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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - parents today make everything sooo much harder.
Everything. More stress. What is the most stressful way to handle a situation? That is what they will attempt to do and then think/say it's the standard practice.

Just turning 3, they will be potty trained in 2 days.

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THAT IS NOT TRUE!! Jesus, stop spreading that lie!  I started potty training my DD at exactly three and it took NINE MONTHS.  At the voiding clinic where we ended up taking DD for not being able to poop on the potty, the experts said it was because we waited until 3 to toilet train her.  [/quote]

IT IS TRUE!!

My kid trained right before 3, in about a week. He wasn't ready till then. He has a sibling that trained the week they turned 2, in a few days-that child was ready then. Was your dd ready and you 'didn't' train her, or was she not actually ready till age 3. My guess is-if she had issues so severe that you needed a voiding clinic, it wasn't related to a few months difference in training. Sounds like it was physical or developmental.[/quote]

It is psychological. Some late training kids develop a preference for going in their diaper. You won't know if that is your 3 year old until it is too late. So you get to choose between training a compliant toddler who needs time/help developing the voiding skills vs. gambling on a preschooler being cooperative. I have never met a wilful <18 month old. [/quote]

I have. My DD :) [/quote]

Same. My DD was super independent from very early. DCUM never believes this but when we tried to potty train her at 22 months, it was a disaster in exactly the way people describe training a 3yo. Like the more she realized we wanted her to go on the potty, the more resistant she was.

One thing I learned from my potty training experience though is that it made me realize that you have to take all parenting advice with a massive grain of salt because kids are different and the same approaches don’t work universally.

This is one reason why the special needs forum on DCUM is the best parenting forum— most posters there assume your kid deviates from the norm (this why you are asking strangers for help) instead of berating you because their standard advice isn’t working for your kid.[/quote]

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