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At 2.2 years old (whatever that means...just say newly turned 2 year old) it is really really really really hard for a child to A) recognized/acknowldedg the full bladder sensation B) recognize the need to allow time to get the potty C) connect A and B

It is asking A LOt in a small amount of time. Is there a reason you are rushing it so much??? Just like any learned activity it takes time. Did you make your child walk everyday when she was still crawling too? And given your experience you might need to change your strategy. Or wait a little bit. Try again in another 3 months or so (when your child is 2.5 years old).[/quote]

I agree with the first part. I don't agree with the second part. If you wait until a child can do A, B, and C, the child may be in diapers for a long time, when alternatively the parent could just put the child on the potty regularly. I suppose it's true that the child isn't truly toilet-trained [b]until the child can do it all by itself (say, by first grade)[/b], but I didn't really care if the child was "truly toilet-trained"; my goal was to get the child out of diapers.[/quote]

Huh???? Most preKers are potty trained. 1st grade? Do you have or had a child going through potty training?[/quote]

There were a few kids who didn't make it to the bathroom in time, in both my kids' first grades, even though the bathroom was right there in the classroom.[/quote]

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