be read when she sat on the potty. it worked a treat!

[Nadine216]

Well, well .. after I used the "gave up" approach, I'm proud to say that we are on our way to no-diaper world

Saturday moring she got up dry and I ask (as a habit by now) if she would like to wee on the potty and she said YES!!!! So she wee on the little potty and she wants to wear her panties. So I let her and after about two hours I ask her again and she said ... wait for it ... YES!!!

So she had two little accidents over the weekend and does not want to poo in the loo (that happend in the panties ... gulp) But other than that, she is liking it. I do give her stickers afterwards.

This morning I asked and she said no and I was thinking that yea, it was to good to be true, but about 15 minutes later, she says she wants to wee ... we RUN to the potty and TADA .. she wees in the potty, no problem.

I'm so proud of her, and to think I was complaining about her here

[babywannabe]

well done. You give me hope.

[~Kim~]

Do you know Nadine, I think they just like the idea of mummy running to the toilet and then getting excited...lol, but well done princess!!!!

We were in the same boat. Darcy was way too cunning for stickers.
One day i sent some undies to daycare just to see if peer pressure helped...one day I'm not joking.
Four days later as we were doing the groceries DH says to me "hey have you had Darcy in a nappy this weekend?" Then I thought about it....she had just done it herself, no song and dance, no bribes, she was just ready.
Glad to see she's on the way there though babe.

[Nadine216]

Thanks Kim

Well Miss " I wanna do it my SELF" send me out the bathroom this morning Told me that she'll go potty on her own and when I stood in the doorway, she told me in the sweetest voice " away mommy" OMG I want her grown-up, but not really

Then she proceded to take off her pj bottom and her diaper (dry one) and made a HUGE wee in the potty. She called me to show off and I wiped her and she threw the potty out into the toilet. Gave her a sticker and she picked out a pantie.

She even went to the shop with me yesterday in her undies ... no oopsies When we came home, the excitement were to much and she had a little accident as soon as we stepped in the doorway.