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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to get the urge to go every time I went to Barnes and Noble in my 20s. The playground is a poop trigger for your kid OP. Stop taking him for a while as others have suggested. And quit with carting the plastic potty around. Gross.[/quote]

What is with this anti-plastic potty thing? It's so helpful when they are little and much less gross than having them wear diapers. OP, ignore these fools.[/quote]

I do think the portable potties are gross for poop. I also think the push to potty train earlier and earlier, and to do it fast so that families can keep going out as much as possible, is what drives their popularity. We never used a portable potty because we stuck close to home when potty training and also didn't rush it -- we were just never in a position where my kid was young and inexperienced enough with potty training that they couldn't make it to a nearby bathroom to go. I didn't really consider her potty trained until she was capable of realizing she needed to go with enough warning for us to get to a bathroom. And yes, that meant that for a while we had to stick to playgrounds at rec centers with toilets, or close to home. It was like 6 months -- not a huge sacrifice.

The upside is that my kid never pooped herself at the playground. YMMV.[/quote]

Are you kidding?  No, the recent push is to wait and stay home, not potty train your kids young.

FWIW, I potty train between 18 and 24 months.  My family trained 12 to 18 months.  I don't work with kids who are 24 months or older if they're not already trained or I'm not allowed to do it asap.

~nanny[/quote]

My sense is that you are not from the US. In the US, somewhere between 2 and 3 has been the standard for decades. It was probably younger before disposable diapers became so cheap, but in the last 30 years or so, it has been normal for people to start sometimes after 2 but before 3. Plenty of kids train after 3. And that's not a recent trend. It was how my mom approach potty training in the 70s and 80s, as well as pretty much every mom in our neighborhood.

But in the last 10 years or so, the push to train earlier and to train via "bootcamp" has really taken off. Oh Crap! was published in 2011, and that's part of it. Before that, parents just kind of assumed potty training was a process that would take at least a few months and up to a year, and there was less pressure to get it done. The main pressure would be from preschools that wouldn't allow kids with diapers, so parents planning to send kids at 3 would want to get it done before then. This pressure is compounded by more childcare workers immigrating from countries where early training and elimination communication are the standard, and encouraging or teaching kids in their charge to train earlier. But in the US, this is a relatively recent phenomenon.[/quote]

I am the 2nd nanny on this thread and American born and raised.  In the higher income world, most kids are now potty trained around two.

My method isn’t boot camp.  It’s a very calm modification on Oh Crap and has never taken more than a few weeks - and the vast majority of those days were just routine accidents.  [/quote]

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