To ask when your children were potty trained?

[Chickensoupandbread]

Starting to stress a bit and I know you shouldn’t but can’t even make the smallest steps as my toddler won’t even sit on the potty, just refuses to. 2 ys 8 months, and most other children we know are either trained or well on the way!

2 years
2 years 3 months
2 years 5 months.

I remember it vividly as I timed it to coincide with the school holidays, and DC2 decided to potty train DC3 😆

What worked for these was staying home for 3 days and having lots of fun trying and on day 4 a short trip out and so on.

With two of them I'd tried slightly earlier but they weren't quite there then tried again a few weeks later.

One suddenly did it overnight at 3, she's never had an accident since. The other is coming up 7 and still in nappies.

Mine were potty trained, and then nighttime trained, when it suited them. Mine were both hugely different

Eldest - 6y6m and still isn't dry.
Youngest was 21 months and reliably dry.

About 3.5yrs but now she's statues seeing where she wants as there is a spider in the chill bathroom at 6.5yrs. I promise it'll all be ok. Just give it time. And lots of pull-ups x

She still has a potty in her room at 6 and a half as I don't want her getting confused and falling down the stairs. It'll work out x

Jesus, my spelling!

Ds 2 yrs 9 months but he'd been ready quite a bit before then.

Let's try again, knackered not drunk OP, promise!

bout 3.5yrs but now she's started peeing where she wants as there is a spider in the school bathroom at 6.5yrs. I promise it'll all be ok. Just give it time. And lots of pull-ups x

She still has a potty in her room at 6 and a half as I don't want her getting confused and falling down the stairs. It'll work out x

2.5. They say do it over summer but I wasn't about to do 2 plane trips with a potty training toddler so we did it once we were home. Took about a week to be dry day and night.

Eldest has just turned 2. He just announced he wasn’t going to wear nappies anymore, having been to a friend’s house where the 3 year old was making a show of using a potty.

(I have mentally thanked her many times)

Youngest was 2.5, but 3 before he was dry at night.

3 years exactly and 3 years 5 months (aged 5 now and not yet dry overnight). My children were late developers on this, but hey, everyone gets there in the end (barring medical conditions).

Yeah, right! Of course they did. Rather unprofessional to be commenting on toileting habits of other people’s children.

Just over 3 for the first 2 and 3 and a half for the 3rd one which I did get stressed about. Looking back i wish I hadn't worried so much as it was a total waste of energy. The people that had the kids trained at 2 seemed to spend a lot of time taking them to the toilet whereas once mine were trained they had hardly any accidents or inconvenient toilet visits. Although I do remember one fraught time in an airport with DS1 who needed to go but hated public toilets. I remember going for lunch with my friend who was heavily pregnant and she spent the whole time taking her daughter to the toilet and didn't get to sit down at all. Also re the night time training they were all fully dry by 4 but i was much more relaxed about that and just put them in nappies until they had dry nappies for about a week or so and I have only once had to deal with a wet bed so that worked out well. I've also seen a lot of people who train early dealing with poo withholding and having to put their kids on movicol and it caused a lot of pain and distress. I think the later the better and you get signs they are ready and don't make a big deal out of it. My 3rd child seemed ready but he would hold it all day and become increasingly grumpy so it was not fun and once I put him back in nappies life was easy and fun again. Then he was fully ready once he was 3 and a half but I had been so worried it would never happen. Hope you aren't worried or having any of those people round about you who boast about how early their kids were toilet trained. It really doesn't matter in the long run what age they were.

1 yr 10 months
2 yr 2 months
both were in reusable nappies to that point

Just before his 3rd birthday. We tried 6 months earlier but he was terrified of the toilet and the basic potty's. Got a potty that looked like a mini toilet and was trained within 3 days.

3.5 and was not ready to start before 3.

My DD was 3 pretty much bang on.
She's couldn't be bothered with a potty either, we bought steps for the toilet and one day she just sat on the toilet did a poo and that was it! 😆
I tried at 18 months, and 2, no chance.
It was little effort in the end as when she wanted to do it she just did.
I've heard friends say the same.
Don't worry, there is plenty of time x

I used Sarah Ockwell-Smith's method (which is pretty similar to Oh Crap) when DS was 2.5. He got the hang of weeing in the toilet pretty quickly but for ages he seemed to be waiting for his nighttime nappy to poo.

We tried all kinds of bribery, the Poo Goes To Pooland story, etc. Nothing worked so we just took the pressure off and went with it for a bit. He got there eventually. I think he was 3 years and 2 months when he started reliably pooing in the toilet.

He's 3 years and 7 months now, can't remember the last time he had an accident but he does still wear a nappy at night.

Worked with children 30 years most are near to 36 months some just after go by whether they show signs as listed on NHS website and if they get stressed leave it a bit.

I couldn't agree more. I have two sons and a daughter. My oldest son has quite significant ASD (went to a special school), although we didn't realise at the time and l was horrified at the fact that he was nearly three before getting it. He was then dry simultaneously day and night. My second son was a little over 2 1/2 but was not reliably dry at night until he was 5. My daughter was just over 2. I think she was ready just before her second birthday but we had a long haul flight at this point so l waited until we returned home. She was dry overnight before she was 2 1/2. This was normal in the nineties. A chocolate button or smartie for each successful performance at first, going down to one at the end of the day if there had been no accidents. I think that three or even four is far too late for children with no significant extra needs, especially girls. It must be very expensive too. After three or so they also get stubborn - almost past readiness. The biggest tip l can give you is never to ask them if they need the potty/toilet because they will inevitably say no. You need to take them, telling them it's time for the toilet.

Absolutely no idea, they're 10 and 7 now.

What I would say is that I think we left it "late"(er) which meant it was done and dusted very quickly. We didn't have weeks of carrying spare clothes around or accidents or anything like that - it took maybe three days of being in the house and then they had the hang of it.

IME it's not helpful to compare yourself to others who say their kids were potty trained early as quite often when you ask they're still having frequent accidents - which isn't really fully potty trained, it's just an extreme commitment to doing more laundry for the sake of it!

I hate that book ...I've always used pants. Suggest to parents to have potty about, do nappy free time before a bath, read stories and play putting babies on potty

2 years 9 months - we delayed because we were moving house and he was starting a new nursery. He was probably ready around 2 years and 5 months. Meant he was incredibly fast to train - once he understood we wanted him to pee in the potty, he could do it. Accidents at nursery when he was too busy playing to go to the toilet, but never any at home.

He then night weaned himself at 2 years 10 months - just stopped peeing overnight. We didn’t do anything at all, just noticed his nappies were always dry in the morning. No accidents whatsoever since.

Just over two - first son
3 years 10 months - second son, has mild dyspraxia, had speech therapy, I think that contributed to the challenge but once he was ready it was done in a week.

I think it teaches them to wait until the last minute so they just revert to wetting when dressed and they take no notice of being wet or dirty as can just walk away....parents just like it because of less washing downside is stepping in wet patches or smelly carpet because you missed it.