How long did it take to get it?

[sunflower198]

Realistically, how long did it take your child to potty train?

Following a potty training 7 day guide but on day 5 and we are still only maybe achieving day 2.

I feel like the guide is unrealistic and setting my goals too high, but then, I keep reading that it is easy when a child is ready?!

However this week has been extremely tough and tiring for us all so maybe he just isn't ready.

How old is he.?

Total disaster when we tried potty training my son at 2.5, but when we tried again 3 months later, he pretty much got it straightaway. It doesn't need to be a stressful battle, but it will be inevitably if the child is not ready.

He's nearly 27 months.
He had been showing all the signs so we cleared a week but now I'm not so sure he's ready.
He has been ok doing wees and poos on potty when he is naked from waist down (he doesn't tell us he needs to go, he just goes and sits on the potty 99% of the time) - but trying to introduce pants/trousers and he's just weeing everywhere.
Torn between clearing another week to keep him naked and see if it helps, or just putting it on hold for a while as it Seems backwards to put him back into nappies!

Ds was almost 3 and was dry day and night in 3 days with only a couple of accidents.

My 2 year old took 1 week to stop having frequent accidents and now 3 weeks in they haven't had an accident for a week now and it really seems to have clicked and they are initiating it themselves etc. So I'd give it a few weeks. We have only this week started giving pants as they can feel similar to a nappy at the start.

Dd1 was just over 2 and she took 3 days to be dry of a day but wet the bed fairly regularly until she was 7. Dd2 was 18 months and took nearly 2 weeks to train (I was bored in lockdown 1 thats why I persevered) but has been dry at night as well since 20m. My niece (who is cleverer than either of my kids) is still in nappies at 3.5 because its become a power struggle and shes got more stamina than her mum. Shes been potty training on and off for well over a year now

Thanks all!
We decided to wait a while longer and then restart - he was getting upset by it all.
Hopefully next time will be easier 🤞🏻