Help!!! Still not TT at 28 months

if shes not ready then nothing will make her go. thats my experience anyway. both my boys were 3 at least before being ready!

Amy is just back in undies since January and she is 4 in May . Every day is a struggle and she is pretty unhelpful. Sophie is the opposite and is was in undies a month before she was 2.

I delayed with Amy because she was not showing 'the signs' and I had a small baby. With Sophie I just put her in undies and went for it. I wish I had done this with Amy.

sorry for the ramble but what I am trying to say is sometimes it can be better to just bite the bullet and see what happens. I think with Amy I missed the window of opportunity and it is much harder when they are bigger and can argue back

I'd give it a break for a while and try again in a few months time. Afterall, she is still only 2.

I'm also in the wait for them to be ready camp. She is only two, after all. MY mr 4 was TT just after 2.5 and he "self trained" although that said from about 20 months I used to put him on the potty after bath time as he always wet then, and made a real big deal out of him going, then I winched that back to when he got up after his afternoon sleep, then from there I went to no appy after that skeep, but beyond that it was failure failure failure. At about 27 months he just asked after swimming one day to go on the toilet and he has been in undies ever since - and only about a handful of accidents since that day. Also keen to note that about a week after we had to do alot of travelling and we just took the potty and stopped on the side of the road.

Miss just 3 is a different story. She has only been in knickers for a month and the first week was a nightmare. All the stuff I did with Jake didn't work with her, and she too eventually asked to go into knickers and I was hesutant, and after a week of accidents, she sort of has it. Still have one or two accidents a week, alkthough - also have done over 2000k of travel (a round trip to the bottom of the island) and no accidnets in the car. no potty either.
With ehr, I praise lots and cos she is that much older, I am able to explain and reason with her.

Good luck!

Not ready here either. We have tried a couple of times but Sam is a definite no go at this stage. It will come eventually I assume. I mean I haven't yet met any teenagers in nappies without good reason

I just worked out that 28 months is not even 2.5yrs! Meh....dont panic. My logic is as long as your not the last to TT why worry

We just talk a lot about wees and poos. If Tom has success we ring Nanan and anyone else who will listen. When he did a poo in the cafe toilet (shocked the hell out of me) he announced it to the whole cafe!! I am sure a few of them were too scared to use the loo after that

Tom showed interest in the potty from about 18 months but would go in fits and starts. He has been able to tell me when he has a dirty nappy for ages but cant quite tell me when he needs to go.

I am making the most of the "honest phase" that we are still in. If I ask him "are you doing poos" he will either say "I mam" or " I am NOT" (not yes or no LOL) If he says he is, I quickly look and if no poo....we are bang! on the loo.

We have lots of talk about "where do poos and wees go?" "in the toilet". "where did you do poos and wees" "on the carpet" "is that good?" ":no". A very common conversation here

I also believe that YOU have to be in the mood for it too. I know I certainly havent been. I am getting there and now we do potty before bath and I put him on the toilet a few times through the day and we always like to try other people's loos   90% we get success! Yesterday he was in the same dry pull up from 10.30 till 6pm, including a nap.....it was all good timing on my behalf though but I am hoping he is getting the habit.

So I'd take it easy and to hell with the oldies who harp on about how you were toilet trained at 18 months ( apparently I was....I just think Mum was toilet trained..he he he....of course I may have been super clever )

I'm in the 'give it time' camp.

Ollie was 3yr 3m before we started actively toilet training. It took him about 3 weeks to get the hang of it and I do believe it was because he was a bit older and he had made the decision to start. Admittedly we went through a patch recently of him wetting again, however that seems to be over with ... again it only happened after giving him some time and removing the pressure.

I understand about feeling pressure to get K toilet trained, I used to get sick of the, 'oh hasn't he started TTing yet?' comments. At this stage I would keep the potty around and talk about it but just in a casual sort of way (The conversation NZPiper described above used to happen in our house alot too!). I think you'll find one day it will click with her.

Best of luck

Odette, my DS is 2.5 tomorrow!

talking more and more = non bloody stop   Tom is a switched on little boy so that brings a whole lot of challenges.....I remember an episode of desperate housewives when Lynette pointed out to Tom that soon their kids would realise they out number them and then they'd be screwed. Thats how we feel with Tom (and soon James) We are struggling to keep one step ahead

This thread is great!! It makes me realise that maybe I am not the only one still getting accidents each day, otherwise I was definately feeling as though nobody else with a child over 2 ever had little damp patches on their floor!!!

A friend of ours said that she wouldnt/doesnt even try until they are two and 3/4 years, and she had 12 kids to train (and none of them are wearing nappies now!!! LOL).

Micah I started about 2 1/2 and he clicked then about no.2's but had very little idea about wees. I think it has just clicked (or in the process of!) now, but he still will say 'no' regardless if I ask him if he needs to go. So we have to use bribary, you go and then we will go outside etc!!

I really dont know what advice I am giving you, none I think (how can I when I havent succeeded yet!!), but if you wanted to, you could give her a go in undies and see if the wet undies affects her enough to want to go toilet. Only that summer is much easier for washing etc and some kids are quite happy to wet forever in nappies whereas undies all wet and cold arnt so nice!!!

Sorry for the essay!