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Toilet training vs. potty training
Has anyone trained their LO just on the toilet and skippd the potty altogether? Any advice to share.
I've started Isla on the toilet and so far so good - she's not scared ) . Shes 29 months so time to get started as she knows what she's doing and I prefer to skip the potty and the pull ups too if I can. I bought a toilet seat with handles and she talks about going all the time but nothing yet. If she doesn't get any further in a week, I'll stop and try again next month.
Hope everyone & LO's are well...
I've started Isla on the toilet and so far so good - she's not scared ) . Shes 29 months so time to get started as she knows what she's doing and I prefer to skip the potty and the pull ups too if I can. I bought a toilet seat with handles and she talks about going all the time but nothing yet. If she doesn't get any further in a week, I'll stop and try again next month.
Hope everyone & LO's are well...
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I would certainly recommend skipping the potty if she isn't afraid of the real toilet.
Best of luck!!
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Have any of you tried the portable toilet seat to use when out and about - they seem to fold up nice but tbh I don't want drag that along in my handbag!!!!
Thanx for the replies )
http://www.pottytrainingconcepts.com/46026.html
...not sure if it's worth the money or if she'd use it! What do you think?
I have gone back to using the potty as we only have toilet which is upstairs. When playing in the garden or living room she can go to the potty whereas the toilet she would need to go to the stairgate and wait for me to take her up. I have a potty wiht a removable insert downstairs and a optty upstairs.
However, if we had a downstairs toilet then things may well have been different.
Louise - i like the idea of telling her to hold it in her tummy, might nick that idea.
Go with whatever you are happier with, thers no right or wrong ways to potty train.
We also have the seats that go on top of the normal seat to make the hole smaller but she didn't like them - she seemed to like the whole idea of sitting on a big girls toilet.
At the end of the day you have to go with what is best for you and your child - I'm just lucky that my lo didn't mind going with what I had planned for her!!
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I am quite happy to skip the potty stage tbh - I find washing up potties totally revolting! When I potty trained my 2 boys, I got so fed up with them (potties, not the boys lol!) that I started them onto the toilet within a couple of weeks lol!