My little girl Jessica just turned 2 last Tuesday. For about the last 4 months she has been doing wees on the potty. Sometimes she would take her nappy off to go & other times she'd have an accident. I never really pushed her, just asked her constantly if she wanted to do wees etc... We then implemented the training pants for during the day at home but we'd put a nappy on her when we would go out because she wouldn't come & ask us to go to the toilet, she'd just go & do it by herself & then come & tell me she had done wees on the potty.
Now that she's turned 2, I have been keeping nappies completely off her at home during the day (except for sleep time), & have started taking her out on small expeditions with her knickers on. I make sure she wees before we go & then we'll go to the shop & grab some milk or go for a walk around the block or something. If I have to go out for a while, I do put a nappy on her but generally I have been taking her in her knickers & taking the potty with us.
Some days she goes the whole day without any accidents & she's even doing Number 2's on the toilet most days as well, but it seems that if she has 1 accident, then they just keep on coming.
At first I'd just mop up the floor & tell her next time to use the toilet, but now it's a game & she laughs when she pees in her knickers & so we have started to tell her that naughty girls do wees in their knickers & good girls do wees on the toilet. When you ask her where to do wees & Number 2's she says 'big girls toilet'.
She's not dumb by any account, I know that she's only 2, but she is a very clever little cookie.
I'm just getting frustrated because there are days when she is absolutely perfect & I think that we have got everything rock solid & then there are days like today when I have more pairs of knickers in the wash than I do in her drawer!
Has anybody else had these issues? People tell me it will just 'click' one day & there will be no going back, but it does 'click' for a day, & then the next day it's all forgotten. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for all your help/suggestions!!!
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