What age was your child reliably potty trained?

DS1 - Just after he turned 3, but we're now back to square one with his poos because of ongoing constipation since last autumn, though he's very reliable with urinating. Unfortunately he's now soiling daily, but hopefully with a daily disimpaction programme he will be sorted over the next 3-4 months. He turns 4 in April
DD - turned 2 in January, and is staring to show an interest in using the potty, so we're hoping to start her over the coming weeks.

My daughters were 2 and my son was 3. Definitely not a cause for concern yet, and you're wise to wait until she's ready.

2.6 and 2.3. Had a lot of resistance from the first one. Both girls but my sister had her boys trained even earlier.

DGS managed to get himself partly trained literally the week before he went to school at 4.5. At that point, he would use a potty but not a toilet.

He's now 4.9 and is pretty reliable if taken to the toilet regularly, but never goes off his own bat.

He has been dry at night since before he was mostly dry during the day.

No apparent SEN.

We had lots of tries and they weren't interested but we made the potty a friend and it lived in the toybox. Complete and utter disinterest until they decided.

DS: At 2yrs 8 months said "want pants". Ho hum I thought packing spare trousers and pants. He looked up at me in the Sainsburys queue and said "need a wee wee". That was it - he never had an accident. He was dry at night at night a month later.

DD: a little later at 2yrs 9 months and I lifted her at my bedtime until she was about 4.5/5 but she continued to have a beaker of milk or two after tea Time. She never wet the bed though.

It was never an issue and they were much later than their contemporaries who all.seemed to be trained at 2ish but were having accidents when they were turned three. At the time I thought mine were very late. Bothe born in the mid/late 90s.

Eldest was 3.5/4 before we didn't worry about accidents when out and about. Went dry at night almost immediately.

Youngest was daytime potty trained at 2y1 month within a week, but still wears a pull up at night at 2.5 which I know is very normal.

I wouldn't worry at that age! DS1 is just shy of 3.5 and after a painful 5/6 weeks we seem to have largely cracked wees at home, but this is our third attempt (and to be honest, if he wasn't starting school in September I may have buckled - he's strong willed and unmotivated which are a fairly hideous combination...). Still getting there at nursery as he's so distracted, and still unwilling to poo on a potty/toilet. I felt some pressure from nursery to have him trained by last September when he went into the preschool room but he genuinely just wasn't ready - and actually, they've been pretty good now in supporting.

Potty trained at 23 months. But had a few accidents. No accidents from about 27 months onwards

3.5 minimum here. Then essentially got it from the get go. Did not "train" rather I provided the support when they decided they wanted to start using the toilet. Had massive false start about 18 month previously when I thought I should try and potty train because they could say they needed a poo. The ability to say they needed a wee and hold it long enough to get to a toilet came way after a year later!

We tried at two years and 8 months and it was a nightmare. She was resistant, cried every time we tried to make her go to the toilet. By the end of weekend one we had two wees in the toilet and 8 wees and 4 poops on the floor. it was awful. We had thought she was ready as she kept asking to sit on the toilet but we realised it was a game. She would literally sit on the floor then stand up and pee on the floor. She didn't understand what she was meant to do on the toilet.

Two months later and it was a different story. it wasn't perfect and the next few weeks were still awful but the first weekend we had about a 70-80% success rate. she was having 1-2 accidents a day for about two weeks, then we went on a family holiday and i had been really worried about it as obv not close to the toilet all the time. she didn't have a single accident all week!

Three months on and we get the odd accident. maybe once a week or fortnight usually when she's overtired. but she's getting there! She pretty much always tells us now too

Both of mine were about to turn 3. I took one week off work to stay home, ditched the nappies, on went the big boy/girl pants and they cracked it within the week. We never ever had an accident after that first week because they were old enough to really understand. I used nighttime pull ups for another few months as I didn’t want to be changing bedsheets in the night, but we moved on from these quickly too.

Dd1 4.5 sort of, tons of accidents until 8/9 she's autistic. Dd2 2 yrs 7 months (same time as her older sister basically)

Dc1 2y 3 months, she asked to wear knickers 1 day and that was pretty much it.

DC2 was just before he was 2 - he was dry at night around 20 months which I was taken by surprise by and thought must just be fluke but it continued and then I figured we might as well go for the day as well. He had maybe 2 accidents ever? I got very lucky on the potty training front.

Both around 3, DD informed me about 2 months before she turned 3 that she would be wearing knickers now. Few accidents but reliable fairly quickly, I'd tried a couple of times from 2 and was met with absolute refusal.

DS was a week or two before he turned 3. Had to make a bigger 'thing' with him, let him choose underwear, read the pirate Pete (I think) book, lots of praise and rewards. Took a few weeks until accidents stopped but once he was excited about his Dino pants and wanted to use a potty he was more receptive.

So very much on their terms. We learned quickly with DD she would let us know when she was ready to do things and did the same with DS. Nursery was a massive help with potty training, DS loved going to the little toilets with his bestie.

DD1 was 2 years 6 months. I tried at 2 years 2 months and it was an absolute disaster, she wasn't ready. When I tried the second time it only took 4/5 days for wees and poos.

My ds was just over 2, fairly reliable straight away, maybe a few accidents. Dd was over 3.5. Just as clever as ds in other ways - maybe slightly less physical as she was 15 months before walking I think but very dexterous, good speech etc. She was reliable straight away, I think she had 1 accident. I was so stressed that she’d never get it and we had multiple attempts to train her from 2 upwards. She just decided when she decided and that was that. If you read on here you absolutely must “train them” as it’s a skill like riding a bike that must be taught. I’m sure that’s true for some dc but didn’t seem to be for either of mine 🤷🏻‍♀️.

DD1, 22 months,
DD2, 2.5 years
DS1 just over 3
DS1 just under 3

Both 2.5. It didn’t take long.

DS 2.5
DD 2 years 3 months.

Both my elder ones were reliably potty trained by at 2yrs 9mo. My third is a tiny baby still, but I'm aiming for 2yrs.

Dd1 2 months before her 3rd birthday.
Dd2 was 3 and 8 months (totally refused up until this point then one morning woke up and asked for knickers) just wait until they're ready op

1st. Done at 1 yo 6 months.
2nd. Done at 2 yo 6 months.
3rd. Done at 3 yo 9 months - took forever.

DD was 2.5, DS was a month off 3 and neither showed any signs of being ready any earlier. Both caught on really quickly (within days).

All by 2.5, but we did it earlier in the 90s. We stayed at home for a week and just got on with it. I suppose most of us were SAHMs back then, which made it easier.