Potty training

My girl turned 2 last week and I’m not thinking of potty training her as yet. I know she’s not ready, so will wait longer. To be honest, I’m not in rush at all. My older one was nearly 3 when she started nursery and she was old enough to understand when she needed a wee/poo, so it was a quick transition. X

i just know my 2 year old isn’t ready yet, so i haven’t even attempted it. he has a potty ready for him, but he’s just not there yet so i’m going to wait until he shows signs that he’s ready ☺️

Hey yes I potty trained my little boy a week before his second birthday. I tried a month or two before and he just wasn’t getting it so I gave up after a few days and tried again and the penny dropped. 1) get the right potty. I didn’t realise this was a thing until he sat in it and peed on the floor. You need a potty with the lip at the front. 2) keep him bottom half naked all the time in the house so you can quickly grab him if he starts to pee or he can independently sit on the potty. 3) sticker charts work really well for my son as he was excited and clocked that he had a reward for going on the potty 4) the first few days are tough as your carpet will likely stink of wee but persevere as the penny will drop. 5) I try and stay away from nappies because it’s confusing and doesn’t help. When you feel confident enough to you can buy super absorbent pants, to help when you’re out the house. But expect accidents. 6) if he does have an accident just say uh oh, we do it on the potty

Try the “oh crap” book. Has some great tips. But honestly, potty training shouldn’t be painful for you or them. If he’s resisting and getting upset then he’s not ready. Try again in 6 months. We tried to train my son at 2, he absolutely wasn’t ready. Tried again at 2y/10m and he was done in a day

We had the same and therefore decided he just isn’t ready yet.

I got potties ready for my daughter early, I put one in the bathroom and one in the living room. She started showing interest by sitting in on the potty herself in the bathroom when I would go to the bathroom. Then she started taking her nappy off around 7pm so we would leave it off and see what happened. A few accidents later and she started using the potty. We then phased into leaving her nappy off in the day time so she would start using her potty more, again there were some accidents but she's got the hang of it now. We still use pull ups when we go out and nappies at bed time. And she's started telling us when she wants a wee while we are out. In the no pants stage we also showed her some potty training videos, and were very enthusiastic whenever she used the potty. Didn't shout for accidents, just explained that wee wee goes in the potty. If your son isn't ready yet that's okay. Give him time and don't stress yourself too much.

I just started by having the potty around all the time in the livingroom, let her play with it and then started saying to her when we were changing her nappy “do we need to go potty?” And would pop her on. I tend to put on her favourite show or sit her next to the coffee table with some toys so she can play a little so she’s more relaxed and that seems to help a bit and stops her just wandering off or getting upset. By no means are we fully potty trained yet, we’re very much taking it at her pace, but she does now ask for potty sometimes and will go grab it and pull it over, we encourage her to pull down her nappy and she has successfully used it a number of times now and we heavily praise her, but that’s her thing, she thrives off lots of praise. Each kid is different and yours will have their own reward system but I think it definitely works. Keep at it, they’ll do great in their own time!