How to toilet train children

[Angelight]

My DD is fully toilet trained in the day, but wears training pants to sleep at night. I'm thinking of letting her go diaper-free at nite but not sure if she is ready. How to tell if she is ready at nite? Appreciate any advice and suggestion. :thankyou:

[cnimed]

edunloaded,

hi, we’ll ask the kids if they want to use toilet before getting into the car. For emergencies, we will drive off the main road and get to a quiet spot where he can go under a tree. Might be a little trickier for girls though…

Angelight,
You can ask her. For my boys, they told me when they wanted to go without diapers at night. I was a bit doubtful because they were still waking up with heavy diapers in the morning, but I felt (with some trepidation) that I should not hold them back. The younger one just started last week. He helped me prepare the bed with extra sheets, but he did manage to wake up to use the toilet at night.

[tingting2424]

My dh and I can't stand the naggings anymore. Pil keep saying ds, 21mth old, so big still can't tell went pee or poo. So big still can't talk.

They don't understand that he's very selective in who he talks to.

My dd toilet trained herself before she was two.. Kinda hoping same thing will happen with ds but to no avail.

I've tried mil mtds. But it just doesn't work out.

One, let him go bare, only wearing shorts. If he pees, beat his bottom n scold. No use..
Two, every now n then bring him to toilet n ask him to pee or poo. Used to wk but hard to when my dd is ard n need to tutor her..

Now, whenever he pees or poop in his nappies, he won't come to me to change. Funny is that he will only let me change.

Now, what shld I do? I've read thru all the post but can't seems to find one that fits ds..:(

[sesame]

:oops:


Hmm... My 6 years old is still in diapers at night. Tried diaperless but she sleeps right through the soaked sheets and PJs. Great huh? She was diaper free in the day since 2.5 years though by the work of herself.

Pounding through various websites (mainly ang moh ones), it seemed that parents over there were more relaxed than us when it comes to toilet training.

They always says that when the child is ready, she is ready. Nothing before. It is a physical condition more than a mental attitude.

I since became more relaxed abt this condition with the exception of running around to find cheap brands of diapers to buy in XXL sizes

[sesame]

tingting2424:

My dh and I can't stand the naggings anymore. Pil keep saying ds, 21mth old, so big still can't tell went pee or poo. So big still can't talk.

They don't understand that he's very selective in who he talks to.

My dd toilet trained herself before she was two.. Kinda hoping same thing will happen with ds but to no avail.

I've tried mil mtds. But it just doesn't work out.

One, let him go bare, only wearing shorts. If he pees, beat his bottom n scold. No use..
Two, every now n then bring him to toilet n ask him to pee or poo. Used to wk but hard to when my dd is ard n need to tutor her..

Now, whenever he pees or poop in his nappies, he won't come to me to change. Funny is that he will only let me change.

Now, what shld I do? I've read thru all the post but can't seems to find one that fits ds..:(

I understand that it is tougher to train boys... My 22 months' son is also diaper-ed. Strangely, he doesnt like taking off his \"protective layer\". You should tell your ILs that you have a fren (me) whose son is very good in talking at 22 months but STILL CANNOT say he wants to go to the toilet. :celebrate:

I get the \"everything also know how to say but dunno how to tell shh shh\" instead :roll:

[spikey]

toilet trg for the night is really challenging…we have to wake up twice at night (midnight and 3/4 am) to wake them up to go to the toilet. We are slowly trying to reduce the wake up calls to once a night.

[tingting2424]

sesame:

tingting2424:

My dh and I can't stand the naggings anymore. Pil keep saying ds, 21mth old, so big still can't tell went pee or poo. So big still can't talk.

They don't understand that he's very selective in who he talks to.

My dd toilet trained herself before she was two.. Kinda hoping same thing will happen with ds but to no avail.

I've tried mil mtds. But it just doesn't work out.

One, let him go bare, only wearing shorts. If he pees, beat his bottom n scold. No use..
Two, every now n then bring him to toilet n ask him to pee or poo. Used to wk but hard to when my dd is ard n need to tutor her..

Now, whenever he pees or poop in his nappies, he won't come to me to change. Funny is that he will only let me change.

Now, what shld I do? I've read thru all the post but can't seems to find one that fits ds..:(

I understand that it is tougher to train boys... My 22 months' son is also diaper-ed. Strangely, he doesnt like taking off his \"protective layer\". You should tell your ILs that you have a fren (me) whose son is very good in talking at 22 months but STILL CANNOT say he wants to go to the toilet. :celebrate:

I get the \"everything also know how to say but dunno how to tell shh shh\" instead :roll:

Prob is that I can't talk to pil.. Everytime I say something, they say I retort them.. Currently trying another way with ds, he knows how to tell me after, will say wet wet than I'll tell him too late to say when wet, must say before. Today, he managed to tell mi that he wans to poo n he really did it! So proud of him.

[sesame]

Very good!!! Actually I think toilet training starts from this... they have to learn that they are wet first. Then learn to associate the urge feeling to \"wanting to shh shh\". Take heart!!!


Best way to deal with ILs is \"Orh, yes, ok.\"

[tingting2424]

Sesame, dats wat I have been replying… So, nw they say I got golden mouth… Hard to please…

[hardworking]

Ds was still wearing pull-ups at 3+. Very maru. It seemed like one day, he could pee in the potty by himself. But he would take a pull-ups from the cupboard and passed to us to put on for him whenever he needed to poo. He actually poo in pull-ups. No pull-ups, no poo. We hid the pull-ups so that he couldn’t find it and he poo in his pants for a few days. After that he sat on the potty. He refused to wear diapers at night. I tried to put on the diapers after he slept but he would wake up and cry. No choice, just let him be. He stopped peeing on the mattress after a month. We replaced the mattress and there hasn’t been any accident till now. Last year, my friend’s dd (3+) was still wearing pull-ups day and night as compared to her peers. Now at 4+, she is totally pull-ups free and goes to the toilet by herself at night. Some of her peers still need diapers at night although they were toilet-trained (in the morning) at a much younger age. Just let them take their time, they will out grow the diapers or pull-ups.