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average ages you potty trained yours?

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prefernot · 15/11/2004 10:45

I think dd may be 'ready' for a go at potty training. She's 2 and 1 month and asks me to change her nappy often after each wee and has done 2 poos in a potty and seems relatively keen to sit on it for short periods of time. I'd thought I'd wait until she was closer to 2.5 as that seems the average age of people I know.

What do you guys think?

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blossomhill · 15/11/2004 10:46

2.5 - 3yrs

throckenholt · 15/11/2004 10:48

just as he turned 3. Know quite a few girls who did it younger. DS3 is now 22 months and reliably tells me when he has done a poo (or even doing one) - so can't see him going another year before being trained.

Give it a go - if it doesn't work easily wait for a while.

fio2 · 15/11/2004 10:51

2.5-3yrs also

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Clayhead · 15/11/2004 10:52

2.1 for dd

Angeliz · 15/11/2004 10:53

dd was potty trained just before her second birthday. (She went straight onto big toilet though as she'd disowned the potty and was generally used as a hat )

WigWamBam · 15/11/2004 11:16

My dd wasn't ready to use a potty until she was 2 years 8 months - although she's 3.5 now and still won't poo in anything other than a nappy ...

charliecat · 15/11/2004 11:17

2.5-3.5

charliecat · 15/11/2004 11:19

But if you feel shes ready go for it, mine ran round ruddey nudey doing wees in the potty from when they could walk...it was getting them to not pee through knickers to go outside when I decided we would drop the nappys for good that baffled me and my dds!

LIZS · 15/11/2004 11:31

2.8 - 3 , but dd was fully aware of her going at 1.10 but just couldn't get the hang of it and got upset over accidents so we left it until the following spring (with a few futile attempts in between).

KateandtheGirls · 15/11/2004 11:46

DD1 was nearly 4. DD2 is 2.8 and we're struggling with it right now.

elliott · 15/11/2004 11:52

When ds1 was your dd's age he would sit on the potty regularly and do most of his poos on it, but did not seem to have any awareness of wees. I started potty training at 2 and 5 months - it wasn't too bad, though we did have our share of accidents and traumas over it. He is virtually completely reliable now (nearly 3) but still has a tendency to hold on to the last minute (or beyond!)
I found it really quite hard to judge 'readyness' - if anything I think maybe I was too impatient and it might have been easier doing it later, even though objectively we didn't have a lot of accidents. Maybe I just had too high expectations

msann · 15/11/2004 12:31

dd1 potty trained by 16 - 18 mnths....dd2 also around that time....although b4 u all think im bragging it was out of necessity as i couldnt afford the nappies!!!!

listmaker · 15/11/2004 12:33

My older dd was 2 years and 2 months and was behaving like your's prefernot. I thought she was too young and I had a new baby and wanted to put it off but I bought her some pants, she put them on and was done in a week with ver few accidents.

dd2 showed great interest too and used the potty for poos so she was done in a few days at 21 months.

I reckon if they are aware of what they are doing and have pooed in a potty then go for it because they are ready and when they are ready it's easy.

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prefernot · 15/11/2004 12:45

Thanks everyone. This is very helpful. I may give it a go at the end of this week then. I'm slightly worried that she seems to have no conception of doing a wee in the potty though ...

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collision · 15/11/2004 12:53

Just make it fun and dont freak out if she does it on the floor! DS was 2.1yrs and did it very quickly. I wasnt sure about night time but once they have bladder control then it is easy to go for night time as well.

hana · 15/11/2004 13:03

dd was 2.6
still in nappies at night at 3

Lonelymum · 15/11/2004 13:04

Go for it if you think she is ready. You can always stop again if it all gets too much.

iota · 15/11/2004 13:12

2.3 and 2.4 for my 2 boys - but IME girls are often ready younger.

I think that there is an optimum time when they show interest and are ready to go for it - do it too young and it can drag on for ages, leave it too late and they can decide not to co-operate and it can become a power struggle. Catch them at the right time and it's quick and easy ( mine were both sorted in a few days). I think mine were also easy to do as they were in day nursey and copied all the other children as the nursery was lucky enough to have 'en suite' toilet and potty room. Lucky me

Gingerbear · 15/11/2004 13:20

DD is 2.4, and it is going so-so. Having problems when she is so busy, she forgets to ask for her potty and we end up with wees (see last weeks thread about wee in patent leather kickers)

What does everyone do when you are out for the day. I can only just about cope with the changes in clothing at home. We revert back to nappies when out and about.

blueteddy · 15/11/2004 13:25

Ds1 was 6 weeks away from his 3rd birthday by the time he was dry in the day time.
He is now 5 & still not dry at night!

Gobbledigook · 15/11/2004 13:25

Only 'done' one ds so far and he was 2yrs 9m.

He still didn't seem that ready to me then but it was new year and dh was still off work so thought it would be as good a time as any. Lots of friends did theirs earlier but it took ages and they still have accidents now (all now 3.5). DS cracked it in around 4-5 days and we've never looked back - although not dry at night yet. Waiting till we've moved house to tackle that one!

oxocube · 15/11/2004 13:30

2yrs for ds1 and about 2.7 for dd and ds#2, day and night.

Nikkichik · 15/11/2004 14:11

Started with dd just after her 2nd bday in Feb - but no pressure. Just left the potty beside the loo and suggested she might like to sit on it when I went for a wee and before she got in the bath. She actually did her first wee on the potty on my birthday in April (the only memorable thing about the day!) and went in fits and starts from then on. I kind of just followed her lead and encouraged her and gave her stars when she did anything. However was still wearing pull-ups. Didn't put her in 'big girls pants' til August/September time when she went up a group at nursery. I think it's helped enourmously that all her friends are doing it too. She's now 2.9 and pretty much there during the day - she trots off and sits on her potty without any reminding now. Am not brave enough to do without a 'pull-up' at night yet! However, she has just started getting up in the night by herself and using the potty so maybe she's ready! For long trips out or days out, she's still in a pull-up but does ask to go (mad dash to the nearest loo) and doesn't seem to want to go in her nappy! - or she seems to be able to hold on till we get home and does a 'big daddy wee'!! The main thing is not to push it.

lydialemon · 15/11/2004 14:18

Only DSs who I understand tend to be later than DDs, but they were DS1 - 2 and 7mths, and DS2 2 and 11mths.

Demented · 15/11/2004 14:23

DS1, 2.7 and DS2 2.5 (been potty training successfully 10 days now). It certainly sounds like she is interested and I personally don't see anything wrong with giving it a try, my DS1 had one try before finally cracking it and my DS2 has had two tries. Try not too make too big a fuss (unless it is going well) and if it doesn't work out put the nappies back on, if nothing else it lets them think about the general idea.

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