My daughter seems to want to start potty training?

I potty trained my twins, who are now 2 years 7 months, at 19 months and they have been in underwear during the day since then. They are still wearing nappies overnight.

I initially introduced the potty as soon as the girls could sit up at around 8 months so it wasn't a new concept when I decided it was time to ditch the nappies. I also taught them a sign for potty which I used every time I use the word "potty" and they used it to tell me they need to go right up until they could tell me they needed to go.

I'm constantly amazed at how much kids actually understand so I started sitting the girls on the potty at predictable times - straight after they woke and about 15-20 minutes after a meal or a decent drink. I also found using verbal cues helpful, so little grunts to encourage them to poop (and praising her afterwards). I also signed over and over every time they sat on the potty and repeated the word.

For us when it came to ditching the nappies, I just told them in the days leading up that we would be wearing knickers soon, then on the day I regularly reminded them both that they need to tell me if they need to pee, and as soon as I put my girls into underwear that was it, no more nappies except at sleep times, and that meant no pull-ups or nappies when out as this just confuses the child.

Amazingly they signed to me most times on the first day and were fairly successful from there. Obviously there were accidents, on some days there were none, while other days there might have been two or three, and one of my girls seemed to work it out better than the other, but I put it all down to being part of the learning curve.

Good luck with it all!

Every time you need to go to the bathroom, tell her mummy has to go potty, and then have her come with you and hang out with you while you go potty, so she can see you sit on potty, get tissue, flush toilet, wash hands and then get yourself a reward sticker for going potty. Some children just need to learn by example, you can talk thru the steps to the reward. She'll soon realize going potty like mummy is much more rewarding and may even give her the sense of being a big girl now not a baby anymore.

Also i recommend one of those potty seats on the toilet rather than a little portable potty things.

Some kids get interested at that age as they watch you and try to copy. Praise her for efforts to get her pee in the potty, and encourage her to sit there if she seems interested. There is a good book called the Everything Potty Training Book. Good luck.

Our daughter is the same age & showing interest too!! We have just been encouraging her tO sit on it whilst we are on the toilet so she gets familiar with sitting (she prefers to straddle it & be silly) but she is becoming upset every time she does a wee or a poo & try's to take her nappy off!