Mom wants her potty trained... she does NOT want to!

[5 Little Monkeys]

I won't force a child who is visibly upset at sitting on the toilet but I agree with mickyc. I don't ask a child if they want to go but rather tell them it's potty time. I have always had kids close in age so there are usually a few training at one time and I leave the hesitant one to last because by the time they have seen their friend(s) use the potty and how excited we get when they go, they want to participate too! In the beginning (the training part), I put them on the potty once every hour and gradually increase the time between. They are told all the time to tell me when they need to go because they are now a big boy/girl and we don't want to pee in our pants! Once they are trained and in underwear, I don't put them on the potty as IMO, that is me trained not them. If they are in underwear it is up to them to go on their own and they have to be able to pull down and up their pants as well. If they can't do all of this, than they are not trained and can not be in underwear at my dc yet.

Some ideas to make potty time more exciting.....have potty books out so they can read/see the process, have a potty dance/song, put food colouring in the bowl to make the water "pretty", use stickers/tattoos as an incentive. I didn't intentionally do this to make it exciting but the kids love it....I bought a family seat (the one that has a child insert that goes up or down on the regular seat) and the child insert is a colourful one with some sort of design on it, I'm blanking on the design, and they love using the big toilet with this colourful seat.