To ask when did you potty train? And…

[Ppehl]

how do you do it if you work full time and child is in nursery full time?

All these people taking time off work are hilarious. It really does not need to be that complicated or dramatic. The closer to 3 that they are the less fuss, so the research says, and with experience it is larger true.

I never pushed it, mine are 15 months apart and we're both potty trained around the same time, DS was just over 3 and DD just shy of two.

They made their own minds up so it just happened overnight. We also never had a potty, just those baby bjorn loo seats

23 months is early whats the rush?

DD was about 2.5 and it was at her instigation (seeing other kids at nursery potty training). Nursery just told us to bring a few extra changes of clothes for the first few days and they took the lead. Because she was ready she only had a couple of accidents in the first couple of days, one accident on day 3 and none after that.

If they're ready (and been doing a bit of practicing - DD had been sitting on the potty at nappy changes for a couple of weeks at home and nursery) then very little actual "training" should be needed.

We trained at 33 months and did it over a 3 day weekend. We'd had a few unsuccessful attempts before so he had a good understanding already and this time it just clicked. If he was full time at nursery we'd have waited for a bank holiday weekend or taken some leave on a normal week to do it.

26 and 23 months, both got the hang of it really quickly and we also used the oh crap method. We just stayed at home for a week and then went out for short trips and then longer trips with a travel potty.

I'm a SAHM but if I wasn't I would have taken annual leave to take a bit of the time pressure off.

Did it over the Easter break (4 days). Still has odd accidents at nursery, but it’s not a big deal.
boys were 2 and 2/3 months.
(I was off work when dd trained and she was only just 2)

Around about their 2nd birthday for each of mine.
Mine were at Childminders who supported what we started at the weekend. We'd discussed it with them before, obviously.

Both about 2.5, started at the weekend and nursery continued. Nursery did a great job and they were both trained in 3-4 days. Lots of washing came home for a couple of days, but after that no accidents😊

Can I jump on to ask if the 'oh crap' book includes an option for just using a toilet rather than potties? My DC picks them up and I'd prefer to go straight to using a loo

Why is it hilarious for parents to take time off to support their children during quite a big change?

You’re wrong on the research too, Eric the children’s bowel and bladder charity say the research all points to it being better for children’s long term health to be out of nappies between 18-30 months.

Yes I was. And I said further on in my post that if I'd been working I'd have taken a week off. Did you read that far?

And then you contradict yourself by being supportive about taking time off work for this. I think we're actually on the same page.

And I agree about toilet training between 18 months and 30 months too. Mainly because a toddler that age is generally eager to please, whereas they can get more oppositional and stubborn when they're a bit older. I haven't heard of the Eric research.

At just over 2. It’s left too late nowadays IMO

Oh Crap method. One week before DS was 30 months (as Oh Crap says do it 20-30 months).

Bush bash bosh, cracked it in the daytime mostly within four days and completely within about ten days. Accidents v rare. Just felt the method worked well for us and, having sleep trained, we're used to agreeing an approach and sticking to it, being consistent, supporting each other.

So all good. If only getting him to eat veg was as easy for us!

Ds is 2 years 2 months and he’s interested in the potty and asked for a wee or to poo on it a few times (so gets the concept) but so far hasn’t done anything on it.

I’m hoping to do it around 2.5 based on what he’s showing me now but having worked with continence nurses there’s no point trying it before they show you they’re absolutely ready! Also they say it’s much quicker (long weekend) if you start once they’re clearly ready e.g. telling you before they wee!

We both work full time. DD started getting interested in the potty when she was about 18 months, because bigger children at the childminder were learning to use it. We bought one and she just played with it at that stage. Then when she was 25 months we visited my goddaughter (who is five) who still had potties around the place and DD sat on it and did a wee. She did this a few times (more by luck than judgment) but didn't really get it so we didn't push it.

Then when she was 27 months she woke up, announced she wanted to wear knickers (we'd bought some for her), sat on the potty, did a wee and that was it. That was on a Saturday morning. She had a couple of accidents over the weekend but was pretty reliably dry by about day 3. We sent her off to the childminder on the Monday with a potty and spare clothes and she did really well. It took her a few weeks to get the hang of poos as she got scared. We bought books about poo ("Everybody poos", "I Really Really Really Need a Poo!") and downloaded Poo goes to Pooland on my phone. Again, once she got the concept she was fine.

Started a v v slow approach just after DS second birthday, skipped the potty entirely and just got a child seat for the toilets in our house and a little foldable seat for out of the house.
We let him lead the way and nursery did the same, didn’t push him to use it but let him know it was available and he just sort of did it himself over time. He was fully out of daytime nappies a few months later so around 2 years 3 months.
He was in nursery 3 days a week.
He’s now 3.5 and has just decided he doesn’t want nighttime nappies so we are totally nappy free now.

We trained at 22 months after reading the book "oh crap" - take a bit of annual leave once you have read the book and off you go 😁 - it took 5 days.

When I say 5 days, that was 5 days back in clothes and going the loo himself completely reliable. He stopped having accidents in the house after 1.5 days, then we Introduced with jiggers on then trips out.

2 years 3m for my daughter 2 years 6 months for my son (he's still 2)
Daughter practically did it herself, hadn't pooed in a nappy since 18m, we bought a little potty that looked like a toilet and she'd poo next to her dad on the big toilet 😂 at Christmas just took her nappys off and she was toilet trained in a week incl over night. Left a potty in the room

Son we tried earlier in the year and he was fine in the house but wasn't ready at the childminders (also work full time) we did it last month while on holiday he won't use a potty so straight to the seat on the toilet - he has had the odd accident but not many. No nappies on outings other than a soft play a few weeks ago.
He's still in a pull up over night which I really should take off him (he's dry) but I'm pregnant and tired so lazy on my part.
Spiderman boxer shorts are a big win with my son, loves his big boy pants

23 months, long Easter weekend. Was amazing to be done with day time nappies.

Take holiday if there's no convenient bank holidays.

We did it at 2 year 9 months. Started on day 1 of a 4 day long weekend and then when he was in nursery explained the rewards scheme we were using and had them continue with that for the first week.
the first 4 weeks involved a lot of accidents so we supplied a lot of extra spare clothes to nursery and ran the washing machine a lot but then it suddenly clicked.

Placemarking * my daughter is nearly 3, I need to get her trained this summer before she starts nursery in September :/

We did it over a bank holiday weekend just before DS turned 2.

He picked it up straight away. He never used a potty as he preferred using a child seat on the toilet.

After that one long weekend we never had a single accident. I was amazed and I suspect very fortunate it was that straightforward.