Another potty training question?

i have worked in nurseries with children who do exactly this! and i nanny for a little boy who i am starting to potty train in a couple of weeks (due to moving house).

it can be different around other children or a different atmosphere. i know many who havent liked to go at home because it was harder on a large toilet or the potty is uncomfortable etc.

others will do it at home but not nursery.

unfortunately it is a phase but is likely to pass soon enough.

have you got a toddler toilet seat and stool for home?

sometimes at nursery they do potty charts where each child gets a stamp when they try or do something on the toilet, i did this with my last nanny job and it worked very well.

another thing to do would be to talk to your son's key worker or staff at nursery and see what his behaviour is like surrounding the issue and their methods etc and then incorporate it at home.

also what i tend to do is to buy some 'big boy pants' 'big girl knickers' etc and put them over the top of nappies, then say to them when they have done their nappy oh lets take down your big boy pants first and then change your nappy, you know soon when you do even more wees on the toilet you wont even need your nappy and you get big boy pants like your friends/brother/sister etc..

that sometimes works - oh and esp if its spiderman or something! wow what a way to get them involved - in the morning, they tend to notice and make you remember they need them on!

it is little steps really but he really is getting the jist of it, stick to it and correspond with the staff, talk to him about it lots of praise and praise if he sits on the toilet or potty - even with nappy on!

he will get there, it takes time for alot of little ones.

good luck

lime x

well i know at nursery (im a nursery nurse) the potty/toilet isnt far from the play room, so try having a potty at all times in the room you are in, and ask him every 20-30 minutes, and encourage him when he goes on the potty/toilet by saying whos a good boy and lots of praise, you could also have a sticker chart and give him a smily face for a wee and 2 for a poo then at the end of the week if he has a certain amount give him a small reward e.g a toy car or something (then when he goes regulary and doesnt need the sticker chart just praise him) dont get stressed if he has accidents or anything though, and it wont always go smoothly either, and take the sticker chart to nursery :)

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My daugter is 3 and a half and it took us ages to get her fully trained, but we did succeed by not bothering with a potty at all and just getting a seat for the toilet as she thought this was just like Mummy and Daddy and much more grown up. Also there's a great book by Usborne which has a reward chart in the back, I got ours from Asda for £3.99. The chart worked well and she loved sticking stickers on after she'd visited the loo.

Good Luck xxx

buy him a training toilet!!!

much less intimidating!

another thing, he may want ppl at the nursery to see him as a "big boy," but still wants to be mommy and daddy's little baby at home. show him that just b/c he acts like a big boy that he'll still get special attention. try giving one m&m for wee wee's, and 2 m&m's for poopies!!! :)

**i read a previous answer about stickers, but small children need instant gratification. a reward at the end of the week means nothing to a child that age :)

get a toddler toilet and striker's and what you do is show him the toilet and let him know his a big boy and big boys go in the big boy toilet.then you keep sum striker's for a reward when he gets 10 or so take him to get a happy meal something.....and the rest of the striker's let him put on his toilet .good luck

This isn't a choice he has, he needs to be trained so you take him potty weather he says he has to go or not! You take him and make him sit there til he goes period! They have new toilet seats that have a potty seat built in for about $30 bucks at wal-mart and home depot. You don't wait, you train him NOW, he doesn't get a choice if he goes or not you take him anyway!