Toilet training child number 2
Hello sisterhood, I’m having a lot of trouble toilet training my almost three year old daughter. I’m not sure if it’s because she’s my second child and I just don’t have as much time as I did before with my son or if she’s just not ready yet.
She always says she needs the toilet but has already gone in her nappy or undies, I take her to the toilet even if she’s had an accident anyway and she happy to sit there and try to go. I take her frequently throughout the day and always ask her/ tell her it’s time to go to the toilet.
She starts kinder next year, so I would really like to get her as close to being day trained as I can before then.
Any help/advance/tips/tricks are greatly appreciated
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It sounds like she isn’t understanding when to go to the toilet. Some kids need help recognising that full bladder/pee is about to come feeling.
What we did with my son was, let him run around with out a nappy/nickers on and and observe signs of when he needed to go. So for him he had a hard tummy. Some kids wiggle, some kids it’s standing still. And that’s when we’d prompt him to go to the toilet. He was fully trained with in a week, once he realised when he needed to go.
My eldest toilet trained with no issues at all. My youngest was showing interest in wanting to use the toilet but wouldn’t sit still long enough to do anything. In the end I started sitting him on the potty in front of the tv. Once he’d done his first wee on the potty he understood what he needed to do. Each time after that he would sit for a shorter length of time before weeing. Purely by chance we caught a poo in the potty and that then clicked for him as well. After a week or so he moved back to the toilet.