Potty or Toilet Seat?

for us we waited till last week(nearly three) and he is in undies at home and nappies when out.. (unless we are just going for a bike ride or something) he has had no wee accidents but does poo in pants so far..

i chose potty because I have another son and can't always leave him to take Ethan to the toilet and because he seems more confident on the potty.. haven't been out anywhere in undies so far but when we do we will take the potty

both my boys were three when they trained and they went straight to the toilet... Eden on the other hand we used a potty cause she was too little as she is fully trained now but not 3 till march.

i didnt put them in nappies to go out but the rule was we go to the toilet before leaving the house.

edited casue i put eden a year younger! doh!

Edited by Bizzy

Ok so its been a messy day  but thats ok, when you say when they decided they were ready how do you mean, Fin is aware but not really into it at all, and although he knows when he is weeing I am not sure he knows before he wees that he needs to go.

He told us all day he needed to poo  but when we put him on the toilet nothing, put him in nappy after bath and he went straight away.

I am in no rush, just not really sure when to start for the best.

We're just starting with a potty, mainly cos my PORSE boy who has just TT'd at home uses one, and DD wants to be the same! Nappy off all morning, 5 wees in potty, one whoopsie on the chair at lunch, then nappy for bed. She had a nappy on in the afternoon too, we were going out.

While it's only been a couple of days, she seems to think knickers are nappies and just goes in them (often straight away, like she's been hanging on), so even if we potty before going out we barely make it out the door before she lets go . Any suggestions to get her over the weeing in the knickers?

I asked the daycare teacher about the same thing SquishysMum and they said to leave undies/pull ups off G more often (ie barebum time the whole time we are at home if possible) and then try again with the undies in a couple of weeks when she had got better at going on the potty.

shelt if she is crossing her legs and holding it in she knows... sometimes you just have to get them into the habit of going to the toilet. Every hour or so ask them to go to the toilet/potty and have certain times like before dinner and going out that you have to go as well.

We went straight for a toilet seat, because DD sees us going on the toilet so wanted to start using it too. (She uses the potty at my dad's house happily though) She started showing interest at 18months and would ask to sit on it, but didn't do anything on there till 20months. Then she did most of her wees on the toilet but I didn't put her in knickers till she was happy to do poos on the toilet at 22months - before that she'd come and tell me she needed to poo, and I'd ask if she wanted to go on the toilet and she'd say "No, nappy". She's been in knickers for a month now and not many accidents. We only have accidents when she's too busy playing and i miss her cues, but once she's done a little dribble in her knickers she yells out "WEES QUICK!!!" and holds onto the rest till I put her on the loo.

SM, Chelsea was the same at first when I'd put her in knickers she'd just wee in them, but would tell me she needed to go while in nappies or bare bum (I made a thread about it on here). That only lasted a few days though. We put the nappies away completely a month ago (except for at night which she still needs) and she goes to the toilet before we go out and I make sure to take her to the loo while we're out. She's never wet her carseat, and holds on while having a nap too so I keep her in knickers for her nap (if she has one).