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    Posted: 07 January 2013 at 9:31pm
Now that my son is 2, we have started to look at toilet training. I bought a potty, and he has done wees in it once, and often sits on it and says wees on potty but doesn't go. I haven't been too strict on it though because of Christmas etc and being in and out of the house all the time. Just wanted to introduce the idea, so we have a go each night before his shower.

I think he is ready for toilet training, as he is interested in the toilet, tells us when he has been poos, seems to be able to control the wees to a point ie you will tell him to wee on the potty and he won't but he'll do it soon after on the floor, and he takes his nappies off, can pull his pants down unassisted etc. But, he doesn't seem that interested in going on the potty.

But the confusion I have at the moment is there seems to be too many things to do at once. We have just gotten rid of the bottle and are working on getting rid of the dummy. He is putting on a huge performance at bed time at the moment, and has been since we moved house a month ago, so we are trying to settle him down into a routine again there, as he was once very good at going to bed.

I feel like with all these issues already perhaps it'd be putting too much pressure on to toilet train now, and that I shouldn't tackle these things all at once ie don't take away dummy and bottle and try to toilet train at the same time.

Should I just keep going with my plan of putting him on the potty and talking about what you do on it for now then step it up when he is more settled?

Also he seems far more fascinated with the toilet than the potty and tries to get on the toilet, would it be better to get him one of those toilet seats?

I am also a working Mum so it will be tricky to get the toilet training done as it is, so I wanted to try do it these holidays, but it is proving more difficult than I thought. I guess these things don't always work to your schedule.
Me 28, DH 29
DS born 20 Nov 2010 (4 years old)
#2 due October 7
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Also he has had a lot of fears recently- the bath, animals, and has really stepped up the tantrums, so it seems like he's got a lot going on in his head right now
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Toilet training for some is a simple process, for others it is long and drawn out. My DD started tting at her own prompting just before two (and rather out of the blue too - before that, she thought of the potty as a hat more than anything else!) and is only now at 2yr 9m getting to the point where she takes herself off to the toilet each time she needs to - we are still getting the odd accident here and there. It has been a lot of back and forth to get to this stage.

'But, he doesn't seem that interested in going on the potty' is the key phrase to me - for DD, her wanting to use it was the most crucial thing for it to work. I know plenty of people who have pushed tting with success, and there are plenty of other approaches you could take, but given he has a lot of other things going on at the moment, Id perhaps not push the toilet for now.
Certainly encourage and make it available to him, and let him get used to the toilet and how it all works (and do look in to a insert for the toilet, those things are great!), but I think getting other things sorted first and let him settle in to his new surroundings before really pushing it further is probably a good way to go. Good luck
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