to be super proud of dd being toilet trained day and night at 2.5

[monkeysox]

Mini monkey decided she didn't want a nappy on a couple of weeks ago. Couple of accidents during the first week but dry on a night since she asked for it to be taken off!

Ds was 2.7 for day and 3.7 for night. Sorry don't want to bore my friends anymore because but I am super proud of her

Well done monkeyjunior

Ignore all the miseries OP.

Yes its a great stage to get too, age has nothing to do with it, its when the child is ready. A nice little mile stone passed.

I felt so proud of my dd when she was potty trained in day (not attempting nights yet), its a big deal for them
and you. Why not celebrate successes.

When my two were small (19&17) practically every child was toilet trained by 2.5, because that was when they started Pre-school and they had to be out of nappies to go.

DS1 was dry day and night before DS2 was born at 2 years & 10 days and DS2 was dry by 2.1.

Fine if you want to be proud, I was just grateful at saving money on nappies!

I read the same thing as all of you and all I read was that how proud OP was of HER DC. Nowhere did she say she thought her Dc was cleverer than any one elses DC. My DS1 was 22 months when he announced that he didn't want nappies anymore...my DS2 was 14 before he was dry at night. I didn't take offence at OPs post. Well done OPs DC.

Hear hear.

We can celebrate the wee milestones.

great.

though have to say that my older ones now 24/23 were trained at the same age as were all their friends. you couldn't start play group in nappies then and the places started at 2.7 months by me.

I think generally people potty train later these days.

I'm amazed at the accuracy that people remember these things.
2.7, 3.7, 2.1

Pleased - I agree with? Proud - not so sure, as it implies that we shouldn't be proud of older children who reach this stage.

DS1 & 2 were dry day and night before 2.5, DS3 now 4.5 is a whole other challange!

Depends ...proud of your child, I guess Yanbu
Proud of yourself ...yabu its not you that's done it

Omg. Of course you can be proud. What a load of all cats gracing mumsnet today. Really rude.

Well done to your dd.

I hated potty training so much. Most of my friends hated the weaning stage. I was fine with it. Potty training...

I have been on MN for a long time and I came across a thread I started around 10 years ago under different name, cheering because DS1 had done a pee in the potty . I received nothing but positive responses.

With your first, some things can seem like a major achievement. Needless to say, I did not mention DS2 or 3's potty training stories, because it was old (and frustrating) hat to me by then.

I'd be proud too! feck the miserable comment. wish I could be proud .. ds still wears pull ups at night time he just turned 5. I'm just too lazy to do it (thought of changing a double bed every night is putting me off).

Bit odd to put in in AIBU.

BprsetshireBlue

How does being proud of your child imply that others should not be proud of their own children. Sorry but what a pile of utter pish!! If people take that from someone saying they are proud it is because they have their own insecurities regarding the situation.

Should I not have said I was proud when my DD took her first steps because my friends older child wasn't walking? Or that I was proud of her when she said her first full sentence because a child at her nursery who was older hadn't uttered one word to that point?

People are allowed to be proud of their children, it doesn't mean they are judging somebody else and their kids because they are not doing something. The chances are the woman who's child walks first, won't be the one to write first etc etc. Everyone's children are different and I hate seeing someone getting a hard time for being proud of her child.

What's going on, did everyone drink their body weight in gin last night and are horrendously hungover or something?

It's odd to be proud because it implies that others whose children aren't toilet trained should be the opposite of proud i.e. ashamed. But it's also not odd, because we all find our own children's achievements amazing. So I don't know whether you're being unreasonable or not.

SolomanDaisy be careful you don't get splinters in your bum from sitting on the fence!

I think it's fair to say I am particularly grumpy today, hence my previous grumpy post!

Not only was I proud of DS2 potty training, I called it publicly a miracle. Which it was to me and DH. YANBU, I am proud of everything my DC manage to accomplish, I thought most parents were?

MammaTJ

Tell the truth, is it the fuzzy gin head?

OP is proud, I don't take that as criticism that my DS1 wasn't potty trained at 2.5.

However I do take umbrage at Shelley's comment that no NT child should be in nappies by age 3. DS1 was very resistant to potty training, we tried and tried since he was 2 but he was over 3 before he got the hang of weeks, and has only very recently got the hang of pools, he's just turned 4. All children are different, they do things in their own time & won't be rushed.

Well done!

I've only discovered this morning a good way to get DD interested in the toilet after trying lots of things...

"Don't sit on that toilet seat it's mine"

"Hey! It is not yours! I can sit on it!"

Fanjofortgenanaries, love the wordplay

... Wee milestones

Indeed!

SolomonDaisy has answered your question Insert.

I am not ashamed of DS3 - I will not be proud when he eventually manages it - Pleased - Yes! Relieved - Most definitely!

I saw many of my friends in my pre-children days get into competitive toilet training (which seemed to mean 10 changes of clothes a day and every trip dependent on being no more than 100m away from a toilet) - I vowed not to join them!