Should I start potty training my son?

[FrenchLiza]

First time mum and just looking for a bit of reassurance? I am feeling nervous / daunted about starting potty training but I read the "Oh Crap" book and the writer is convinced 22-26 months is the ideal time, and seems to make sense. My son is just turned 24 months. He does do all the things she talks about like go to the corner to poo etc.

We are TTC so would like to get this done sooner rather than later. We have a few day trips panned in early July though so I'm thinking we wait till start of August when we have no plans?

Also he is moving up to a new nursery room in August or September (they haven't confirmed) so is this a bad idea? The thing is there always seems to be a reason to delay - day trips, nursery rooms, molar teeth, holiday plans etc etc.

Give it a go, if he's not getting it then try again later? Also don't stick to one method of you don't feel it's working. Everyone told us bare bums was the only way to do it, that failed twice and in the end wearing pull ups had her trained in two days.

Hi! A physiotherapist who does bowel and pelvic stuff told me that kids being physiologically ready to “hold it in” correlates with when they can walk down stairs without holding a rail (and without falling down obviously!)
Mine is 2 and a half and we’ve been doing the potty for a couple of months now but still using nappies. I saw him do the stair thing this morning which is the signal for us to try taking off the nappy (on holiday in a couple of weeks so we’ll do it then with no pants on for a few days!)

@anotherscroller - really?
ds is 25 months, and we just started potty training last week. Going well so far. However, he’s been walking up and down stairs easily for almost a year? He definitely wouldn’t have been ready to potty train at 14/15 months.

fyi if it’s any help, we have used the ‘pure bribery route’. Chocolate very time he sits on loo, even if he didn’t go. Very few accidents.

The stairs thing is an interesting theory but my dd is the opposite of @Caspianberg dd is potty trained but still can't walk up/down stairs very well, and couldn't at all before hand.
I'm not sure it has much to do with it.

Ah well!

Due to partly my laziness and also reasons to delay (holidays, etc) my DS was in nappies at 2yrs 9months. I wasn't in a rush but was planning on trying before he was 3. But he just started asking to go to the toilet quite often and after a week of this stopped using nappies and went to pants. Had a few accidents but completely dry in day after a week and no accidents since 3 months down line. I'm glad I waited as it was stress free but probably just lucky that it worked out like that.

Summer time is perfect! I’d start as soon as you have time you can be at home for the first few days. We did it at 21/22 months for my daughter as we were expecting our second. I’m more nervous to start this time with my son as he’s a bit less verbal but I think we will go for it over the summer holidays at a similar age! Lots of half naked garden time I think. 😂 My tip is for the first few days get that decorator’s sticky back carpet cover if you have any carpet!

My son was 3 when we started, we tried to start sooner but he was clearly not ready. The preschool really helped us learn the ropes and even made us sticker charts. We did a countdown of nappies which really helped him as he was reluctant to give them up. He had different ones at night so he knew there were no daytime ones left. When it came to nighttime training I used to get him up before we went to bed and sometimes in the night, he did really well.
Just buy lots of spare trousers and let them chose their pants!

Yes definitely. I used that book to train dd at 21 months. I can’t understand why people wait til 3/3.5 nowadays. Dealing with nappies is horrible and it’s easier to get it done younger. Plus it’s summer so easy to have dc wandering about with nothing much on while training.