What age did you potty train your little one?

[marne]

My dd loves sitting on her potty, she doesnt know what its for yet as i think she is too young for potty training, shes 16 months old. Is it too early to start?
What age did you potty train your toddler(s)

I still say do it when they are ready! We all seem in such a huge rush to push our kids on. Why. Blink and they will be grown up. I dont work so I have whatever time it takes, but really can not understand why I should make a huge fuss about potties etc. Its there if he wants it!

Edam you know when they are ready when they seem interested in having dry pants on and can do a wee in the potty and they start to ask for potty, some children do this and others don't. The good thing about not using the potty but going straight to the toilet is that when you are out and about they can use toilets. My sis had to take a portable potty everywhere as my nephew hated using the toilet. But they are all different and you will just know when your child is ready. I knew and was lead by ds and I'm hoping dd will do the same.

well, he wants to flush the loo, and is jolly interested in it, so maybe I'll give the child loo seat thing a go...

I want one of those double loo seat things, have you seen them as I think those you put on are a bit scary as they can slip!!!!

www.toysrus.co.uk/Product.aspx/BruHome/BruBathingChanging/BruBathingChangingPottyToiletTrain/210544

Bit like this but I think you can get them all in one!!!

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i don't really understand the urgency to potty train. Apart from the savings you make on nappies I can't see any other advantages. When I tried to train my DS at 2.5 yrs I was spending more money on carpet cleaner than I was saving by not buying nappies.

And it's not true that all children are ready by 2.5 yrs. My son was physically ready but did not really understand what I was expecting him to do. He would use the potty if he was naked but didn't unederstand the difference between pants and nappies, and no amount of explaning from me was getting through to him.

If I had another child unless they were showing very strong signals that they were readyto train I wouldn't even contemplate starting until they were 3 yrs old.

I think its really important to potty train when they want to not you! I was lucky my dd was keen to do wees and poos and let everyone know about it. When she did one we made a huge fuss, lots of praise about the fabulous wees she had done. I also think when you decide to really go for it about 2 weeks of going on the potty every morning after getting up, that you take off the nappy and don't put it on until bedtime, even if you go out. Ofcourse there will be accidents but we didn't have many and I was always prepared and we never made a fuss about it.

My dd got it within a month easily and she was just under 2.5 years

I bought a potty when DD was 8 months because I was sick of seeing she was about to wee/poo when she had her nappy off and then cleaning up. Now we pop her on it first thing in the morning and after meals. She almost always wees as soon as she sits down (she refuses to sit if she doesn't need to go) and we almost never have to deal with dirty nappies. Of course, it might all go pear-shaped when she gets a bit older (11 months now) and there's a big difference between using the potty and not going in her nappy, but we've enjoyed these easy months.

Sorry loulabelle222 but I disagree with you. I tried DD1 at 25 months for 1 week and had a week from hell, she would only wee once a day and then hid under the table to do it and only pooed once in the entire week. By then she was so constipated I had to give her medicine to soften it all up. Tried again about 3 months later and had a similar thing happen, she used to go to bed (with a nappy on) and wake up screaming for her nappy. On the advice of the health visitor I have now left it alone (she is 3 in August) and will give it 6 months or so, hopefully will be led by her. Apparently its quite damaging for her to hold everything for a long period of time. I was totally surprised at what an awful time we had. But gave up as I want my happy daughter back again. I just dont know what will happen if she shows no signs in 6 months. She can obviously hold things, I could send her out all day in pants and know she wont have an accident, its just trying to get her to use a potty/toilet.

Loulabelle,

Am I right in thinking you got just the one child at the moment aged 14/15 months-ish?

Answering the question, dd potty trained at 2 yrs 5 months. She was ready at that point and cracked it within 48 hours.

I was eavesdropping at the swimming pool where a mother with a 22 month yr old was doing it and said she had been trying for a while now and he was starting getting the hang of it. She then said he can't actually speak to tll her when he wants to go so that makes a bit difficult! bizarre! Why push it?

Quite!

Yeah have to agree not all children are ready for training at 2 and half years old! Some are some aren't! Some show signs at 18months they want to do a wee wee in a potty some put it on their head like a hat! We must all be lead by our children which happens in the majority of parenting. I haven't actually heard of anyone pushing potty training! I have been lucky with my ds and I'm hoping this will be the same with dd, and if it isn't we will postpone till the time is right. Also in my area the local anti-preschool Nursery won't take a 3yr old still in nappies. So I can understand the need of maybe trying to have a child trained by this stage but certainly would never force it.

think we are almost all in agreement heare...WAIT. Your child will know. might be 18months might be 2.5 mught be 4 but how many go to schhol in nappies.. For goodness sake mums, life is as hard as you make it!!!!