Tangent 21 - T21 Mums!!!. Advice Needed: Toilet Training.

Posted by
Keenangel

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Jan 12 2004

T21 Mums!!!. Advice Needed: Toilet Training.

Well our little ones are coming up to three years of age and for us, the subject of toilet training is rearing its ugly head.

Now, you'd think with Joel, i'd know all of this, but his circumstances were a lot different.... and it was several years ago....

So... any tips? how old was your little one when you started? did he/she decide one day that they weren't going to wear nappies any more or did you just decide one day that you'd start the ball rolling...

Hannah is still in nappies. She'll sit on the potty quite happily and she can sit there for quite a while and not do anything. In fact it's extremely rare if she does anything. She's still very happy in nappies.

I know all children develop at different rates and no doubtedly Hannah will decide when she's ready to start using the potty. I am not going to rush her because i know that causes more problems.

She's aware when she's dirty but not when she's wet and when we know she's about to have a dirty nappy, we sit her on her potty or take her to the loo (whichever is closest) but she stops herself from going, no matter how many times we're reassuring her or sit with her.

As i've already said, with Joel being autistic, he was three and a half before he came out of day nappies and that was done quite brutally (his helper at the SN unit he attended at that age decided it was time he came out of them and he never went back in them). He didn't tell us or show any signs of readiness to be toilet trained... so as i said, different set of circumstances....

Anyways, i'm rambling yet again, so if you mums (or dads) have any stories, tips or advice, i'd be very grateful

Thanks (hopefully) in advance.

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Teresa "So I can come inside of your kiss and just leave you on your knees"

I was quite lucky with the pair of mine 'cos I was at college when they were both toilet training so I just went in one morning and announced we were toilet training and let them get on with it, lol.

At home they just used to run around with pants on rather than naked 'cos I wanted them to get used to the feel of wearing pants and if they had an accident what it felt like. I was really lucky with Sam 'cos he took to it right away and was dry day & night within less than two weeks (he was 2 and 4 months). Billy was more of a challenge. In fact it's only been since he started school that he hasn't been leaving it 'til the last minute and then having an accident. He was always quite happy to sit around in poopy pants

Some of the things I used to do was when I went to bed I got them to sit on the potty. They never used to wake up fully and just sat there, did the business and go back to sleep. We had a huge pile of stickers in the bathroom and when they went, they were allowed to put a sticker on the potty. If they had a dry night we had a sticker chart and if they went dry 5ish nights in a row we would buy a small present for them. We also bought a kiddie toilet seat (from Argos I think) which used to fit over the proper toilet seat and have a little step ladder connected to help them get up. They liked this

All I can say is good luck, have lots of patience, remember a clean change of clothes everytime you leave the house and make sure you have a spare duvet ready to go 'cos there's nothing worse than changing smelly pee'd on sheets and duvets at 3am

Posted: 14:23 Jan 12 2004

Sange It's only kinky the first time!!! after that it's just the Norm ;o)

James has been dry for quiet some time now, I agree with T really, just remember there are no hard and fast rules, she will do it eventually after all have you ever seen a 5 year old in nappies, Just go for it, you already have the bonus that she likes her potty

EEppppp and James will be three in a week

Posted: 15:08 Jan 12 2004

Keenangel *Fourteen phonecalls a night??!!*

Thanks girls

The funniest thing happened today. We'd been on a visit to the library and were on our way out when her nappy fell off. She was wearing sweatpants and the next thing i know the nappy is flapping around her ankle!. She wasn't bothered as her dad took it off and put it in the bin and she was quite happy to toddle around the shopping centre without it, though the first opportunity we got, i slipped a replacement on her (got a very car proud daddy you see

)

And James will be three next week!!!.. yikes, where does the time go? Hannah will be three in about six weeks time! She's absolutely massive now with hair past her shoulders and she's a real handful, very temperamental and extremely independent!

And she loves Angel

(the man, not the show)

Posted: 18:05 Jan 12 2004

Jola

I'm in the middle of toilet training Georgia at the moment - she's not 3 until April.

I was quite lucky as at her Nursery they took it upon themselves to take her nappy off just before Christmas and she barely has any accidents while there (if at all). She takes herself off to the loo without being reminded.

However, when we're at home we had to keep asking. Sometimes she would go and sometimes she would scream her head off if we thought it had been too long and we HAD to take her. Then she got ill over Christmas and we went back a few steps.

Now - we're getting back on track. No problems at Nursery, though at home we bribe her with 10p each time she goes wee wee on the toilet (which seems to be working quite well).

The only downside is that she hasn't realised the pooh factor yet and still messes in her knickers with that one, even though we have bribed her with 50p each time she does a pooh in the toilet..... Still in nappies at sleep times though, but we're getting there and the past couple of days she's actually asking to go to the loo before "accidents" happen - aside from the pooh. With any luck she'll be sorted in the next couple of weeks

Posted: 20:56 Jan 12 2004

lizzieslayer Look for the girl with the broken smile. Ask her if she wants to stay awhile

I'm not a mummy but I am a babysitter and worked as a part time nanny last year... When I look after my sister's boyfriend's sisters (connect the dots) Melissa who's now 4 is still in nappies. But this is because she's not a healthy child, she's very under developed and cannot speak properly yet and cannot digest certain foods and always in and out of hospital. But she's brilliant at going to the loo though. We always ask her if she needs a wee wee and she'll tell us. One day she pulled down her knickers and tights to tell me. We call her the tinkle fairy. I think we literally have to sit her on the loo or potty. Always before bed time, whenever we go out and before bath time. I think you just have to drum it into them that they need to go in the potty rather than in nappies. Mel's nearly all the way there but she has the odd accident.

Posted: 11:32 Jan 13 2004

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