There are many ways to potty train your child. But which steps to potty train support your child an gets results? Some parents introduce a potty and regularly put their child on it to get familiar with it. Often, they do this in combination with a pull up so chances of having an accident is small. Some kids are potty trained overnight. If this happened to your child you are really lucky!
Are you not fuzzed to work on potty training for months and would you like to train them in a short time period? You can! And that is what we were thinking too. No dreadful months of accidents but an intense week full of fun and positivity. That is our way of getting your child potty trained in a week.
Another positive about this training is that you are bonding with your kid. He or she gets a lot of undivided attention and they will LOVE it!
Besides that, their confidence will grow massively when they have achieved such a big milestone at the end of the week. You both will be proud. Mopping will not be the nicest part of that week, but the attention and the result will make it all worth it!
Steps to potty train:
- Take of the nappy and leave it off. Children like clarity and predictability, it can make them upset when thinks are not clear and we don’t want that.
- Throw away all unused nappies. (In a clean bin) You can take them out later on to give them to someone else but by throwing away the nappies you give clarity to your child.
- Get him or her knickers on and give a compliment about them.
- Protect your furniture.
- Give lots of fluids so you can practise better.
- Leave initiative at your child by saying: “Will you tell me when you have to go?”
- Never get angry when he/she has an accident. They learn from it!
- A success is celebrated with a big cheer and a sticker on the sticker card.
- Does your toddler still nap in the afternoon? Use a pull up and call it a “sleeppants”, this avoids confusion.
- Hang in there.
If your child refuses to drink, we advise you to be creative. Buy nice new cups, give them his or her favorite drink (don’t think of the sugars, you can go back to normal after this week). Still no success? Buy or make ice pops, every child loves them!
Go for it!
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Hiya my daughter is 2.5 we have been potty training for 5 weeks and she is doing amazing! She wees in a potty in the toilet and always tells me when she needs to go.
The struggle we are having is with number twos. She goes in her pants, she knows when she needs and is having a poo but goes in her pants. I don’t know how else to stop this.
She has “nap Pull ups and sleep pull ups” again she will poo in these. She tried to go on the potty but has no success and not always. Any suggestions would be amazing.
Hi Hannah, thank you for your message. So nice to hear that she’s doing amazing with wees. We made a blog article with some advice about poo. Number 4 is a good one to try because your daughter can decide if she’s ready for the next step. https://pottytrainingbox.co.uk/my-child-is-afraid-to-poop-5-super-valuable-tips/ Hopefully this will work for her!
hi my son is 4 and a half he has a few learning disabilities, we have been trying to potty train for about 6 months now and somedays he will do it (maybe 1 out of 7 days) and others he point blank refuses, he will not wear pants only a pull up as he has a sensory disorder and does not like the feel of them against his skin, he also refuses to drink sometimes and we have done everything on your list but some days he refuse’s every drink offered to him. could you possibly help with what we could try or is he just not ready yet? the school have said he goes there and i put a mark on his pull up everyday and he still has the same one on when he comes home but it’ll be wet and i’ll have to change him. thankyou
Hi Natasha,
Seems like your struggeling for a while now. Our programme is used before with children with autism, syndrome of Down and other disabilities with great results. I think the reason for this is the intensive but relatively short training period of a week. This week is fully dedicated to potty training instead of just see if he will go.
As for your problem with him refusing to drink we also have tips in our programme, like giving him handmade popsicles, cucumber, or use a special cup with special straw to drink from to make him enthusiastic.
I think with for years old he is ready. It’s just making him enthusiastic to potty train. Your enthusiasm is key for making him want to.