Just joining in this thread. DD has been sitting on the potty regularly for a few months but not actually doing anything. I figure that if she is happy to sit I am not going to discourage that If I go to the loo she brings her potty in too to sit on.
The other night she actual did wee on the potty. I was so excited. But in true DD fashion has decided she has done it once and thats enough.
OMG - I feel like I've just arrived home! This thread is perfect for us atm.
We've been trying to get DS1 interested. He'll do a wee on the loo before a shower/bath and before bed/nap. It's currently 50/50 success rate.
But ...
He won't tell us if he needs to wee. Won't tell us after. He'll happily sit in a wet nappy all day. And don't get me started on poo - we're a long way off hitting the loo on that issue!
I think part of the TT issue here is my and DH's consistency in getting him onto the loo. As DS1 is still in a nappy, it's easy to "forget" or think "I'll ask him in 5 mins", which becomes 10, which becomes 15 etc. But by the same token, I wish DS1 would cotton onto the idea that it's not "nice" to be wet or pooey.
We're on hols up the sunshine coast soon, I'm tempted to focus on TTing him then as DH and I will have plenty of time (compared to the usual goings on at home).
Thank you for starting this thread - it will be good to bounce some general ideas around in a chit-chat thread.
Indie>>> I send my hubby text messages lol The highlight of my month was when DS did a poo on the toilet lol Bet that was the highlight of his day receiving that text NOT!!!! Feel free to share your excitement here any time!!!! And YAY!!! for your DD!!!!!!
AndiE... lol my son is the same!! He knows he has a poo-ey nappy but still runs away so i have to chase him and pin him down to change it!! He would sit in his poo all day if i let him!!!! We are at the stage thought where he will let me take off a wet nappy (he comes and says Mummy i am full of wee's) and my bigget bargaining power is that if he lets me take a dirty one off he doesnt have to put another one on!!
Its been raining here again so he couldnt make it outside yesterday so we tried using the toilet again- but the poor lil guy wants to stand up- which is VERY MESSY indeed!!! But he did actually got here all by himself once and came to tell me he even cleaned up- very cute!! But he used alot of toilet paper mopping up his mess lol
Just thought I'd pop in. TT has all but stopped for us for the moment. Put knickers on DD, she freaked, held on and then hasn't told me since that she's done wees or poos. So I'm happy to hold off for a bit.
But just thought I'd let you know, you can get a free toilet training guide from Huggies - you can download the form and attach a pull-ups barcode and they'll send it to you. It comes with Disney Pixar Cars/Disney Princess progress chart, big kid certificate and stars stickers.
Bit of an update from us... DD is nudie at home and hasn't had a wee accident in ages. Takes herself to the potty independently and does wees! Very exciting.
BUT - she doesn't "get" the whole undies concept. She thinks anything on her bum is a nappy As soon as I put undies or even training pants on her, she assumes it's a nappy and doesn't seem inclined to either tell us she needs to wee or go to the potty herself. Any suggestions???
BTDT OP and to be honest I'm still not sure if she gets it. We still let her run around without knickers at home and just like your DD she takes herself independently. At daycare she is usually fine with knickers, although there have been more accidents lately. Where I'm making absolutely zero progress is when we are out and about. I still have her in pullups for going out (and we go out a lot on non-daycare days) and she never tells me if she needs to go, and is usually very reluctant when it comes time to go to the toilet. I don't know how they do it day care that is obviously so different from what I do, as they seem to have a lot more success than I do. I am seriously starting to get discouraged again. I feel like loads of people I know IRL who have just started have already got their kids all the way out of nappies and I am a bit useless because all these months later I'm still not there yet I try to tell myself it will come in time, and that I don't need to push it, but maybe I do need to push it? Arrrggghhh!
Oh pix em's still in nappies all the time!!! So Don't worry about others!!
Can anyone advise me on a good tting book or DVD (lol). I really have no idea quite where to start. Dd wants to wear undies but yesterday I put a pair on but she has no idea she's even wet them!!
Ahh pixie I'm sort of glad we are scratchig our heads together!!
I'm actually too scared to even try when we go out yet... I'm still putting the mcn on!
My MIL has bought some pull ups that we use at her house, idea being they'd be training pants, but she just uses them like a nappy. We've also got normal undies and actual training cloth nappies, but same thing - she treats them like nappies!!!
Anyone else have any ideas??
Ezy - what about the one you can get from Huggies, when you collect a barcode? Or there's a website somewhere that sells a book, I'll see if I can dig it up later!
Oh thank goodness I've found a thread dedicated to the trials and tribulations of toilet training!
My DD is 2 and a half and we've been "training" slowly but surely for a while. She does wees only on the toilet (but has to strip naked to do it?!) but we can't get any further.
I've popped her in big-girl pants to let her feel what it's like and we're also in the Nappy pants but she just can't seem to get it!
I found a DVD with Elmo and another with the BIG Blue Bear showing how great going to the toilet is, but she's not interested, so on we go ... !
I don't quite know what the next step is. Any thoughts?
Another head scratcher here.. my son is just happy to be a nudist!! He is a hippy boy- he runs around the house naked and wee's outside!! I have gotten him to wear undies a handful of times- one day he did really well, except that he kept weeing in the undies... he will ask for a nappy for poo's, but will just wee outside independantly no dramas.
I got a book from the library called Potty Training Boys, and so far we have done everything right- but in typical advice book style, they handle my two problems in one line "Your son will love to wear big boy pants" Um actually no- he doesnt seem to care about them...
And "once your son is used to weeing standing up out in the garden - he will adapt that to the toilet..." um..... ok, WHEN??????????????????????????
LOL.... We are taking things really slowly, he is great at all the things that are supposed to be hard... he sleeps during the day without a nappy and we have never had an accident, and he can tell me when he has to go- he just wont do it on the loo!!!!
Yes gotta love the books StarBright! All sounds so simple and the timeframes they present are not very realistic if my DD is anything to go by. While I take my hat off to someone who goes for the full Gina Ford style psychological warfare, I decided that trying to do it in one week was too much pressure. I don't know about a two year old but it was way too much pressure for me.
So when I picked DD up from daycare today I could see in the carer's eyes that she had given her the run around today. Apparently she was refusing to go to the toilet and acting like the carer was going to hurt her by putting her on there. I said she is always like that with me! Apparently it is the first time she has been like that at day care and usually she just goes to the toilet. I hope it's not the beginning of a trend!
Hi all...I am also muddling along with mixed results.
Op and pixie, I actually think pull ups are confusing...dd is starting to understand knickers better because they literally soak, but training paints style nappies confuse her, and she thinks it's a nappy. So far we just do potty at home, and nappies out, but I am scared to try knickers out because, like many have mentioned, dd doesn't really tell me when she needs to go. I have noticed she is aware of her muscles though, because she can wee on cue, so if I remind her, we can catch all sees in the potty.
My big issue is poo. Dd hides to do it and won't let me put her anywhere near the toilet. In fact we both ended up in tears last week over it and I think I traumatized her . I had noticed she was about to go and tried to get her to sit on the loo, but she screamed the house down. Now she waits until she has a nappy on.
Two year olds are do stubborn!!
Hope everyone sees some progress soon. It seems to be a real ebb and flow thing...
Our attempts died down until this week when DS asked to do wees on the toilet not once but TWICE! In the one morning. So he did two wees on the toilet (YAY!) but another two accidents on the floor. The next day he did the same thing again but then we had to go out and DH wanted to put him in a nappy in case he wee'd in the car. I was willing to take a change of clothes and risk it but DH wasn't prepared to take that risk! So since then, DS refuses to do wees on the toilet again What do you do when you have to go out? Just accept that there might be puddles on the shop floor?!
I did try with knickers for going out and friends of mine seem to have success with it, but at this point she just doesn't tell me when she needs to go and she is very reluctant to go to the toilet when we are out. I started to find going out so unpleasant and anxiety provoking that I really had to stop. I wasn't enjoying taking her out, I couldn't concentrate on what I needed to do, and I decided that until she can tell me that she wants to go, or has dry pullups consistently when I take her to the loo, I would leave her in pullups. I know its probably confusing for her but I just can't do it. If I can't even take my daughter for a babycino without having a heart attack something's gotta give.
She has knickers at day care so she gets the hang of it there, although she has had more accidents there lately and I wonder if that's my fault because I use pullups when we go out. We have this weird kind of status quo going, but progress... not for a while!
I feel like I should join in... Not that we are seriously starting in any big way, though!
But Sam seems to be becoming more aware of his bodily functions. If his nappy is off, we often see him grab his penis just before he starts to wee. I know so many people say just go straight to the toilet and don't use a potty - but my health issues mean helping him onto a toilet several times a day is just going to be exhausting and painful - don't want to go there. Again, the whole let him run around naked and stick a potty underneath him when you notice - maybe when my health is in a better state but the last few days it's been a challenge getting myself to the toilet on time because movement is so painful so that's not happening any time soon.
So we got a potty... Thinking that for now, we'd just get Sam to sit on it beside the bath while it's filling up. Running water makes everyone want to pee, right? So shouldn't be too long before we catch something and can praise him and he can slowly get the idea.
Umm... What happens when he's scared to sit on the potty? We can't even get him to sit on it! He does like to stand in it, though, but not something I want to encourage. DH is thinking that maybe we just leave his nappy on and try to get him to sit on the potty, but he really does seem scared of it and springs up straight away. Keep persevering? Give up? I just don't know!
Reply With Quote) DD did wee on the potty again. She was so happy
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for your DD indie!!!
the more the merrier! or is that misery loves company?
I send my hubby text messages lol The highlight of my month was when DS did a poo on the toilet lol Bet that was the highlight of his day receiving that text NOT!!!! Feel free to share your excitement here any time!!!! And YAY!!! for your DD!!!!!!
As soon as I put undies or even training pants on her, she assumes it's a nappy and doesn't seem inclined to either tell us she needs to wee or go to the potty herself. Any suggestions???
. I had noticed she was about to go and tried to get her to sit on the loo, but she screamed the house down. Now she waits until she has a nappy on.
pixie. It's all progress really...and as she gets older it will be easier.
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