Potty training advice please

They just need to get used to the feeling of needing to go and the control. Give it a couple more days but maybe the pants are too early.

We had to make our son sit on the potty for probably a couple of weeks, because he just didn’t realise when he needed it until it was too late as he was too distracted playing. Now he’s learnt the sensation of needing to go, we don’t have to ask him at home at all, he will get himself on the potty. However, if we’re out and about we still have to make him sit on it every couple of hours in order to avoid accidents. I know it feels like you aren’t getting anywhere at the moment but keep going and he will get it!

@Rosie did you just keep him in undies whilst he was getting used to going on the potty and used to the sensation or having a wee? I don’t want to give up and put him in nappies after a few days of trying. He’s doing so well at holding it in and then going when I ask him after two hours of holding it but he’s not really telling me often that he needs to go I always have to ask him so we don’t have a lot of accidents but I’m not sure if that’s what I’m meant to be doing. Everywhere online tells you to wait for signs but then other sites tell you to just crack on as there’s never the right time x

We had no signs of readiness but decided to try a few weeks before he was 3. After 3 wee accidents, he seemed to get it, but he kept wanting pants on so made it a bit harder. Now he is very stubborn and won't go unless he either really needs to or we almost bribe him to.

Yes just in pants at home. It was literally just the telling us part he struggled with, he would go once on the potty 😂 I think he was just too used to nappies tbh so had never had to listen to his body. We had a couple of days where we were travelling (involving connecting flights etc) in the middle of potty training so we put him back in pull ups and I would say that probably set us back 2 weeks tbh

We started end of January, she rarely tells us she needs a wee we usually have to tell her to try on the potty. We'll go a few days or even a week without any accidents but then she'll just sit & wet herself again. She had a couple of accidents yesterday because she was knackered from dropping her nap & not quite sleeping long enough at night to compensate for the lost sleep. But she's hates stopping what she's doing, so stopping to go wee, she just doesn't want to do it so we do have to tell her to stop & use the potty. Her 6 year old cousin is the same & while she's not having accidents anymore still leaves it until the last possible moment before going to the toilet

So glad to read these comments. I started over a week ago and my LG only knows it's coming when she starts her pee but then she holds it and asks for the potty. My childminder was very checky and said to keep her at home another week she's not had a child yet that didn't know they had to pee a week after potty training. ( I could go on) I've been stressing myself so much trying to think how to get her to realize she has to go before she starts.

Our potty training was 3 days. First 2 days he pee alot,3th day he used to pee in the potty. And the 4 day when he wake up i just put the panths and he start to say when he have poo or pee. Tonight he has dry nappies,and all day we don't have accident. I will give him 1 week more for the night nappies ,and if he is dry i will remove them. Usually i change him 1 time during the night because he was use to pee alot at night.