Toilet Training

[The Riff-Raff Element]

OK - into the second week training our youngest (two in a week) and it is going just peachy: 90% succuss (ie in potty with only minimal "overflows") on both solids and liquids and she is showing clear signs of understanding what the reducer seat is for on the loo (next step) and I have done this twice before, but could I just take the opportunity to say IT IS DISGUSTING AND I FEEL ILL!!!!

That's better.

[Annpan]

Is it any more disgusting that... say... puke on your bed, puke in their bed, yellow baby poo leakage onto clothes and baby bouncer, deciding they don't like food (after it is in their mouth), etc, etc, etc.

Just wondering


I haven't started potty training yet... E isn't showing the right 'signs' yet.

[citizentwiglet]

ROFL at Annpan.....

Well done to your wee girl (no pun intended!). Would you like to come over to sunny Glasgow and show Ellis what the potty is for, before he's 27 and wearing towels as prefolds?!

In our house, it goes a bit like this...

Nappy comes off, child runs around the house like madman.
Child is offered potty. Child puts potty on head.
Child's bottom is put on potty. Child jumps up as if scolded and proceeds to place Thomas the Tank Engine, cars, mega-bloks etc in potty.
Child is persuaded back onto potty by promises to read The Gruffalo's Child, When A Monster Is Born and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Reading is done. Potty remains empty. Child runs to kitchen to get nappy.
Nappy put on, child then poos precisely 2 seconds later.

Oh...and the rather fetching duck-faced child's toilet seat attachment is
a) a source of terror
b) frequently pulled off and thrown down the stairs....



Right, when can I pack him up in a big box and send him over to you?? I will remember the air-holes, obviously.

[Rod in Japan]

Our boy used to poo when we were in the bath together. It was good fun herding all the turds to the other end of the bath, and pretending they weren't there.

[kiwirach]

Our boy used to poo when we were in the bath together. It was good fun herding all the turds to the other end of the bath, and pretending they weren't there.

Rod....reminds me of 3 kids i nannyed for 20-ish yrs ago.....they were 1, 3, and 5 at the time, all in the bath and the 1yr old(g) poohed in the bath......now, i've never seen the boys get out of that bath quick enough.....normally its halling them out after all the water was gone!.

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Is it any more disgusting that... say... puke on your bed, puke in their bed, yellow baby poo leakage onto clothes and baby bouncer, deciding they don't like food (after it is in their mouth), etc, etc, etc.

Just wondering

Oddly, yes it is. But I'm not entirely sure why. I mean handling nappies - particularly terries - can be a fairly vile experience, but I can change those day-in-day-out with a song in my heart and a merry quip on my lips. There's always soap, I reason.

Show me a neatly presented poo island in the middle of wee lake and my day instantly becomes overcast. Sure I cheer with the best of them to encourage her the more, but there is darkenss in my heart and a churning in my stomach.

But the prize for getting her clean is that she can go to the village school with her sisters. I have seldom seen a child howl with such indignation at not being allowed to go school. And I notice that she's already got a peg with her name on it - there's only about 40 snotties in the school, so each new arrival is something of a red letter day!

CT - Sorry: after this one I'm done with toilet training! The scene you paint is very familar, particularly the throwing of the little loo seat, which does have some surprising aerodynamic properties I note

[Rod in Japan]

Show me a neatly presented poo island in the middle of wee lake and

I could barely resist sneaking it out of the house and secreting it in a hole in a hot part of the compost. I'd have to be quick, like, or other family members would have hysterics. It helps if you can view these things as a resource...

[rockchick]

The lowest point was after day training Megan, before she was 2 ( real nappies encourage an early start in this area) and still sleeping in a cot so not night trained. She took to removing her sleeping bag, pJs and nappy so that she could take a dump in the corner of her cot! We quickly decided to take the side off the cot (hadn't quite budgeted for a bed for her) and leave the potty in the corner of the room. Worked a treat til she started tipping the contents out of the potty.

[Esther.R]

If it is any consolation to those whose little ones are not potty trained yet, Beth is 3 in December, was not having any real success with potty training at all, then when we were away having Lucy she suddenly decided to potty train herself and has gone from strength to strength since we came back despite the distractions of new baby etc. She has virtually needed no intervention from us, just decided to do it herself and there has hardly been an accident since.

As for the effect, it doesn't really bother me so can't help there. Snotty noses bother me far more - funny what things affect us isn't it?

[mrsflibble]

I've posted this before but somewhere on here is a recipe for fake poo which we used with sophs teddy to get her to get the idea of the potty.


children are disgusting and often i dont understand why anyone has them; except when i look back at the aching gap I had before I got pregnant with soph and how much she fulfills my life.....awww. she's covered in yogurt right now.