Please send help 😭 day 4 sucks

Please help, I’m on day four of potting training and it’s just not going great at all. My daughter is 2 years and 7 months so we thought we would try potty training. She has been sitting on the potty if we put her there and keep her distracted but she won’t willingly sit there herself. She has done 3 successful wees today on the potty as I’ve put her there but the other times she will wee on the floor. When she does, she doesn’t say she’s done a wee or seem bothered?! When in nappies she would sometimes say I’ve done a wee/poo but not everytime. Do you think she’s just not ready or I should keep going? Our house is quite tense at the moment and I don’t want to cause her any stress or pressure 😢 thank you in advance! (P.s please be kind, I know we’re only four days in so it’s early days) 🩷

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I would try again in a few months, my little boy was the same and we tried again on a few months and he has picked it up so much quicker this time around. X

I tried before she was ready and it was quite stressful and she didn’t take to it well. I stopped after probs just a day. I would also say try again in couple of months. We also asked nursery staff and they said ours wasn’t ready quite at that time, we spent the next couple of months prepping her which involved some potty training books, sticker chart, buying a potty just to get used to it being there. After couple of months we attempted again, and I can honestly say there was hardly any training to be done. A couple of months makes a world of difference, hope this helps xx

Sounds like you're using diapers, get rid of them. It's confusing to be potty training but have a literal potty attached to you. Offer praise for every successful step. Make it a part of routine. Ex. Wake up - >potty, going to paint - > potty first, done painting - > potty, lunch time! Potty first, after lunch - > potty. Once a schedule or familiarity is developed, it'll be routine to go (in theory). Don't pressure, prompt once then it's on her.. It'll kick in eventually. Use a potty timer, set it for every half hour. Even if she doesn't have to go, prompt to try.. Increase the time as you get familiar with how often she needs to go. Accidents are going to happen, have plenty of pants, change and just remind her in a respectful way that peeing/pooping is for the potty, when she feels she has to go, hold it and go to the potty or tell you. Remove the tension. She feels it, give her and yourself grace. It's not supposed to be stressful for anyone. Learning while stressed isn't a thing, especially for toddlers.

@Bethany thank you so much 🤍🤍

@Sarah thank you so much, this is reassuring to hear 🤍🤍

@Heather sorry she’s not in nappies, I meant before potty training. Sorry my Post is confusing isn’t it. Thank you so much for all the help and tips! 🤍🤍

We started trying I’d say maybe 18 months purely because she become interested in weeing in the potty, we tried and it’s a success at home but we just couldn’t nail outside the house, she refused to go outside of the house so I stopped as it was making us all stressed, I plan on trying again in the summer holidays when she’ll be about to turn 3 because then I won’t have to worry about what’s going on with at preschool I can just spend 6 weeks really getting into it

Heyyy just wondered how it is going today?xx

Little one may not be ready but id give it a few more days. My little girl picked it up on day 1 and she only had one accident that day. We had some issues with number 2 but were over that now and id say 100% day time trained. Before we started i kept telling her we was starting it soon etc and when the day come she was just ready. Some just take abit longer and thats ok. Hope it gets better for you xxx

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