What's the best way to approach TTing??

[TaRhLi.]

Just wanting to get some ideas and plans in place and need some assistance and guidance.

I'm yet to start TT'ing my DD who will be 3 in Oct. She knows what a potty is and understands about having to use it to do wees & poos but hasn't grasped the concept of when she actually does them and as it is very cold where we live I'm planning to wait for the warmer weather to kick in so she can just wear training pants while TTing instead of all the layers she currently has to wear to keep warm - which would mean many more accidents and make it harder for her to undress and get to the potty in time if we started now.

I am also considering keeping a potty in the car for when we have to do car trips - we live 30 mins from our nearest town - and I also have a toilet seat insert which I was thinking of taking with us if we are out and she needs to go but there are only adult toilets available - I thought once we start if she knows that she has some familiarity it may make her feel more confident as well.

Also gettting ideas about the timing when TTing ie: asking every 1 hr then 2hrly ect but when you start the process how long would/should you leave them to sit on the potty ??

DD doesn't have ready available access to the potty, so she would need to ask me everytime she needs to use it. Unfortunately I can't make it available for her as with having 14mth old twins running around, the potty will then become another toy plus the potty is in our bathroom (we have the toilet in the bathroom) and I would like for her to associate using the potty as something she does in the bathroom not sitting in front of the TV IYKWIM.

So any other tips and ideas would be really helpful - I'm already dreading when the time comes for the twins to start TTing - now that will be a fun time

[Nai]

I have always gone with the 'she'll let me know when she's ready approach' in that I would mention the potty and going to the toilet etc but didn't push it. When they suggested that they would like to wear undies then I talked to them about having to know when they needed to go and to use the potty/toilet.

Both girls were around 2y9m when they started TT'ing so just as the weather was warming up. They started with going undie-free and using the potty at home and the toilet at CC. Once they had mastered that they decided of their own accord that they wanted to use the toilet so I used a step and the toilet seat insert - this is so much better than a potty! Not long after that they would use the toilet on their own. DD2 is 3y4m and can take herself to pretty much any toilet without assistance at all.

[Arimeh]

I've gone with the "wait until they are ready" approach as well, DS was 3 years and 2 months when he trained, we have tried training DD1 because she is fine with wees but still poos in undies, so she is back in nappies now. She's 4 next month. Hopefully one day it will just click in her head.

DD2 isn't much younger than yours - she will be 3 in November, she wears undies around the house of her own choosing, and grabs a nappy for wees and poos. We're just letting her lead rather than ask her every hour - and then clean up accidents, seems like a lot of work to me.. and I hate pee on the carpet LOL

[TaRhLi.]

Thanks

That's pretty much the approach I want to take ie: when she is ready she will let me know type of thing, and as we have kidney ossues in our family the last thing I want to do is try and push her too early before she is ready and then possibly at a stage having a fear of going to the toilet and then holding it in.

There seems to be a bit of a thing about TTing early but I just want to let her enjoy being little at the moment without having to feel compelled to TT.