How to know when to toilet train?

[Anonymous]

I had zero kid experience before having my son do I could use some advice. He is now 19 months and I SAH with him, but he will start a 1 day a week program in September. When is the best time to toilet train? He is also not talking much at all and has just a few words, not sure if that factors into it.

[Anonymous]

I should add that he had just started peeing (seemingly on purpose) during bath time sometimes and watching and laughing at it.

[Anonymous]

Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

Is it good to start a little now and get down to it later? I thought people said not to start unless you’re ready to buckle down and be done in a few days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

Is it good to start a little now and get down to it later? I thought people said not to start unless you’re ready to buckle down and be done in a few days.

Awareness first. You child knows when he is pooping but since urination is a release rather than a push, and the stay dry lining of disposable diapers doesn’t allow him to feel the result of urination, I think awareness should come first. It also makes potty training at 20 months so much easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

Is it good to start a little now and get down to it later? I thought people said not to start unless you’re ready to buckle down and be done in a few days.

Awareness first. You child knows when he is pooping but since urination is a release rather than a push, and the stay dry lining of disposable diapers doesn’t allow him to feel the result of urination, I think awareness should come first. It also makes potty training at 20 months so much easier.

+1

[Anonymous]

Read Oh Crap.

I think the best time is before 2/2.5. Before they are stubborn and “know better”. My son was 22 months and showed ZERO signs of readiness. But I knew he was smart and capable enough to learn this. Plus, he LOVED to please and needed a project. He was trained in about a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read Oh Crap.

I think the best time is before 2/2.5. Before they are stubborn and “know better”. My son was 22 months and showed ZERO signs of readiness. But I knew he was smart and capable enough to learn this. Plus, he LOVED to please and needed a project. He was trained in about a week.

+1. Oh Crap method was easier after awareness. PP here and I didn’t even need to do the Oh Crap boot camp with my third child. He toilet trained himself based on but naked awareness outside and seeing his older brothers.

[Anonymous]

Do it now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

Is it good to start a little now and get down to it later? I thought people said not to start unless you’re ready to buckle down and be done in a few days.

Awareness first. You child knows when he is pooping but since urination is a release rather than a push, and the stay dry lining of disposable diapers doesn’t allow him to feel the result of urination, I think awareness should come first. It also makes potty training at 20 months so much easier.

+1

+2. This was our experience as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read Oh Crap.

I think the best time is before 2/2.5. Before they are stubborn and “know better”. My son was 22 months and showed ZERO signs of readiness. But I knew he was smart and capable enough to learn this. Plus, he LOVED to please and needed a project. He was trained in about a week.

Yes to Oh Crap, there’s a window.

The most important factor is your level of readiness/willingness/commitment to this, not your child’s. Oh Crap did a good job of preparing me in that sense. This isn’t a thing where you just kinda see how it goes and give up-if you want to do it, you commit to doing it. So you have to know yourself and whether you’re ready to go for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

Is it good to start a little now and get down to it later? I thought people said not to start unless you’re ready to buckle down and be done in a few days.

Awareness first. You child knows when he is pooping but since urination is a release rather than a push, and the stay dry lining of disposable diapers doesn’t allow him to feel the result of urination, I think awareness should come first. It also makes potty training at 20 months so much easier.

Weird theory.

Op, start when he's 2. Put him in underwear and pants he can pull down on his own. Take him to the toilet every 2-3 hours. Rinse repeat.

Bottomless is gross. Piss can stain hardwood floors and and you don't need to shampoo your rugs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

Is it good to start a little now and get down to it later? I thought people said not to start unless you’re ready to buckle down and be done in a few days.

Awareness first. You child knows when he is pooping but since urination is a release rather than a push, and the stay dry lining of disposable diapers doesn’t allow him to feel the result of urination, I think awareness should come first. It also makes potty training at 20 months so much easier.

Weird theory.

Op, start when he's 2. Put him in underwear and pants he can pull down on his own. Take him to the toilet every 2-3 hours. Rinse repeat.

Bottomless is gross. Piss can stain hardwood floors and and you don't need to shampoo your rugs.

It is summer. You can do bottomless in your yard or deck.

Btw, accidents in pants leak on to the floor, too.

Don’t wait, OP. My kid is three and still can’t get his pants up on his own. He has been potty trained since he was 21 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read Oh Crap.

I think the best time is before 2/2.5. Before they are stubborn and “know better”. My son was 22 months and showed ZERO signs of readiness. But I knew he was smart and capable enough to learn this. Plus, he LOVED to please and needed a project. He was trained in about a week.

My experience exactly.

I got the recommendation for this book on DCUM and followed it to the letter. Worked like a charm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start now. Explore naked time and underwear outside this summer and let him get acquainted with how his body works. Try to catch a poop on the potty. Start potty training in September.

Is it good to start a little now and get down to it later? I thought people said not to start unless you’re ready to buckle down and be done in a few days.

Awareness first. You child knows when he is pooping but since urination is a release rather than a push, and the stay dry lining of disposable diapers doesn’t allow him to feel the result of urination, I think awareness should come first. It also makes potty training at 20 months so much easier.

Weird theory.

Op, start when he's 2. Put him in underwear and pants he can pull down on his own. Take him to the toilet every 2-3 hours. Rinse repeat.

Bottomless is gross. Piss can stain hardwood floors and and you don't need to shampoo your rugs.

It is summer. You can do bottomless in your yard or deck.

Chigger, mosquito, and tick bites on your kid's butt, how fun. Plus if whizzes out side where does the actual potty training come in?