My 2 year old son is showing all the signs of being physically ready to come out of nappies. (Tells me before he goes, fetches clean nappies when he wants to be changed etc, can hold his wee if not wearing a nappy)
My problem is that I don't think he's mentally ready because even though I've tried every trick in the book to get him to 'go' in the toilet/potty - eg sticker chart, ping pong ball in the loo, novelty soap to wash hands - he is very reluctant. On the odd occasion that he's gone on the potty I've gone OTT with praise and any accidents he has are ignored and no attention is drawn to it. This morning he sat on the potty for 30 minutes then got up, started hopping about and fetched me a nappy because he needed to wee. I asked him if he would do it in the potty and he said he didn't want to so I left the nappy off in the hope that he would just give in and sit on the potty, but instead he weed on the floor and got upset about it. Should I leave potty training for a while?
2007-08-10
23:09:25
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