Oh, and like pp said, cold turkey is the way forward if you know she can do it but is just a little resistant - I think the biggest thing with ds was me not being sure what to do - just decide how you will do it and stick with it so she gets the consistency and knows there is no going back with it - in the end with ds I knew he could do it so I just had to take the nappies away and listen to him beg for the nappies back for 2 days, but I stuck to my guns and within 2 days he was pretty much trained (although lots of accidents along the way). Good luck! x x x

Hi hun, I know everyone says it and you never believe it, but she will get the hang of it eventually!!! Everyone said it to me and I carried on worrying and me and ds finally cracked it these summer holidays and he was 3 and a half. It was a slightly different situation for me - I knew ds could wee in the toilet as he had done before and I knew he just didn't want to let go of the nappies!!! In the end I did a full onslaught of various techniques, so I'm not sure what worked in the end! One thing I did was make a book called 'Ben's potty book' It was a little story of 'One day Ben was playing with his trains, then he needed a wee wee, he shouted for mummy and said I need a wee, so they went to bathroom, did wee, washed hands, flushed toilet etc.etc. Basically showing all the different steps involved and I included photos of him doing each thing (eg.photo of him at sink washing hands). The key bit is to end it with mummy and daddy photo of smiling faces and saying how proud they are of their big girl/boy. This book really seemed to hit a chord with ds and he seemed to realise how happy mummy would be if he could do it and he went for it!!! I also did pants prizes so everytime he went for a wee and wore his pants he got a little prize (just something like bubbles or a cheap toy car etc.). In the end you will fnd a way of making it click with your little girl and she will get the hang of it in the end. x x x

best advice i can give is to go COLD TURKEY. take the nappies away you will have lots of accidents but she will get there hun. t will take a couple of days to sink in but she will get it

My DD was exactly the same: no interest in potty training at all. At the end we ignored the potty and went straifght for the toilet instead. It was not until she started pre-school at 2 1/2 that she started to show an interest and was dry within days. She refused to have a poo in the toliet though: had to be in a nappy so she was forcing herself to keep it in until she came home in the evening, thankfully that only lasted 6 months as she become quite constipated and often had tummy aches.

hi. my dd showed no interest in toilet until we started training her. i would just go for it for a while and only use a nappy at night. maybe use a doll or something and let them have a wee first. we used to give dd a choc button everytime she had a wee. accidents will happen and it took a few days before she got the hang of it. she still has the odd accident now and then. try it for a couple of weeks and let everyone know what youre doing. if no progress at all she may just not be ready. good luck x

Hi there, this has probably been done 100 times before, but I really dont know where to start!

DD is 3 in a couple of weeks and is showing no interest in toilet training at all. She has a selection of pants that she chose, but whenever she has a nappy off she just wees and seems oblivious of it coming until she has done it. She refuses to sit on the potty or toilet, with or without a trainer seat. I have used real nappes and disposable pull ups to try and encourage her, as has the childminder and staff at pre-school. We have tried the 'when you going to be a big girl' bit, bribing with a new toy, sticker charts etc but no interest. Ive got baby number 2 due in January so would like to crack it by then or at least be some way towards it. Any tips or help please.