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any suggestions please
Isaac is almost 2 1/2 now and tells me when he is doing a poo and wee so I decided that now would be a good time to introduce the potty, we talked about it and I let him pick his potty, he chose a Thomas one and he chose his big boy pants (also Thomas) he seemed really excited about it but when we tried to put his pants on he completely freaked out and kept pulling them off, nothing I could say or do would convince him to wear them, I decide that maybe for the first few days whilst we were planning on being at home he could just have nothing on from the waist down which he was fine with, except that he refuses to sit on his potty and seems to be hysterically afraid of it, not just a bit worried but full screaming/shaking and clinging to me, then I thought maybe try using the toilet straight away but again hysterical tears and shaking. He seems terrified. I have decided that maybe now is not the time but he is getting older and all my other 3 were trained by now with relatively few problems, does any one have any suggestions where I could help him not be so afaraid?
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Like u i had dd potty trained before she was 2 1/2 with very little fuss and expected ds (who is now nearly 3) to be the same but he just hasn't quite got it yet. They say every child is different and how true it is lol!
I can remember a 'friend' forcing her little girl to sit on the potty til she did something because her siblings had been potty trained by the same age and thought it was horrendous- the same 'friend' recently tried to give me advice about potty training ds needless to say i took no notice lol!
Hope that helps a little! x