This is how I potty “trained”. Anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Since maybe 18 mos or so, I turn on the shower and while it’s heating up I put DS on the toilet (no kid seat he just perched on the regular seat). One day, shortly before he turned three, he peed while sitting there. I gave him a ton of praise and then we just used the bathroom like every hour for a few days. Anyway I thought it was a good thing to get him used to sitting on it early on. Wonder why this is not a common practice or it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since maybe 18 mos or so, I turn on the shower and while it’s heating up I put DS on the toilet (no kid seat he just perched on the regular seat). One day, shortly before he turned three, he peed while sitting there. I gave him a ton of praise and then we just used the bathroom like every hour for a few days. Anyway I thought it was a good thing to get him used to sitting on it early on. Wonder why this is not a common practice or it?

For me personally, not common because I worry about kid falling off the seat and hitting tile.

My mom had us trained to pee on command from about 1-1.5 years old. She would say "pssss" and we'd go. Started early, don't know how. This saved her much trouble of having to hand wash cloth diapers.

[Anonymous]

That sounds really annoying and time consuming, to be honest. Fab that it worked for your kid but mine would never sit still for that.

[Anonymous]

My mom supported me in the early years of parenthood and she trained my kids very early. Basically making the “shhhhhhh” sound that resembled water falling and my kids would go on demand. Also, timing the bathroom breaks pretty often (on getting up from sleep, going for a walk, before bedtime etc).

We had the baby portable potties in various places in the house (playroom, bedroom, basement, yard) and my kids could pee when ever and wherever they needed to pee and never have an accident.

As for poop training, I basically got them in the habit of drinking a warm cup of milk as soon as they were up in the morning and make them sit on the potty till they pooped. Of course, I sat with them too and read books etc to them so they did not get bored. The volume of warm milk in their tummy helped them to poop. Later, their system got trained to poop at certain times in the morning. This was very helpful when they started daycare because they were never physically uncomfortable or needed to poop in the daycare or school bathroom.

[Anonymous]

My kids would have fallen in the potty at 18 months without a kid seat and I didn’t have a nanny like PPs.

[Anonymous]

I put my son on the toilet (with insert seat so he didn’t fall in) in the morning when he usually pooped every morning starting when he was around 15 months old. He’s nearly two now and pretty good about using the potty if I take him very often and he’s in a good mood. No sense that he needs to go ahead of time yet though, and we’ll resist if he’s in the middle of playing or overtired. It’s fine; I’m just happy to skip the one poopy diaper a day.

Basically everyone approaches potty training however seems easiest to you and hopefully it works out. Glad your plan worked for you, OP.

[Anonymous]

Your kid sat on a toilet for 18 months before they peed even once? Seems uneffective. 3 is the late side of normal for training. I dont think those 18 months of sitting on a toilet helped you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid sat on a toilet for 18 months before they peed even once? Seems uneffective. 3 is the late side of normal for training. I dont think those 18 months of sitting on a toilet helped you!

+1 - kinda sounds like you waited until your kid was on the older side and they figured it out on their own. Lazy but effective!

[Anonymous]

3 kids day trained super quickly before turning 2 or at 2. It was one of the few things that just came super easy for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid sat on a toilet for 18 months before they peed even once? Seems uneffective. 3 is the late side of normal for training. I dont think those 18 months of sitting on a toilet helped you!

He trained before he turned three so somewhat typical I’d say. Not early but not late. Anyway it wasn’t even intentional- I was just in the habit of sitting him there, probably bc he was unclothed and with water running and I didn’t want him to get an urge and pee on the floor. And then one day he just…went. It just seemed so much easier than the other ways out there. I’m just curious why it is not more conventional wisdom to just stick your kid on the toilet starting at a young age to familiarize them with it. Anyway, just sharing in case someone has a young toddler. Worked for us and we never had to do oh crap or buy a mini toilet etc.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get it, are you bragging?

Most kids are trained at 2.

[Anonymous]

I'm impressed with your commitment to do this for 1.5 years before it clicked, I am not that patient so kudos to you for that. It worked better for our family to do it early around right when they turned two and take about a week to do the naked approach (only naked for a day or two usually). Some of this is probably personality! I like to do things all at one time, I'm not very patient, like i mentioned

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid sat on a toilet for 18 months before they peed even once? Seems uneffective. 3 is the late side of normal for training. I dont think those 18 months of sitting on a toilet helped you!

He trained before he turned three so somewhat typical I’d say. Not early but not late. Anyway it wasn’t even intentional- I was just in the habit of sitting him there, probably bc he was unclothed and with water running and I didn’t want him to get an urge and pee on the floor. And then one day he just…went. It just seemed so much easier than the other ways out there. I’m just curious why it is not more conventional wisdom to just stick your kid on the toilet starting at a young age to familiarize them with it. Anyway, just sharing in case someone has a young toddler. Worked for us and we never had to do oh crap or buy a mini toilet etc.

Sure, but it was also a year more of diapers which for me, I was ready to be done with! But not everyone is. So this might work for some. A lot of more wiggly kids would not just sit on the toilet like that for more than a few seconds though. I think your perception of how difficult the other methods are is maybe a little different than what it actually is. It's all in your personality and what works for you. I have one friend that the slower, a little at a time, getting on the potty each day for a very long period worked super well! Some people like to just make the transition and be done, which is fine too and only difficult if that doesn't meld with your personality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid sat on a toilet for 18 months before they peed even once? Seems uneffective. 3 is the late side of normal for training. I dont think those 18 months of sitting on a toilet helped you!

Yes OP, this was my first thought.

I trained a bit "late" too, around 2.5/2.75 years old. But it took 3 days for both kids, and rarely an accident after that. Saved me a year of potty sitting with nothing to show for it apparently!

[Anonymous]

Late 2s, early 3 ps is not late. It’s when most kids are ready.

Trying to train earlier takes months bc the kids just aren’t ready.

Used 3 day training in the late 2s/early 3s and had only a few accidents. Easy peasy, no drama.