How to get a toddler to tell me when he has to go potty in public and how to get him to prompt himself to go.
I am a nanny to a little boy (2 1/2). We have been potty training off and on since march. In march we tried for a solid month with very little success and lots of accidents, trying to use the oh crap potty training method with no pants on. We took a break because it wasn’t working and came back to it in April.
This attempt is going much better and he wears pants and underwear now, and we’ve been leaving the house with no diaper on.
The problem is, aside from a few outliers, he only goes when I put him on the potty. He does not do it himself, he will just pee/poop in his pants unless i catch him. He also does not tell me when he has to go when we are in public. Today he had an accident in the middle of storytime at the library. We talk all the time about going on the potty. If you ask him where pee or poop goes he will say in the potty. We talk about what he should say if he has to go (he has said sit on the potty independently twice while we were out in public)
I’m just not sure what I can be doing to help it click for him or if I’ve just gotta ride this season out until he understands better.