How old was your toddler when potty trained??

[Louisa111]

My dd1 is 2y 8 months and just doesn't want to know. I've tried everything I can think of. Will happily sit on potty with a nappy/ trousers on and the same in the toilet but has no interest when the nappy comes off.
She knows exactly what to do, we've watched videos, she sits her baby dolly on the potty and pretend she's done a wee and wipes her, tells her well done so she knows but I just can't get her to do it.
Shall I just wait until she's ready, just getting worried as she's nearly 3 and we are still no closer to cracking it

3yrs, 3mths. We waited until the xmas week when both dh and I were home. It went fine, with no accidents.

My two DDs were 2 years 3 months and DS 2 years 8 months.

All of mine have been 3 years two months. My mum gave me hell about training them earlier but two have severe autism so I didn't want to push it. Youngest is non verbal and mostly uses the potty at home though uses the loo at preschool. Don't rush it. Cleaning up random accidents is not fun.

Failed attempts at 2.6 for both dcs. So just let them wear pull ups and use the toilet / potty when they wanted for a few months.

Official potty training (big pants, at home for a few days) was
DS - 3.1
DD - 3.4 .

Both done over Xmas when I had time off work. Only a couple of accidents in the first few days back at nursery in the new year. Both naturally dry at night by early summer. Definitely worth waiting and not pushing it.

I started ds on his 2nd birthday and he was trained within a week.

DD1 was 23 months, DS1 was 27 months DS2 was 20 months. They were old enough to show interest but young enough to want to please. DD1 was sorted in a week, boys took about three weeks.

Four of ours were dry in the day at around 3.6, give or take a month or two, though I would put them in a nappy or padded trainer pants for a nap or a long car journey until nearly 4. DD2 was dry in the day at 33 months but regressed badly and nearly 5 when DS3 was born. One of them was out of night nappies at 4.8 but the others have all needed them until at least 6. DD2 until over 7 and DS3 shows no signs of becoming dry at night at 5.9.
Some people believe that cloth nappies help potty training but they did not in our case - they simply saved us a lot of money!

My 1st son started on his 2nd birthday and was using the big toilet within a week. He has also been dry at night 3 weeks after we started.... no accidents at all. Highly recommend Gina Ford potty training in 7 days book.... some really good tips in there. I also used rewards of raisins and sticker chart which he loved. Hope your little one gets there soon

DS1 3rd birthday, just clicked day and night. Lulled me into thinking it was all a piece of cake.

DS2 5yo was more or less Ok but still regressed when out of normal routine until 7yo. No special needs, but a very stubborn streak and need for control.

2 years bang on, but only from Gina ford potty training in one week. I just followed it step by step, was nothing to do with me!

2.3.

I encouraged him to use the potty throughout the day from 2 years old. From 2.2 I used to take him to the toilet every time I went. Sat him on the potty each time and put on a new nappy if the old one was wet. After a week or 2 I noticed he was keeping his nappy dry all day. At 2.3 we had a big heatwave and he wanted to be naked so I let him and he took himself to the toilet quite happily from then on. I think it helped that it was a gradual process and he didn't feel forced into it.

I agree there's no rush though. Something will just click one day and she'll get it.

Dd 2.5, at that point in time (2001) nursery wouldn't accept a child unless toilet trained.

Ds, a far more recent experience, 22 months (in the day), he wanted to use the potty and it was early summer. He was already using the potty at bath time. He hated being wet (cloth). Never used pull ups, straight to pants. I take no credit, dh did it all (sahd).

Dry at night 2.10 although I was very nervous of removing the nappy. Ds told us he didn't want a nappy and Yet again dh had faith.

A week after his 2nd birthday. Poos took a bit longer as he has constipation but only took 2-3 days to be dry in and out of the house

DD1 - 2 years 1 month, took 3 days and she was clean and dry both day and night

DD2 - 2 years 1 month, took 4 days and she was clean and dry in the daytime but it took another 18 months for night time

DD3 - 19 months, took 2 days and she was clean and dry both day and night

I took a week off work each time, went cold turkey and used smarties. They rarely had accidents once they were trained.

My twins were really ready and toilet trained (we didnt use a potty) quickly. After day 3 they were reliably dry with no accidents. They were 2.8

Between 2.5 and 3 like completely no accidents no bedtime wetting all over a few days for eldest and a few weeks for the youngest. If you try and do it when they're just not ready or too early it's no good for their confidence and accidents will happen

2yr 9months. Left it until she was so ready she pretty much took her nappy off herself. She was dry in a day. 6 months on and we have regressed slightly and often get a dribble in her pants as she leaves going till

the last minute. No rush, don't stress. Try again in a couple of months x

Before 2. Trained by 2nd birthday. We'd just remind him now and then until he was very confident.

I know I'll be flamed but I do find this waiting until they're 3.5, 4, + if there's no medical reason or development issue quite odd. I really understand that I was very lucky that ds just started himself. But I spent a solid week with him and a potty doing a dance everytime he went in the potty and was lucky to have the time to devote. Waiting until they're 4 and the like, must be awful having to deal with nappies. Why are people so reluctant to start them? I did the 3day technique. I know people who have children in nappies still who say 'oh they're not ready' or 'not showing signs'. Will they just wait until 5, 6, 7?

3y 2m. We tried for ages and he just wouldn't get it. Had the home visit for starting nursery in the September a week or two before he turned 3 and they pressed that we should try to get it done but no luck. We gave up trying because it just seemed to be causing a lot of stress and then one day over Christmas DH said "Do you want to try for a wee on the toilet?" and DS said yes and he never looked back, at least for wees anyway! Lucky because he was due to start nursery in the January.

They really are ready when they are ready.

Bush same question - what would you have done if it didn't work? You spent a week but would you have continued the same thing for two, three, six weeks? DS wouldn't even sit on a potty. If I did get him to sit on it very, very rarely he wouldn't do anything in it. Eventually we managed to tempt him with "aiming at cheerios in the toilet" but even that needed a lot of bribery.

I can't answer that because I was lucky. Very lucky.
I do just find parents who don't even try until the child looks ready a mystery to me. If I had got to 2.5 I would have tried regardless of whether he looked ready. If he'd struggled then would have stopped or tried something different. I just think waiting until 3.5 or later without trying is in some respects lazy. It's a pain potty training but surely getting a child out of landfill nappies is a better solution. It's interesting how times have changed. I was trained at 18mths with cloth nappies. Do you think that's the reason why it was sooner.

Like I said I was extremely lucky.

3.5 for all 3 DCs (dry and clean all day and night since). Took a few days. Anyone who says different is fibbing

Tried at 3.3 for three very stressful days.
Tried again at 3.5 and was trained with a couple of days. Once the nappy came off on the first day, she refused to put it on at bedtime and never had a night accident.

I'd recommend waiting!!!!

2 years 5 months. She decided herself when she no longer wanted to wear nappies...a week after her little sister was born. Her timing was awful but it worked pretty well and I think it's because she chose to do it, we didn't push her.