Potty training

How do you get your child to sit on the toilet? Mine throws an absolute fit. I’ve even tried bribing him with cookies 🍪. If I put him on the toilet and then give him the cookie he wanted, he’ll cry or act really withdrawn afterward for about 10 minutes, then go back to normal.

He’s currently 2½ and will be turning 3 in May.

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We faced the tv toward the potty in our room so it was a place he knew and liked and played Mrs Rachel potty version and at school because I do work at his daycare we make all the kids try to go potty or at least ask and when we get them on the potty we sing songs to make the potty a happy place

Maybe wait until he is 3. He might not be quite ready yet. We waited until our little boy was 3 in April to toilet train him. Also, the weather was better at that time of the year so it was easier.

We had a potty in the living room and a potty in the bathroom and just had her naked for a few days in the summer and left her to it where she picked it up. We tried a seat on the toilet but she didnt like it and has used it a handful of times. We got a mini toilet for our bathroom from amazon which she loved.

I’ve nog tried myself but I’ve seen someone use those light projectors while sitting toddler on potty and Aparently it helped them sit on it as it distracted them

We had a basket of fun and inviting things next to the potty which she was only allowed to play with if she was sat on the potty

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