Folks who say their 3 year olds potty trained in a day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some kids do decide to stop using diapers and potty train themselves. I've noticed these kids seem to have older siblings fwiw so maybe that has something to do with it.

Other kids literally will wear diapers as long as they are given an option. I know one kid who turns 4 next month. His parents weakly attempted to train around 2.5 and gave up after 1 day due to "too many accidents". After that, his parents hoped and prayed the kid would magically decide one day to potty train himself (they also seem to be rather lax in other aspects of parenting from what I've seen). He is sent to daycare in underwear daily and still has multiple pee and poop accidents a day, resulting in being in pullups by pickup. Kid literally DNAF.

Also perhaps my kid was advanced or something but I disagree that every single child needs regular assistance until they are 3. I do assist with wiping poop, more for my own anxiety about cleanliness than his ability, but he's been independently going pee since age 2y4m, (meaning he self initiated, manuevered pants, flushed and washed). Heck he was completely out of diapers entirely by 2y9m, night trained himself. We day trained right at 2.

The parents who can’t potty train are ALWAYS lazy in other areas. They are typically enablers. Usually there is a mom who is enables the husband to do very little. The kids usually have bad sleep habits, parents have no social life outside of kids and kids are behind other kids when it comes to things like being able to be left at preschool, with a babysitter without having a meltdown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids do decide to stop using diapers and potty train themselves. I've noticed these kids seem to have older siblings fwiw so maybe that has something to do with it.

Other kids literally will wear diapers as long as they are given an option. I know one kid who turns 4 next month. His parents weakly attempted to train around 2.5 and gave up after 1 day due to "too many accidents". After that, his parents hoped and prayed the kid would magically decide one day to potty train himself (they also seem to be rather lax in other aspects of parenting from what I've seen). He is sent to daycare in underwear daily and still has multiple pee and poop accidents a day, resulting in being in pullups by pickup. Kid literally DNAF.

Also perhaps my kid was advanced or something but I disagree that every single child needs regular assistance until they are 3. I do assist with wiping poop, more for my own anxiety about cleanliness than his ability, but he's been independently going pee since age 2y4m, (meaning he self initiated, manuevered pants, flushed and washed). Heck he was completely out of diapers entirely by 2y9m, night trained himself. We day trained right at 2.

The parents who can’t potty train are ALWAYS lazy in other areas. They are typically enablers. Usually there is a mom who is enables the husband to do very little. The kids usually have bad sleep habits, parents have no social life outside of kids and kids are behind other kids when it comes to things like being able to be left at preschool, with a babysitter without having a meltdown.

There are a variety of reasons to delay. Sometimes you Don’t know what method to use, but you’re researching. Sometimes you know that there’s going to be a big change, And you know that you don’t want to backslide.

As I said, I trained six kids between 16 months and three years in a couple months. According to my mother I was potty trained before my sister was born when I was 13 months. According to my grandmother, my mother was potty trained before her brother was born when she was 18 months. Potty training early takes more effort, Ime. But since there’s no possibility of a poop phobia that early, I’d much rather go that way.

[Anonymous]

Our oldest did it in a day, all I can say is he must have been ready and we didn't know it. He'd been sent to another classroom at daycare, kind of a try it half day before being moving up for a full day. He came home wearing underwear, had gone in a diaper. I said where's your diaper? He said, grizzly bears, or whatever classroom it was, don't wear diapers. And that was the end of it. I didn't do a darn thing. Don't worry, potty training our second was so awful, it was awful. Took months. Many, many accidents, many, many months.

[Anonymous]

My son trained in about a day at 3. Starting at 2.5 he saw other kids using potty at daycare and loudly proclaimed: “I will use the potty when I am 3.” I took diapers away and that was it. We used maybe 3 pull-ups, then underwear.

Later in ES, he was diagnosed with ADHD/ASD so that may explain rigidity around idea.

Trained DD at 29 months. She’s great at home and can hold it when we’re out and about. Will NOT use potty at daycare. So I send her in pull-up. She holds until nap....floodgates open and comes home in new pull-up. Planning at ask pedi about it at appointment this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The parents who can’t potty train are ALWAYS lazy in other areas. They are typically enablers. Usually there is a mom who is enables the husband to do very little. The kids usually have bad sleep habits, parents have no social life outside of kids and kids are behind other kids when it comes to things like being able to be left at preschool, with a babysitter without having a meltdown.

I just don't see that. We know a ton of families with 3 or more kids, and I can't think of a single such family that struggled with more than one child's potty training. OTOH, almost all families had that one kid who was a pain to train.

Funny enough, the only two families that I can think of that had easy potty training for all of their kids are the two that trained all kids on the third birthday.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t train my younger two boys early/young (21 and 22 months) for bragging rights. We didn’t start potty training my oldest until around 3 (looked for those ridiculous “signs of readiness”) and he had a horrible time. Big time poop-phobia that went on for nearly a year. I think it’s because he couldn’t poop sitting down and it scared him after standing to poop in his diaper for so long.

The two younger boys took to it easily and happily. Maybe two days each. In my experience it is just easier on the child to train early.