Won’t wee in the potty

[Johnjames1981]

Hi all, started potty training our 2.5yr old over Easter. He always does a poo on the potty/toilet but almost never tells us when he needs a wee.

He doesn’t seem to be bothered about being wet either and doesn’t let us know when that has happened. He will sit on the potty/toilet when we take him, and we spent a lot of time rewarding (stickers etc) when he has done wees on the potty. Yesterday he literally stood next to me (when he had no trousers or pants on) and just wee’d on the floor in front of me. Said gently “no it goes in the potty let’s go but it felt like he could just not stop himself” have we started trail g too early? We really don’t want to go back to nappies because of the confusion...HELP??!!

[Buisquits]

Its a tricky phase potty training. From what you said sometimes your boy does wee on the potty. What worked for us was asking the boy every 20min if he needs a wee and sitting him on a potty every 40 min to an hour. It is hit and miss but finally we are potty trained.

Good luck x

[Johnjames1981 in reply to Buisquits]

Thank you for you reply, we get confused about trying to get him to tell us he needs a wee, rather than us just plonking him on the loo...if we just keeping putting him on the potty/toilet...will he eventually start telling us??

[Buisquits in reply to Johnjames1981]

It was a journey for us tbh. We were sitting him down and at some point he stared saying he needs a wee. It sounds like youre doing well with the stickers and rewards, maybe your boy just needs more time?

[GemX81]

My eldest was just the same when we first tried potty training when he was about the same age. He would go in the potty for a poo but not a wee. In the end I think my little one was too young and we put nappies back on and left it until he was over 3 before trying again. He has those pull down nappies and we still kept the potty around and he still did poos in them. Then when we decided to potty train again he was over 3 but he got the hang of it really quickly and it wasn't stressful, for us or him.