Average potty training age

[monsterad]

What the average age a child is potty trained during the day? I know night time is different for a few reasons

Id say between 2-3.5, with very few before/after then.

And I am sorry, but children starting in a school nursery or reception still in nappies is not acceptable.

I eagerly await the publication of your parenting book.

I remember my nan telling me "the sooner you start, the longer it takes".

I found the opposite was true actually

I always took the saying to refer to signs of readiness rather than age so if you start before they're ready or at very outside edge of being ready it will take longer than it would it you waited until they were actually ready.

What signs do you look for that indicate they're ready? Or do you just roll with it

For us the signs of readiness were:

• a nappy being dry for ages before being used, a sign that they can hold on before going

• knowing that they're going, my DC would pause what they were doing while peeing which showed they were aware

• awareness of when their nappy is used, when they started trying to take off the nappy/bringing me a fresh nappy/asking for a fresh nappy straight after they'd used it that was a good sign

• hiding to poop or pooping at roughly the same time each day

And you do sort of have to roll with it too, some kids will take to it straight away and others will be more resistant, some like rewards and some aren't bothered, some prefer a potty and others prefer the toilet.

A general rule of thumb is that they should make progress so day one they might have a lot of accidents but they should have less and less as the days go on. If after 3-4 days they're making no progress at all then go back in nappies and try again a few weeks later because life is too short to be scrubbing piss out of the carpet ten times a day.

Both my boys were 2.5 and it only took a few days each.

These threads always turn into 'my child is better than your child' arguments. All kids are different. My mum swears I was toilet trained at 18 months - however I regularly (daily) wet myself while at nursery school age 3 to 4.5!

DD turned 3 in August and we're 3 days in to potty training. She's doing really well at home but not at all at nursery. We tried practicing on the potty at 22 months, age 2, and then every couple of months until age three with absolutely no luck. This is the first time she's getting it. She isn't SEN. All kids are different, don't judge others.

WE were actually quite lucky and both of ours were ready around 2.5 years and trained no problems. I had a friend whose child wasn't ready at 3 years old but she was pressured by family into trying. She tried a few times and it led to issues with witholding which went on for years, way past the time he potty trained. With her second who was quite similar she waited until he was 3.5 years (so shock horror he went to nursery in nappies at first - the staff were fine with it). He trained at 3.5 years no issue. She desperately wished she'd waited with her first too.

DS1 did it just after his 3rd birthday. Could probably have tried a few months sooner but I had DS2 when he was 2y8m and frankly it was easier to have 2 in nappies for a short while than be trying to chase DS1 to the toilet/clean up wee! He got it very quickly for wees, poo took a little longer, but since he first managed to get a poo on the potty we've never had a poo accident.

All before 2.5. My DS wasn't quite two. He was a very early talker and he announced one morning that he wasn't wearing nappies anymore. He took himself off to the loo and did a standing up wee. I said that he'd need a nappy at night and he refused to wear one and never once had an accident.

My daughter saw another child use a potty at 23 months, and said she wanted to do the same. Over the course of that weekend we let her run around the house half naked, and barring a couple of accidents, she used the loo or potty every time. On the Monday morning I asked her on the way to nursery if she wanted a nappy or knickers. She wanted knickers, so we stopped off to buy some and she never looked back.
We never attempted 'training', just followed her cues and accepted the occasional accident. Within a coyote of months her nappy was always dry in the morning, so we stopped bothering with that too.