How do you make your child poo in the toilet?

[Pickman's model]

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

She may not feel safe on a big toilet at 2.
Echo what some others have said. Get a potty or a lil child seat that fits over the big seat. Reading is lovely way to get them relaxed n have a bit of fun time while visiting the loo. Maybe she can take a fav. teddy or doll to use the loo too?
Sometimes a musical potty can work. Sometimes not. TONS of praise which I'm sure ya do anyway Even more tons of patience cos she won't do it til she is ready no matter what ya do imo.
A poo chart with stickers is fun.

The pooing is nearly always the last thing they let go of. It's a much bigger issue to give up than wee.

G'luck!

Yeah, again like I have already said in the thread I have a family toilet seat and she doesn't mind sitting on it. I suppose she will get better at weeing, I just wish she would tell me she wants one. I guess poos will follow.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

If you actually mean this, try not to telegraph your anxiety to the kid. It will just make it all the harder.

Japanese hole in the floor cubicle toilets.

Get her either her own little potty, or a child seat to fit onto the regular toilet. She's too small to balance herself on the big seat, and concentrate on all the things you're trying to teach her.

It's a family toilet seat. Does nobody read threads before posting?

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Get that 'I Want My Potty' book & read it to her a lot (hopefully she'll like it). Get her a potty & make sure she's wearing clothes that are easy to pull down (or let her wander around naked from waist down). Now comes the really tiresome part, ask her every 2 minutes "Do you want your potty?", just make sure you take the potty with you wherever you go.
Worked with my daughter when she was 18 months old. Do it now as it's easier in summer time. She started using it within a few days & had graduated to the loo of her own accord a couple of weeks later.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Get her a potty .

I hope I don't sound rude, because after all I did ask for advice, but does nobody read the thread?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

She may not feel safe on a big toilet at 2.
Echo what some others have said. Get a potty or a lil child seat that fits over the big seat. !

She uses a family toilet seat, and she seems to find it comfortable.

We are not going to use a potty because I am not keen and anyway my wife would not allow it because it's not the 'Japanese way' apparently.

She does wee on the toilet but I need her to tell me when she wants to go and control herself I guess. Maybe (like you say) Poop is something I need to worry about a little later.

 

[Pip]

I think what people are saying is that it's easier to make the transition from nappies to potties to toilets, than it is from nappies straight to toilets.

As you probably know, I haven't got children so you can discount this if you want, but I've got dozens of nieces, nephews, godchildren and unofficial small things I look after, and I've spent more hours than I care to remember helping them wee and poo. If you're dead set against using a potty, just sit her on the loo for ages chatting and reading, and be prepared to do it nine or ten times a day. And as others have said, use star charts.

 

[_angel_]

I think what people are saying is that it's easier to make the transition from nappies to potties to toilets, than it is from nappies straight to toilets.

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Cos small children fall down the loo!!!

 

[Looby]

I hope I don't sound rude, because after all I did ask for advice, but does nobody read threads before posting?[/QUOTE]

Yes they do and they are suggesting that if she isn't pooing in the toilet she might on a potty.

Also, you said she had a childs seat after people suggested getting one.

I really don't know why you ask for advice on here because you clearly think you know better than everyone else.

 

[Pip]

Cos small children fall down the loo!!!

She's got a seat though. I think AS knows his kid more than we do tbf.
That said, she might be happier on the loo but resting her feet on something. You don't know until you've tried.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I think what people are saying is that it's easier to make the transition from nappies to potties to toilets, than it is from nappies straight to toilets.

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Well OK, I think I was just asking for techniques for encouragement and routines.
For the record I will just state now that there will not be potties. Sorry.

 

[weltweit]

Get him/her to want to do what daddy/mummy do ....

simples

 

[Looby]

Well OK, I think I was just asking for techniques for encouragement and routines.
For the record I will just state now that there will not be potties. Sorry.

Do you mind me asking why?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yes they do and they are suggesting that if she isn't pooing in the toilet she might on a potty.

I just got the impression that people thought I had her perched on edge of the toilet or that she wouldn't sit on the toilet or found it uncomfortable. She doesn't, I just need to teach her to tell me when she needs it I think.

Also, you said she had a childs seat after people suggested getting one.

Well this really isn't a big deal but that's just not true.

I really don't know why you ask for advice on here because you clearly think you know better than everyone else.

Hey don't take offense, I have just said that we are using a child toilet seat. It's like a jam thread all over again. Just because I ask for advice on an internet forum doesn't mean by interent law I have to do what everybody says. There has been plenty of good and helpful advice for me on this thread (and others).

 

[Looby]

My daughter seems to be able to have a wee on the toilet. I stick her on when I change her nappy and sometime I get something, though it seems quite random. She won't tell me she wants to go.

I can see when she wants a poo, that's fairly obvious (if I am watching her at the time) but if I suggest going to the toilet she flatly refuses, even though she knows poo poo goes down the toilet (she mentions this from time to time).

Any tips?

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I don't have any bigger children at hand. Plus I'm not sure I want to be in the room when other peoples children are pooing.

She does have a shimajiro video.

I don't have a potty. She goes in the toilet.

Fuck no, I can't get that right and those toilets scare the shit out of me.

Oddly that's not the DVD we have but it's really really close. They must just keep remaking the same story.

I meant to write no pun intended.

I have to take my trousers off just to be sure and I'm still in fear for my legs.

Eh? give her a nappy to do a poo in?
I have a child toilet seat. She has no problem sitting on this (she likes it) and having a wee (see the rest of the thread) but shes not done a poop yet and doesn't ask to go to the toilet to wee and poo. Though she does sometimes just ask to sit on the toilet for no reason.

Post 30 is the first time you mentioned you had a child seat. There is a picture of what could possibly be one but I didn't realise that until I went back through the thread.

 

[spring-peeper]

Hey don't take offense, I have just said that we are using a child toilet seat. It's like a jam thread all over again. Just because I ask for advice on an internet forum doesn't mean by interent law I have to do what everybody says. There has been plenty of good and helpful advice for me on this thread (and others).

The way I did it was just to take the nappy off and let them run around nekkid. They figured it out and were soon happily peeing and pooping in the toilet.

I wouldn't recommend this method unless you live in the middle of no-where and get distressed when they poop off-toilet.

Good luck - and remember, as long as they can use the toilet by the time they start school, it's all good.

 

[Pip]

Good luck - and remember, as long as they can use the toilet by the time they start school, it's all good.

I think that's the main thing to remember tbh. I don't know what's normal in terms of developmental landmarks or whatever, but you don't want to give the girl a complex.

 

[Sir Belchalot]

I hope I don't sound rude, because after all I did ask for advice, but does nobody read the thread?

Not sure what you've got a bee in your bonnet about here but using a potty is a more natural position for dumping than using a toilet. Hope you get there in the end.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Do you mind me asking why?

Not at all and in fact the question has pointed out the fact that the answer I previously posted to this question somehow turned into a double post of some other reply, so sorry about that.

I like the idea of my daughter knowing from the off that the bathroom is the place for toilet. She seems to enjoy the family toilet seat so I don't really think there is a problem there. I don't really like the idea of potties, sorry.

Also my wife is japanese and all the japanese books and DVDs about poop and wee involve the characters going to the toilet etc, I don't want things to get too confusing for her. Plus my wife doesn't want potties and says they are not considered normal or clean in Japan. Remember, this is a country where you put on special shoes just to go in the bathroom.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Post 30 is the first time you mentioned you had a child seat. There is a picture of what could possibly be one but I didn't realise that until I went back through the thread.

I thought the picture was fairly self explanatory. How could that picture be anything other than a family / child toilet seat. Anyway let's not get our pedants on.

 

[Looby]

Not at all and in fact the question has pointed out the fact that the answer I previously posted to this question somehow turned into a double post of some other reply, so sorry about that.

I like the idea of my daughter knowing from the off that the bathroom is the place for toilet. She seems to enjoy the family toilet seat so I don't really think there is a problem there. I don't really like the idea of potties, sorry.

Also my wife is japanese and all the japanese books and DVDs about poop and wee involve the characters going to the toilet etc, I don't want things to get too confusing for her. Plus my wife doesn't want potties and says they are not considered normal or clean in Japan. Remember, this is a country where you put on special shoes just to go in the bathroom.

I kind of understand all that but as others have said squatting on a potty is a more natural position for pooing that sitting on a loo so it might help her. Then take the potty to the toilet and flush it away so she still knows that's where the pooh goes.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The way I did it was just to take the nappy off and let them run around nekkid. They figured it out and were soon happily peeing and pooping in the toilet.

I wouldn't recommend this method unless you live in the middle of no-where and get distressed when they poop off-toilet.

Good luck - and remember, as long as they can use the toilet by the time they start school, it's all good.

Sounds like a good plan but I don't think I could do that here. She deffo feels uncomfortable when she pees down her leg without a nappy (she actually mentions this when it has happened by accident) and I reckon if she was always without a nappy she would soon learn.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I kind of understand all that but as others have said squatting on a potty is a more natural position for pooing that sitting on a loo so it might help her. Then take the potty to the toilet and flush it away so she still knows that's where the pooh goes.

As I mentioned before she knows where the poo goes, she even says that poo poo goes down the toilet. I think it's because that what I tell her I am doing and it's also where I empty her nappies.

We are not getting a potty but I think a stool to rest her feet on might be a good idea. She actually holds onto the seat and sort of does a straining action but I think she is just pretending (well shes not pooing that's for sure).

 

[spring-peeper]

She actually holds onto the seat and sort of does a straining action but I think she is just pretending (well shes not pooing that's for sure).

awww - she's daddy's little girl, isn't she?

She just wants you to be proud of her.

(((atomic suplex-ette)))

 

[Looby]

I sat there for ages trying to work out how to spell poo and ended up spelling it pooh.

I'm very hungover.

 

[Pip]

As I mentioned before she knows where the poo goes, she even says that poo poo goes down the toilet. I think it's because that what I tell her I am doing and it's also where I empty her nappies.

We are not getting a potty but I think a stool to rest her feet on might be a good idea. She actually holds onto the seat and sort of does a straining action but I think she is just pretending (well shes not pooing that's for sure).

Just drag a kitchen step or something in for now, I think those stepping stools from Ikea or whatever are too low for a two year old's legs if she's sitting down.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

awww - she's daddy's little girl, isn't she?

She just wants you to be proud of her.

(((atomic suplex-ette)))

I think shes just copying me, I do the faces for her. I hope I am not confusing what the toilet is for?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Just drag a kitchen step or something in for now, I think those stepping stools from Ikea or whatever are too low for a two year old's legs if she's sitting down.

I wonder if a step exists that kind of fits around the toilet shape.

 

[spring-peeper]

I think shes just copying me, I do the faces for her. I hope I am not confusing what the toilet is for?

oh - it's been a while since I actually laughed out loud!!!!

 

[Pip]

I wonder if a step exists that kind of fits around the toilet shape.

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't, but it's probably for helping a child climb up or for a boy to wee into the toilet, so make sure it's high enough for her.