Have you started potty training?

I'm not terrified mostly because these are my second & third children. My 2yos aren't ready yet and I'm not going to force them before they're ready. We'll try in the summer and if it's not right, we'll try again in Oct half term (I'm a teacher). Our first took a loooong time to tell us when he needed to go so I wouldn't wait for that tbh. You'll find your groove and it's nowhere near as awful as you think 😁

We’ve started and I was so so worried as well lol. But I only started because he was showing every sign he was ready and that makes things so much easier as they catch on quickly.

We've just been having the potty out and encouraging him to sit on it for last few months. Until very recently he would only sit on it in his nappy but the last week or so he's been choosing to sit on it with no nappy just before bath/bedtime. We've just started having a few wees on it. Then yesterday we went nappy free at teatime with weather being so nice, at one point he chose to go and have a wee on it and I could tell he knew he needed to go. But then he did a wee on the patio. Then he kept squatting on the lounge floor and just managed to transfer him onto potty in time for his first poo on it. So yes we're sort of accidentally potty training in this hot weather I think! I'm going to have to do some research though as no idea what we're doing. A friend lent a book (oh crap) but that seemed to be a very different approach being quite strict and going all in over a short space of time. But we've done most things in a baby led sort of way so I guess we're doing a sort of relaxed gradual approach!

I think my daughter is probably ready, but it’s us that aren’t so we haven’t started yet. I’m going away in a few weeks and we’ll probably start after that. I don’t really like the idea of not really being able to leave the house for the first few days though. We usually go out every morning I’m off with her. Xx

We had a potty out and a ‘no more nappies’ book for a while. I ordered pants and step up toilet sets etc to be ready to go when she was around 2. None of it was to push or pressure her I just wanted to be prepared. A few months ago she decided of her own accord to start. She refused to put a nappy on, and wanted pants. We just went with it. She still has the odd accident each day. We used a timer and stickers for the first few days/week and then phased it out. Don’t rush it, they really need to be ready to do it or it’ll be a nightmare. Keep the options there for them with no pressure and they’ll soon be ready

@Chloe we also have the "no more nappies" book. He ripped the nappy out of that book 🤣😂

My son goes perfectly on the potty when wearing nothing waist down. Don’t have an accidents however the last 2 weeks been sending him to the childminders in pants with the potty and a ton of extra clothes and he’s just not getting the transition in to pants, any tips? I’ve ordered some proper training pants. He just doesn’t seem that bothered to be wet or 💩 he will happily carry on going about his business playing and not tell us he needs to go but wearing nothing. He we take himself off to the potty and use it every time. Is he ready or not? I’m getting mixed signals 🤣 or is he just being lazy I don’t know. X

A friend who has potty trained her little boy had the same thing @Jade. They found having him with no pants but trousers meant he went back to telling when he needed a wee.