At what age did you start potty training your child?

Question

Was it successful or do you wish you had waited?

Answer 1

children learn at different ages, does not mean that one child is better than the other. just put undies on them when they wet they will know, most kids don't like it, unlike diapers or pull ups panties don't draw the wetness away from them it lets them know that they are wet or poopy and that that is not right. after a while they will learn. as far the night time try to make them use the potty before they go to sleep it may work, but to be on the safe side, use pull ups or diapers (just to keep from having a mess in the am) if you feel comfortable have them come to the bathroom with you and try to potty at the same time, or make a game out of it, one of our friends daughters learned by putting dish washing liquid in potty chairs and when they pottied it made bubbles it was fun for them you can try many different techniques you will eventually find one that suites your child, dont give up :)

Answer 2

My daughter was fully trained by two through the night, my son was by three, they were very advanced in everything, but the potty training!!! Don't push it they will go when they are ready. The only way we got it to work though after starting was to discipline if they started having accidents after doing good for a week, people said not to discipline, but the first time we tried that and it didn't work, if we made them sit down or not get a treat when they had an accident they went better in the potty because they knew if was something they were supposed to do.

Answer 3

My son stayed with my Mother when I went back to work. She's started sitting him on a small potty a few times a day at six months. Of course every once in a while he did something in it and she rewarded him. It slowly but surely sunk in that this was a good thing, and at 19 months we bought training pants. He hated them because if he had an accident, he was soaked and he couldn't stand it.

At 20 months he was going to the potty (no more accidents) and he was thrilled when we let him throw those training pants in the garbage and he received 'big boy' underwear! Big, big day for him.

My advice: don't spend money on pull-ups or anything else that will keep all wetness away. Just invest in some good old fashioned training pants (they look like really padded underwear) If your child feels the wetness, they will want to prevent it!
God bless!

Answer 4

I trained my daughter about 3 months before her 3rd birthday. I wanted to do it sooner, but it was kinda hard because I work full-time and wasn't able to be there to make sure she went. My father in law was NO HELP when he babysat. My daughter goes to daycare 2 days a week, so she got to see her friends use the potty and she slowly started to grow interest in it. I took a week off of work while my husband was on a business trip and my inlaws were gone on vacation the same week. I had her trained in 3 days. She only wore pullups at night...for about 6 months.

I used the rewarding system. I went to the dollar store and got about $10 worth of prizes, wrapped them up in tissue paper, put them in a basket high up in the closet. She knew they were there. I explained to her that if she used the potty, then she got a prize. If she was getting too many prizes during the day, I'd give her 1 or 2 a day...but she had to use the potty all day long.

I used the rewarding system after the 3rd successful day.

Answer 5

Every child is different and will show signs of readiness at different ages. You know i've read this artical in a maz that there at celebs training their children to use the potty at 6 months of age. YOUNG to my opion. but in poor parts of the world some mothers teach their children young because they can't afford diapers or so. And in others believe that the earlier the better. Who really knows. As every child knows when they have to go, and u'll c them get curious about what goes on in the bathroom. I started my child at 12 - 15 months....but it took longer. She had accidents and we went to a pack of diapers and panties....i told her when the pack was done we will try to do ONLY the potty now....she went and then accidents again. Did another pack of diapers....diapers at night or long trips and panties in the day and short trips...when that pack finshed...i just encourage her to do the potty...that is the last pack of diapers and we are going to be a big girl and go to da potty. I had a few accidents..mostly when she played and didn't want to go to the bathroom...but she learn completly by time she was 18-20 months. Other friends had taught their children for 12months to 4 years.. Depends when u feel they are ready or u dont want to change any more diapers...Ha ha..
oh yea...like on parent said...Dont invest in pull-up or any other of those things...Waste of Money and it takes longer to get her or him use to the idea of going to the bathroom...I used diapers as a back up but she learned to take them off when wet and sit on the potty. the other parent also suggust get the old fashion training pants...SHE's SO Right!! IT helps kids understand wetness...and discomfort. :)
ENCOURAGEMENT...AND PATIENTS!!!

Answer 6

When my daughter started taking off her diaper when it was wet and bringing me a dry one to put on her, it was time to introduce the potty to her. She was about 2 years old then. It all depends on the child. DO NOT force the issue it will only make them stubborn. My best friend's stepmother forced her to start training her daughter at 18 months and she wasn't ready. She didn't potty train until she was 4 years old after all the trauma. I took my daughter with me to the bathroom so she could watch me and see what I did, I do the same thing with my youngest daughter now, she looks under my leg to try to see where the sound is coming from. :)

Answer 7

I started training my first child at about 2 years old, a girl, and it took her about 2 or 3 months to be completely trained. I also have two boys who I really didn't have to direct because they watched my daughter, and as boys the younger followed the older and before I knew it they were set to go. I always say that I only trained my first child since the other two went so well. They are all much older now, and I am glad that I started when I did.

Answer 8

We started in earnest when my son was about 2 1/2; though I wish we had started earlier. You may think that if you wait till he's older you'll be able to reason with the kid and explain the benefits of being able to use the potty; but I expect that parents in our parents' day accomplished potty training much more quickly by starting earlier and relying on simple conditioning (training the kids' bodies to respond instinctively to sitting on the potty by going pee or poop, like Pavlov's dogs).

Answer 9

Bought a potty chair for daughter when she was 2, but didn't really start training til she was 26 mos. She caught on really fast and once it really clicked (within a couple of weeks), she also stayed dry through the night. Once she got it into her head that pee pee and poo poo go in the potty, she seemed to no longer find it acceptable to go in her diaper during naps and nightime, so it was really pretty easy. One thing I found that really helped her intellectualize the process was to make her doll go potty, then have her show the doll how she goes potty. That really did the trick. Good luck!

Answer 10

I was trained at 18 months, my brother at the same age, but we had to start over when he was 2 because the toilet lid fell on his weewee. The youngest was trained by 19 months.

We started whenever there was an interest, and there was always an interst because mom talked about us being big kids and going potty in the potty some day. We naturally wanted to be big kids.