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In conjunction with HUGGIES® Pull-Ups® Training Pants and Essential Baby, you have the opportunity to ask Dr Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett about the issues you have with toilet training your toddler. She will review the questions and get back to us with her answers and advice of the most common struggles.

Dr Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett,  BA (Hons) Educational Psychology  and a Doctor of Philosophy, is the Director of Learning and Teaching and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, NSW. As a mother of three children, understanding children’s development and promoting positive approaches to parenting has become both a passion and a full-time career.

Find out more about Dr Cathrine here: http://www.drcathrine.com 

View her articles brought to you by HUGGIES® Pull-Ups® :

How to toilet train using a training pant

When will my child be ready to toilet train



What is your biggest struggle when toilet training? Let us know and we will get Dr Cathrine to give us some advice on how to tackle the most common struggles.

[tamaracazz]

I havent started toilet training my son yet, but obviously when you start toilet training the most important thing is that the child knows when he or she needs to go to the toilet and knows the difference between wet and dry..
Do you try to push them to use the potty etc during the night when they are asleep and groggy and perhaps not as aware of when they need to go? Or is toilet training for purely during the day?

[starboard]

DD is 2yo and 5 months old, we have been having a go at toilet training for the past fortnight. I followed signals from her to start as she showed an interest in what the others were doing at daycare.

She is happy to run around in her bare bottom or with a pair of knickers on and tell me when she needs to wee or poo. However, the problem is getting her to use the potty or the toilet with the step and seat attachment.
She insists on putting her nappy back on to do her wee or poo. No amount of coaxing works, not even the promise of a reward for using the potty or toilet. She gets herself into such a lather until her nappy is back on. She'll then tell me she's done it and want changing if its a poo.

Any ideas how to get her to use the potty or toilet?
Thank you.

ETA- She's quite happy to sit on both as long as she doesn't have to do anything in them.

This post has been edited by starboard: 04/03/2013, 04:27 PM

[Mamacass2]

Our biggest struggle is with Poo. DD who is almost 3 will do a wee on the toilet happily but when she needs to poo she holds it in and asks for a nappy. Very frustrating as my DS was the same.

[farfaraway]

Another vote for poo. And it was the same issue for my DD1. She would get herself constipated, it was such an ordeal. DD2 is the opposite - happily poo her undies, won't do it on the loo. Driving. Me. Insane.

[MelbChick]

Same at our house. 3 year old refusing to poo on toilet. He asks for a nappy. No amount of discussion can unearth the reason for it and no amount of encouragement or even bribery works. He says he is scared, but can't tell me what scares him. I know it can't go on forever, but it's is REALLY frustrating not to be able to at least talk with him about it.

[belbelchic]

i have just started progress with my daughter, she is doing well, except when she needs to go, and its a big toilet, she is too scared to do anything, even if i hold her, help....

she is into her 3rd week, and doing well, i reward her with stickers on a chart, and stamp on the hand...

still no progress with number 2's

[Hunch]

As per many PPs, we are struggling big time with poo. DS will be 3 in a week. We are one week into TT and he seems to have mastered weeing, he asks when he needs to go and hasn't had an accident since Day 3. He did 2 bowel movements in the toilet in the first 2 days but since then all others in his pants, doesn't even ask for a nappy...ugh! What do we do? Thanks.

[liveworkplay]

I am genuinelly surprised about how onerous parents (and experts) make toilet training. I have found with my three that, when they are ready, they will use the toilet/potty. Bribes, rewards etc make no different if they are not physically and mentally ready to do it themselves. I hear of so much angst surrounding TT that personally feel is the result of parental competition and expert product endorsments.

This post has been edited by liveworkplay: 04/03/2013, 09:03 PM

[*Rowena*]

How do you teach a 3YO to wipe his bottom after doing a poo? By the skin of our teeth we got DS toilet trained in time for pre-school, but they (teachers) won't wipe bottoms - and he is very resistant to the idea of doing it himself and struggles with the coordination to do it all when we force the issue.

Help!

Rowena