Probably should be in the WooHoo thread....but ....

[beckoes]

My DD is 17 months old has been wandering around with no nappy on for weeks...maybe months, and not getting anywhere with TT, apart from weeing all over the floor!
Recently ive managed to catch her a few times just as she starts to wee and tell her to stop then gone to the toilet and finished her wees in there, or the potty, but i think she like the big toilet better.
>>>WELL<<< today she was in the lounge, we always have the potty out, she was wearing a nappy. She just took the nappy off and sat on the potty and did a big wee. I nearly died!! I couldnt belive that she had just done it on her own, without even saying anything or haiving any help from me!!!!
Who knows if she will do it again!! But WOW. looks like all those weeks of mopping wee off the floor might be paying off!

[BekZ]

Well done

[Arimeh]

Haha you've got more energy and patience than me!!!! I'm sooo not into mopping pee off the floor at the moment, so even DS has to wait until I've got more energy to TT him.. LOL

[thepixie]

LOL love it.... I really should be doing that with DD but I am too lazy to be mopping up wee all the time

[Emma1979]

thats terrific.... there are some boys in my mothers group who are three and aren't toilet trained yet, i think maybe every time they have an accident the mum's think 'they're not ready'.... one is actually not fitting into nappies anymore and they are looking at getting nappies for special needs kids for him, so they fit... i personally don't think i believe in such a thing as starting them too early... my dd took a few months of accidents before she got there, but thats just part of it... in some cases i think people might even leave it too late, waiting for that magical 'ready' time, and then the kids are so used to nappies they resist it.... just my two cents...

anyways congrats!!!!

[diannescruffy]

well done to your DD, that's fantastic.

Regards,
Dianne

[Arimeh]

in some cases i think people might even leave it too late, waiting for that magical 'ready' time, and then the kids are so used to nappies they resist it.... just my two cents...

Hmm I think we'll definitely have to agree to disagree on that one.

[Emma1979]

i supppose i just hear a lot of things about it being too inconvenient a time to actually bite the bullet and toilet train, because it takes work and accidents and cleaning up, and i understand it does have to be done at a suitable time that you can dedicate to it, but it can be easy to put off.... and maybe they miss the boat...

i also get told that boys are a lot slower than girls at lots of things, including toilet training - is there any fact to this? i'm having a boy next and just curious.... my mum assures me that its rubbish, that my brothers were toilet trained and talking etc around 2.... just wondered if people think that boys are slower, then they maybe don't expect as much from them? just thinking out loud.