Development emails from Bounty- 16mth old -aiming to be dry at night??

[pigleychez]

Just recieved an email from Bounty with developmental updates.

DD is 16mth olds and the email talks about how keeping dry at night is harder than during the day. Imlying they are already dry through the day!-Potty Training??
Am I begin slow with DD or something!? I was under the impression to start around 2, looking for signs shes ready.
DD does sit on a potty for a few secs but mostly uses it as a toy. I dont expect her to actually use it! She sometimes tells me when shes doing a poo but I wouldnt say she is ready at all.

Having A child development qualification and working in Nurseries for 10 years. Ive never known a child this young potty trained.

Anyone else think Bounty are being rather optomistic!!?

By 18mths my DC were both dry at night

They were also reading by 20mths and got to grips with algebra by their second birthdays.

What a bunch of arse! (ho ho). Bounty are nutters.

OMG what utter shite!

bizarrely, DS1 was dry at night from about 14 months (although we kept him in a nappy obviously!) It took another 3 years for him to be consistently dry in the day I think night time dryness is a hormonal thing

lol ruby - doing your own laundry. Now there's a milestone worth attaining (not yet achieved by all adult members of the ace household...)

They are barking nutters. I told my DSs that it was against the law to wear nappies during the day once you'd turned 3, and from their third birthdays onwards they were dry. I didn't even try before then.

But I assume you know that by 16 months children should be able to write their full name and address? In joined-up writing? I thought I'd better check.

All development emails (including the ones from MN) need to be taken with a large pinch of salt. Ds was dry during the day at 3.5 and dry at night at 4.5. I figured that I only needed to be worried if he was still wearing nappies at night when he was 7 (when the paediatrician would have taken an interest).

Of course ds could do calculus and speak Latin fluently at 8 months but then doesn't everyone?