Potty Training.. where to start?

I think our Jan 2024 girlie is ready. Her speech is good and she understands instructions and the general concept of the toilet.

She has watched us go, understands what to do then to flush and wash hands. She role plays this a lot with the small toilet looking potty we’ve had in the house for a while and on the adult toilet with us holding her, but hasn’t actual gone and we haven’t started ‘properly’ training her.

I’ve got knickers at the ready and books/stickers. So any advice of how we start from here? We’d like to use the bank holiday to give it a good crack!

Any advice appreciated. I don’t know if I’ve confused things having the potty out etc and now she thinks it’s a game 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

Thanks!

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Just do it, she sounds ready so go full in ditch nappies pull ups etc and just do knickers, when she starts to recognise weeing as being wet if not on the toilet that’s how they learn. My girl was Jan 2024 aswell and that’s how we did her

Jan 2024 mum with a little boy. His Nannie started potty training him whilst we was at work but she did it naked which he smashed in a couple of days and had no accidents but as soon as we introduced pants, he pretty much had an accident every single time so strongly advise to introduce pants straight away! X

The oh crap method. Start naked, pants feel too much like a nappy x

Yes we did the naked method, my daughter is the same age. We’ve had a potty for ages and she was using it every now and then. But I recently got one of them travel potty’s and she liked it cos it had a cat on it and she was obsessed and just seems to have clicked really

We followed how his nursery do so straight to pants no nappies or pull-ups then have a 15 minuet timer and take them to the toilet each time the timer goes of x

Yep naked for 2-3 days until they start getting most wees in the potty and you can spot their signal that they need to go. Then try knickers but got to constantly watch out for the signals and take them to potty every 30 min or so. Potty before leaving the house and when arriving to destination. Eventually it will click and they’ll start telling you when they need to go

Have a look at the ‘oh crap potty training’ book. Really helpful with step by step and common problems.

Thanks all! Did you still put your little ones down for their nap and night sleep in pull ups?

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