is my 2 year old too early to be potty trained???

[sammynixon]

Help!!!

potty training is going from bad to worse...

my nearly 2 year old was playing without her nappy on. i kept asking her if she needed the potty and she kept saying no.

a little while later i heard her shout DIRTY.. i went into the hall way to see what had happened and she had had a poo in the corner of the hall way...

that was fine - easy to sort out but she had decided to wipe it into the carpet and all up the walls... yuk!

am i starting too early?? is she not quite ready??

I really wouldn't get hung up on age when it comes to potty training. My DD was potty trained at 18 months - largely due to having a Grannie who said "of course she's ready all my 3 children were potted trained before 2 years" and helped out no end. However I suspect DS will be a different kettle of fish..... Just keep trying now and then, and don't get stressed - if you are stressed stop, have a break and return to the topic once you are both feeling more ready.

hi vesela

when she spills something she tells me that it is dirty and asks me to clean it up. she will sometimes try herslf but more offen than not i will do it.

that's supposed to be one of the classic signs of readiness, isn't it. Maybe the smearing the poo around was just because of the novelty, then.

I know that when DD was potty-training she had to kind of get to know what her poo looked like. Which in her case didn't involve playing with it, luckily, but just sort of staring long and hard at it.

DD woke up one morning and announced she wasn't wearing a nappy any more. We ran out and bought a potty and ran with her statement. She was 24mths old then, 3 days later she was dry in the day, a month later she was dry at night. She's had maybe 3 accidents in the 2yrs she's been trained.

If she is ready, run with it. We just put DD into pants...had to buy those along with the potty- we were so unprepared! We gave her a sticker for every wee and 2 for a poo in the potty. I stayed in the house for 3 days with her and that was it.

Go for it! If it doesn't work after 5 or so days, give up completely for a few months and then try againl

My eldest was potty trained (daytime) at 19 months, but it took another 6 months until she cracked nighttime.
Her sister tried at 22 months and within 1 week had both day and night time cracked.

we found staying at home for 3 days and mopping up puddles etc worked for us. But it also shows how different even sisters can be (and both wore real nappies - does that make any difference? I don't know)

Recommendation: I agree with usernametaken to give it a go, and if it looks hopeless, leave it a while, then try again.

best of luck
p,s don't bother with training pants, but get some "buppy pads" - absorbant pads for car seats & buggies

That's what I thought - it's worth giving it a go now, just in case it's harder later, and if it doesn't work out then I can always try again later. But it did work out, luckily.

And then a month later she turned two and suddenly became a full-blown two-year-old and much more contrary, so it was definitely worth having gone for it early.