toilet teaching

[jenny_marie]

hi all

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[mybabythomas]

I wouldn't switch to disposable pull-ups, they keep the child feeling dry and can delay potty training. You're better off sticking with cloth nappies or cloth training pants.

What I do with my daughter (some of the time - we are not full time potty training yet) is have her in a thin cloth nappy with no waterproof cover, and then as soon as she pees I tell her that she is wet and I sit her on the potty (assuming she doesn't resist), then when she decides she has finished sitting on the potty I put a dry nappy on her and tell her that she is dry. Occasionally she has some naked time, and if I notice her starting to pee I sit her on the potty and 'catch' some of it, then I tell her well done for peeing in the potty. She likes to watch me emptying the potty out into the toilet and watching everything get flushed away.

[curbbrat]

second on the cloth pull ups. are you open to trying to get her to sit on her potty while you potty? make it a group activity and it might get her more interested. our baby poops every morning on her potty, we EC, and to get her to understand why i did my business while she sat on her potty watching, listening and i am sure smelling. we still miss some poos, if they come later but just catching that one fuels are will.

is she in daycare? does she see other, younger even, children using the potty regularly? that might also facilitate learning.

good luck.

[relativetruths]

I had a very easy time helping my son (now almost three, then about 22 months) learn to use the potty when he told me he didn't want to wear diapers anymore. Whenever we were home, I kept him naked on the bottom, and kept a portable potty in whatever room he was playing in. I explained that if he needed to use the bathroom, he could do so in either the little or big potty, and that was pretty much it. He had a couple of incidents where he'd start peeing somewhere else and then remember and run over to the potty, but for the most part when he was naked he had no accidents - I don't think he ever pooped on our floor, and full pees were very rare. It was a little bit trickier when he was dressed, as he was used to the sensation of peeing in cloth, so underpants weren't all that different, but I would try to make sure he'd peed at home before we went anywhere, and take him periodically (no asking, just take him to the bathroom, drop his pants, sit or stand him on the potty, he'd go or wouldn't and that was that) to try to avoid

[orange_ideas]

What relativetruths said held true for us. My DD was great when she was naked, or half naked, but if there was *anything* on her bottom half - even cloth training pants, she just pee'd in it. So my main recommendation is half-naked (or more) whenever possible then they notice when they are peeing. Or, if her cues are obvious, put her on the potty right away so she gets the idea. Letting her see you on the potty is also recommended by some some folks - that way she sees what a potty is for.

Good luck!