Give me yours please! First time trainer, with a 23mth old boy.

I started to potty train my wee boy about 8mths ago, he is 2.8 now. I kept one potty in the loo and one in his bedroom on a plastic mat ( just in case )

As soon as we had started potty training, we didnt use any nappies at all, my wee boy didnt too well with getting the training pants down in time
So he was always in pants, and we just took a change of clothes everywhere with us.

Getting to know when he is likely to need to go, after drinking or eaing lots etc. Helps know for timing, so you can keep asking him if he needs to go.

We found it good to ask his nursery/nanny person to continue this when he went ith them, because ordinarily they would put him in a nappy and he would need 'retrained' when he came home.

I dont know if this helps, but good luck.

Oh, and make sureyou get a waterproof matress protector thing, as have just had to throw out a mattress after forgetingto put it back on the bed after it was cleaned.

My top tip is to wait until they're ready.

We waited until my ds was nearly 3 and it has been fairly easy. I was getting worried about why he wasn't potty trained and most of his friends were, but when we tried it at 2.5, he would just shout "No! I don't like my potty!" and he clearly wasn't ready for it. A few months later, he was much more receptive to the whole idea.

Wait until three - or more - and you don't have to do anything! Just take the nappy off and off they go (do some practice getting on and off the toilet a couple of months before hand). I call it baby led potty training

I agree with wait until he's ready, but there's no reason why he can't be ready at 23 months. It helps I think if they can talk well enough to tell you when they need to go.

And one of my friends' sons wasn't potty trained until about 3.5 and she still had to work bloody hard at it.

Also agree with no training pants, I think children find them really confusing.

wait until his ready but there is loads of things you can do before then so that you can recognise the signs.
1) naked in the garden, so gets used to weeing without a nappy on. you will also see how often he wees
2) have potty around
3) talk about weeing and pooing yourself.

well, he knows what the potty is for, and we keep one out. We tried training pull ups, but he just wanted to take them off all the time, or we couldn't get them down in time for him.

He usually says when he wants to go...but didn't this morning when he pooed behind the coffee table, and then got it all over the curtains aswell [puking emoticon!]

Would it be best to just leave him 'bottomless' most of the day, rather than having nappies / pullups on?

We are on Day 3 with 2.4yo DD2 so far we haven't had a single thing actually in the potty. Even DD1 has shown her what to do bless her. She's a bright girl and knows peepee and poopoo in the potty but isn't getting the connection as yet.