When to begin potty training?

[Anonymous]

Asking here instead of google to hear real life perspectives. My kid is 15 1/2 mths.

[Anonymous]

We waited until the 3rd birthday with ds and with dd. Went really fast.

[Anonymous]

22 months, but with zero expectations

[Anonymous]

I wanted to start at 18 months b/c my kid got bad diaper rash but daycare didn’t support it. Easily trained at 25 months.

[Anonymous]

Depends on your kid. I started my older DD at 22 months, two years later we're still not there. Training my 28th month old DS this weekend and I expect to be done by tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

I started at 2.5 with my daughter. She would stay dry during naps and very long car drives. It took about 5 days and a few accidents. She no longer needed diapers at night either.

[Anonymous]

I tried at 22 months with my son and it went poorly, although he did gain a lot of bodily awareness I think! We mostly shelved it before trying again at 27 months, and then it went quite well! He was mostly trained within days although he had a lot of tantrums the next 2 months when asked to go potty. Full disclosure though he’s almost 3 now and still has difficulty manipulating his own clothes, although he’s recently made a lot of progress. So, all in all I’m pleased with starting at 27 months.

Will see how things go with our daughter but I’d love to try around 26 months with her, as it will be summer then. We trained my son in Midwest winter and it was tough with snow pants, etc.

[Anonymous]

Now.

Around 12 months, you should be familiarizing your kid with the potty and letting them spend a little time on it. Let them see you go pee in the big potty at the same time.

[Anonymous]

When they reach the "everything myself" stage. At least thats what worked for my girls. Prob right about 2.5. We didnt do naked days. Just went to thick training underwear. I stuck the potty in the bathroom. They would see me go pee. Id offer them to sit on the little or big toilet, with or without underpants on. Just for fun. They expressed a ton of interest. Once they peed into it once we just kept going. A big party etc. also times it to when they were staying dry during naps and i noticed they would pee into diapers only about every 2 hrs or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now.

Around 12 months, you should be familiarizing your kid with the potty and letting them spend a little time on it. Let them see you go pee in the big potty at the same time.

Yes. Pretty much mom or dad having no toilet privacy helps. Removes the mystery of what happens on the toilet and speeds up training for us. My 2.5 year old trained in a couple weeks. Minimal accidents throughout. She just wanted to go into a toilet snd flush herself and all.

[Anonymous]

It’s more about readiness signs than age:

pull pants up and down independently
Recognizes when wet
Can stay dry 1-2 hours
Can get on and off toilet themselves- use training toilet for younger kids.

Shows interest is helpful but not necessary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We waited until the 3rd birthday with ds and with dd. Went really fast.

This. 3 years of age is around the average now and was easy for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now.

Around 12 months, you should be familiarizing your kid with the potty and letting them spend a little time on it. Let them see you go pee in the big potty at the same time.

100% wrong.

[Anonymous]

You can start EC as early as you want and progress to toilet when they’re ready.

https://realdiapers.org/elimination-communication/

[Anonymous]

Anytime you want to.