What are your top tips for potty training?

Do not use pull ups they look and feel like a nappy or pants. Stay at home for few days and give lots of praise and encouragement. Try not to keep asking Lo if they need to go to the toilet, they need to recognise the urge to for themselves. Good Luck :)

We are potty training the Wee Man at the moment. I found that letting him come to the toilet with myself and the Other Half and see what we were doing for a while prior to starting really helped, as he knows its a normal thing to do. I also made sure we have a potty in each room downstairs and in his bedroom upstairs so that he has one in reach quickly wherever he is. We went shopping and let him choose his own 'big boy pants' and we make sure we give him lots of praise and encouragement, even when he has accidents.

A toilet seat that was always on the toilet (rather than one you have to remember to put on for them) really made a difference for us. The process seemed to take forever until that point but as soon as we fitted a permanent toilet seat something seemed to click in terms of independence. We have one of each of these two now and hid the potty! This week we just took the plunge with night-time potty training and I am sooooo grateful for our tencel waterproof sheet!

I think it's different from child to child. My daughter point blank refused to sit on the toilet or the small kiddie toilet seat and would only sit on the potty. She saw my neighbors toddler (3 months older than her) on the 'big girl toilet' and has now decided that she can do that too (thank goodness). I bought about 20 pairs of knickers and use nappies at night time. I don't want to use pull ups as they are expensive and to me, they still represent wearing a nappy. She loves her little girl knickers and we have only had a handful of 'accidents' since trying over the past 3 to 4 weeks.