Potty Training

[ailbhe]

It would help if we had some idea how to go about it.

What we're doing so far, in this chosen battle (You have to choose your battles. We are currently fighting on sleep and puddles, and adopting a laissez faire policy towards table manners and toxic food consumption) is offering her the potty every time she removes a nappy, and bringing her with us when we use the loo so she has some idea of what's going on.

So far, she enjoys sitting on the potty sometimes, and stands up suddenly and moves away if she needs to pee.

I've also realised that if we're going to do this, we need to stop putting her in dungarees, as she *can* get the nappy off just as well as she can with regular trousers, but we can't tell until it's too late.

That, or we need to find some better way of keeping her in nappies until warm weather.

Perhaps when she's figured out that peeing in the potty is a good thing, and not a "spill" (a new concept I introduced last week or so, silly me), we can introduce training pants. Or perhaps we'll stick with nappies; they don't seem to pose any removal problems for her.