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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I trained both my boys before age 2. About 20-21 months.

We used o crap but your daughter might be a bit old for that method. That method is intended for 20-30 months of age. Girls are often trained at 18-24 months and many people wait later for boys.

The closer you get to age 3 the harder it gets. You want to train when they are still in the pleasing stage. 3 is notoriously hard. [/quote]

3 is mostly hard if you powerstruggled earlier and failed.  If you wait till 3 it’s usually a breeze.  [/quote]

Or you could wait til middle school and tell them you're going to take their phone away if they don't use the toilet. [/quote]

Except the vast majority of kids are trained before they start school, and training at 3 has no long term impact on a kid's life. Kids who aren't trained by the time school starts usually have other issues.

I honestly feel bad for people who think potty training 6-12 months earlier than other kids is some parenting badge of honor. Seriously, who cares?[/quote]

My kids went to preschool a few mornings a week when they were 2 and they had to be potty trained. I don't think I knew any moms who waited to send their kids to any sort of program until kindergarten. Do people with late trained kids opt out of preschool or just wait until later because of potty training?[/quote]

That's very rare. My kid was in a co-op at 2 and starts preschool at 3 and there were plenty of kids in both who were still in diapers or pull ups. Obviously less at age 3, but still a few. Most preschools are certified daycare facilities and can change diapers -- the only reason they require kids to be trained is if they don't want to jump through the hoops to be a certified facility which would allow their workers to handle toileting issues. It developmentally normal for many 2 year olds and some 3 year olds to still be working on toilet training.[/quote]

This was several years ago but it was a "high end" preschool and there was no diapering. The teachers they hired were not daycare workers. It wasn't that they were avoiding getting licensed as a daycare. I think the kids had to be 2.5 or 2 years and 9 months to go there. I never heard any of the parents complain about not being able to send their kid in diapers or pull ups. [/quote]

Right, "high end" preschools that don't operate as daycare facilities are rare. Most kids in some kind of group care at age 2 are in daycare, and daycares will change a 2 year old's diaper.

Parents don't complain because who cares? Lots of daycares/preschools will take kids in pull-ups at that age so it doesn't matter. One of my kids was trained at 2.5, the other was not. If we'd looked into that program for the one who wasn't, I would have just been like "whatever we'll send her to this other school that permits pull ups." We're talking about "school" for 2 year olds here so it doesn't actually matter. A kid can learn the alphabet song and how to count to 10 in French and get lessons on how "sharing is caring" almost anywear.[/quote]

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