Who's giving potty training a go?

Allie - posted on 11/21/2010

I personally am against training children until they can go night after night while staying dry. Its great to read books, and to have dolls so that children understand the concept. It is important that they know when they need to go and how to control the muscles to prevent an accident. My husbands side of the family is trying to train my daughter without my permission. My daughter keeps apologizing to me when she has an accident and I dont like that they managed to manipulate her like that. As if wetting herself is bad and she is supposed to get upset about it. I would allow your child to have a potty, along with books and toys, to play with and to learn.

Tina - posted on 11/11/2010

We've been potty training for a few months now. Things were going really well until my daugther had an accident one day while she was running around the house without a diaper on. She refused to go to the potty again for a couple of months. But, now she's back, and goes to the potty for all but 2 or 3 pees throughout the day. We're hopeful that she's getting it.

Rachel - posted on 11/09/2010

Hi,

yeah my son is 2 and we have tried and tried and ive giving up its a bit hard. We sits on his potty and all but he wont wee or anything i think he doesnt have bladder control yet. But i was thinking towrads the end of the year to try again but its hard i must admitt. you can only give it a go with your son and see how he goes i wanted the same i have a 5 month old daughter and i wanted him out of nappies by the time she came but it didnt happen. :P

Jenni - posted on 11/08/2010

My daughter just turned two on october 27th and she is doing very well with potty training! We have been on and off working on it only as she was interested so we didnt make it a neg thing. We give her a stamp on her hand for trying and a candy when she goes and she has been going this week pretty well! I think she may stick with it now that we started to do the candy thing lol. I think kids will go when they are ready. Even if they are smart enough to know how they may not be ready emotionally for that step so let it come as they feel ready.Good luck!!

Stephanie - posted on 10/03/2010

I actually started potty training my almost 2 yr old when she was about 18months old. Not by force but because she started telling me when she had to go as she puts it "poo poo" and runs towards the bathroom. I havent gotten the going pee part down pack yet but almost. I think maybe you should just introduce him to the potty and see how he takes it and go from there. If he seems really interested in it.. then give it a a whirl and who knows maybe it'll go really well.

Claire - posted on 09/18/2010

hiya i started potty trainin my little boy about a month ago, he got off to a rocky start but after a couple of days, he took to the potty really well. He was clean and dry in the day from about three days in. Haven't done nite time, just get the day time established first. James had a book from the library about a pirate family and it really helped him

Tracy - posted on 09/16/2010

my daughter is 2 next month and she is trained at home but in pull ups when we are out.she started bout 3 months ago as she was watching her older sister and ever since then she uses potty or toilet.

Shoshana (Meddie) - posted on 09/15/2010

We took him shopping at 20 months for a potty seat and fun stickers. We started taking him to the bathroom with us anytime we went to let him know the bathroom was the place to go to pee and poop. Two weeks after we bought him books and started having him sit on the seat and read the books while potty training. I never liked pull ups so we went from diapers to big boy undies. At 21 months old he cut back on accidents (mostly when he was too busy playing). Now he is 22 months old and doing great! He has he's occasional accidents (when he's too busy playing) so we have to just keep him concentrated and interested! The big boy undies worked great for us, he enjoyed picking out he's favorite characters!! We still have to come to the bathroom to wipe sometimes, but he's learning with that too. He will be 23 months old on the 28th of this month. We too have another baby who will be three months old tomorrow, and our 22 month old really enjoys the BIG BROTHER role and takes pride that he doesn't wear diapers like he's baby brother. I have heard every child is different, but with our son he let us know signs that he was ready. We just stayed consistent, and packed plenty of change of clothes when we went to town.

Rebekah - posted on 09/15/2010

My twins are nearly 2 but we have our third due right around their birthday so I didn't want to start anything and have them regress after the baby is born. So I will be doing triple nappy duty!! The twins were 3 months premmie so I think I can give them a bit of leeway with when they are trained. Good luck!

Casey - posted on 09/13/2010

they say kids cant detect when they need to go till they are two anyway, though my girl knows when she needs to poo but not when she needs to pee yet, try pull ups our girl loves them and there is no mess or upsetness if he wets them our 6 year old used them when he was training was the best thing, dont rush just introduce him to the potty even let him watch his dad go as this helps with boys. some kids thrive off reward charts or rewards, and when he goes in his nappy just say oh you went poos ect then hell recognise what you talking about when u ask if he needs to go potty, another thing you could try is if he has a routine of when he goes maybe take his nappy off and put him on it around the time he goes.

Jenny - posted on 09/13/2010

I started potty training at 20 months and it's going well. I still put a diaper on first thing in the morning, nap time and during bed time. She can stay dry for 3-4 hours at a time and is very interested and is going potty on the big girl potty now. She actually prefers the big potty with the insert more than the small potty. I think it's because she wants to flush it away. Start small and work your way up. When we put her in undies she stays dry 90% of the time because she likes the feeling of undies. Good luck.

Kate - posted on 09/13/2010

Miah is my 3rd child so I started potty training at 13months. She has been in undies (accept for nights) since she was 15months. The best thing I found was once you have taken the nappy off....Dont put it back on. Let them watch you or older siblings go to the toilet, and encourage and praise. Who cares about accidents!

Jennie - posted on 09/13/2010

We have started slowly and don't push it but he is 23 months and takes his diaper off when he needs to go , and will tell us if we ask. It is not everytime but he is leading the way on potty training

Yvonne - posted on 09/12/2010

my daughter is now 23mths.. she had been potty trained since she is 11mth old and has been free from diaper since 13mths... day and nite.

to me, it took a little effort as we need to clean up the mess and etc. the main success is due to the child's request to be diaper free...

hence, do not stress up when to do it, but speak to your child and get some cooperation from him/her.

Jessica - posted on 09/12/2010

Look for signs that he's ready. Things like taking his diaper off, trying to come into the bathroom with you, being really interested in the toilet in general are some signs that he's ready. There's never any harm in trying. The harm comes if you try and force it. If he fights it then he probably isn't ready and that's fine. My son had all the signs of being ready but whenever we tried to put him on his potty or the big one with a little seat on top he'd freak out. So we let it go and then tried again in a few days....and just kept doing it till he decided he wanted to do it...If you want to message me I can give you more pointers if you feel like you need them. :) Our son loves the toilet now and cries everytime we tell him that he's all done. lol...Also, www.babycenter.com has always been very helpful to me. :)

Annalee - posted on 09/12/2010

My almost 2 year old is starting to show interest in potty training and we have potties in every bathroom for her to become familiar with. Shewent poo on hte potty 2 times just this week but I feel she still isn't completely ready. I'm going to get some big girl panties soon and pick a week around Thanksgiving (when I will be off work) and really be intense about it. I think she would get the hang of it if I had more time to work presonally with her but I am a working mom. However, she sees children in her school going to the potty and this has really made her more intereested in the potty in general. Good luck to you all! It will happen when our little darlings are ready and we least expect it!

Dilini - posted on 09/12/2010

I have started giving it a try. My lil girl will be 2 next month. I tell her to go to her potty when i feel she might need to and she know to put the panty down, lift the lid and go. However she is still not sure about telling me when she has to go. But i feel its a good age.

Naomi - posted on 09/11/2010

My daughter will be 2 on 10/10 and she has no interest in potty training except for the pink pull ups that a friend gave me because her daughter grew out of them. She thinks that the bathroom is for taking baths and brushing her teeth and has no interest in the potty. Needless to say, we haven't started thinking about potty training yet. I'm sure we will soon. She has time.

Jayme - posted on 09/11/2010

I started my daughter a couple months ago. she isn't taking it very serious yet but is very interested in using the potty either while I also have to go to the bathroom or just after or before shower time. For the most part Aly doesn't go to the potty all by herself yet although there have been times especially for number ones but she is really catching on to use the potty while she is already in the bathroom.

Autumn - posted on 09/11/2010

HI, IM TRYING TO POTTY TRAIN MY ALMOST 2YR OLD DAUGHTER. ITS A HANDFUL THATS FOR SURE LOL. SHE HAS USED THE POTTY TWICE AND NOW SHE DOESNT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE POTTY! BUT I KEEP TRYING TO KEEP IT ON HER BRAIN AND SHE WILL LET ME KNOW WHEN ITS THE RIGHT TIME ITO PROCEED. GOOD LUCK!!!

Tiffany - posted on 09/11/2010

oh, and I still put her in diapers for long rides and bedtime....at first she was scared of her potty too, but having her sit on her potty while I sat on the toilet worked, I left her potty in her room at night also and n the mornings sometimes I would find her dirty diaers in there, so she gets the idea, but it takes patience. My little brother was terrified of the toilet until he was nearly 3 and decided he wanted to be a big boy one day.

Tiffany - posted on 09/11/2010

My daughter isn't 2 yet and nearly a month ago she started taking her nappies off when they were wet and trying to change herself. So I started taking her in the bathroom when I went, and sather on the potty first thing in the morning, then every hour, or whenever her body clock usually made her do a wee. Now she kind of hops around when she has to go and is making it nearly every time. The real change started though, when I changer her into panties instead of diapers. You'll go through a lot of underpants t first, but the kid will REALLY notice when they're wet and most of them don't like it so making it to the potty is just another added incentive (on top of the praise and occassional treat for going wee). She doesn't always make it, but I still praise her when she tries, and I don't yell at her when she goes in her undies. It's working WAY better than I thought!

Laureen - posted on 09/10/2010

Right before my son turned 1 he climbed out of the bathtub, lifted the lid on the toilet and peed... on the floor... but the effort was there. We took the cue and bought him a potty chair with the money we got when we returned a duplicate birthday gift from his Aunt. He was interested in the potty... it's one of those singing ones, so he learned pretty quick how to make the song play... it was a toy, so I took of the piece that sings. Dad showed him how to pee in the potty and we left it alone. We left it in the living room in case he wanted to try it out. He was so young I didn't actively train him. But, if I saw he needed to pee, I'd take him to the potty and show it to him, sometimes that worked. After a month or so he all but forgot about the potty, it became a stepping stool, so I moved it into the bathroom beside our toilet. After a few months he randomly decided to try to use it again. This time I was a little more active, basically meaning I left him diaper-less most of the day. Then he started napping without a diaper. Now he sleeps through the night without a diaper. Usually spends the day naked only wearing a diaper when we leave the house. His 2nd birthday is a month away and he is pretty much 'potty trained'. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that we use(d) cloth diapers. Or if it's because I recognized his signs so early on, but didn't push him on it, this is all happening at his own pace. I'm actually kind of sad to be out of diapers. I sew my own and just got a load of new fabrics (this is an order ahead type of things so in January I thought I still had diapers to make :D), I hadn't planned on him being out of diapers at 2... But, I am very proud of him.

I also forgot to mention, he uses our toilet and the potty chair almost equally... just whatever he is in the mood for I guess. He stands on the toilet seat when using the big toilet. I have an adult assistance chair on the toilet so there are handles for him to hold that he wouldn't have on a normal toilet. When we are in public places he just braces himself on us while standing on the seat. I guess eventually I'll have to break him of that... but, it works for us for now.

Yvonne - posted on 09/10/2010

I started potty training my little girl. She will be 2 next month. I bought her "big girl" undies and a potty chair. I let her explore the chair and made a big deal about the undies. I ask her every 15-20 mins. if she has to use the potty. I take her into the bathroom and she sits on her chair and I sit on the big potty. I wait a few mins sometimes she goes and sometimes she doesn't. Each time she goes we make a big fuss and she gets mini m-n-m's or a star sticker on her potty chart. It's a commitment thats for sure. Also everyone who is around her or takes care of her has to be on board with the commitment. Good Luck.

Emily - posted on 09/10/2010

I wouldn't say I've started. But he has a potty in the bathroom, and he sits there a lot when we go. He has used it for real twice in the last 2 months. I have a new one due in February, so I'm in the same frame of mind. Good luck!

Charlie - posted on 09/10/2010

My daughter potty trained early, at 20 mos. But that's much earlier than even my older daughter. Both my boys were well into the age of 3 before training. However, I use and highly recommend the book "Toilet Training in Less than a Day". It can be found on Amazon. I've used it happily and successfully with all my 4 children. Good luck! :)

Kim - posted on 09/10/2010

I have just got my nearly 2 yr old girl a potty..just letting her play with it at the moment and hoping to have her potty trained by the end of summer (im in NZ so end of February) . The best thing to remember is that they need to be aware of the need to go and be able to get their pants off easily. my girl understands what the potty is for but she is more interested in putting dolly on it or trying to get me to put her new sister on it so far lol. All you can do is give it a try and if he seems upset or distressed just stop and try again in another week
Good luck..I so understand not wanting two in nappies, the sooner i am back to one in nappies the better :)

Lou Ann - posted on 09/10/2010

I have thought about giving potty training a go also. My little one is almost two and I am not sure if he is ready but he knows when he has a wet or dirty diaper and wants it off sometimes even takes it off. But I wonder if it is too early. He is always on the go. He has went on his little potty chair a few times. I can never seem to catch him before he is wet or messy. 2 hours is too long in between and time goes by quickly. I thought about using a timer to trigger my brain to help with the time period but haven't tried that yet. We are just trying to get him started.

Jade - posted on 09/10/2010

We have bought a toilet seat for my son and we are letting him lead the way. I don't want to push him yet. I had another baby in Feb of this year and it is expensive with having to buy so many nappies but they always have offers on so I haven't found it too bad. I want to get him trained by the end of the year but as I said at the moment I am letting him lead the way. He has used the toilet seat a couple of times though and seemed to like using it, but he is so busy he just wants to keep on his feet lol x

Hayli - posted on 09/09/2010

i started my alomost 2 year old about 2 weeks ago, and aside from the diapers at night, he is completly potty trained! i was a little timid to do it but it has been so easy! i had a baby at the end of june so for a while i was doing double diaper duty too. i wanted to wait till after my 2nd baby was born tho because i didnt want my oldest to revert back to diapers after she arrived! im happy i waited because its been a breeze! :) good luck!

Lori - posted on 09/09/2010

I started potty training, but after a couple of months, my son is still not interested. He would rather play with the cool potty (which plays a song when the urine touches the bottom of the pan) and run around without his diaper than try to use it properly! I am giving him a break and will start trying again in a couple of months (when he actually turns 2).

Erin - posted on 09/09/2010

I would try to get him potty trained before you have your next baby. I have a four month old also and it is tough trying to potty train when the little one needs so much attention.

Roxanne - posted on 09/08/2010

I need potty training tips.. My little boy has been asking to use the toilet for a while so i dug out the potty, and he was so excited about it, shows everyone who comes to visit his potty. He sits on it all the time, but not when he needs to use... When he needs to use it he refuses to go near it, and will not get on without a nappy on. Not sure, if it is too early?

Heather - posted on 09/08/2010

With my oldest son, I tried..and tried..and tried to potty train him until he finally just did it one day when he was 3 1/2..but my daughter will be 2 on October 21st, and she has a big interest in the potty, and has done really well with peeing in the potty :) But I also have been doing double diaper duty. My youngest 2 are 11.5 months apart. I'm just hoping that my daughter is really on her way to being diaper free. But from my experience it is totally up to the child. when your son is ready, he will start doing it. If you push him, you both will be frustrated.

Lori - posted on 09/08/2010

We started with my son at around 18/19 months, and he's now basically completely potty trained during the day, though still in diapers at night. After we'd already started, I read a couple books on early potty training, and would actually like to try to start much earlier if I have a second. Evidently potty training at 2 is super late when compared to how it has been done in the past (up until the invention of disposable diapers). Very interesting history.

But my son picked it up really well - we always had an open door policy with the bathroom, so it wouldn't be a sudden thing to have to learn, and he's always worn cloth diapers, which I think really helped him to know when he was wet.

We didn't use any reward system or anything, other than praise and hugs, etc when he went potty. (Or even if he just sat there at first.) Also he likes when I read him a special book while he sits.

Lately he's wanting to go "standing up like daddy", but it's much messier so I prefer when he sits!

Penny - posted on 09/08/2010

sarah that sounds like the best idea, were due to get laminate flooring so i tink ill wait till then is only a few weeks away. will be much easier to clean any accidents. then i think ill try him for a week putting in 100percent time and effort and see what happens. if nothing/not interested will hold off till he's a bit older. thank you for all your experiences have been a great help. x

Sarah - posted on 09/07/2010

I have made an attempt at potty training, My daughter says poo poo and yucky and potty. She also willingly sits on the potty but refuses to use it to do the deed. I tried gingerly for a week. We put on special big girl undies which she liked and sang songs/read books on the potty but she ultimately ended up waiting me out. We visited the potty every half hour for about 10 mins and she refused to go potty for hours and hours even though I would give her juice while on her potty. When she finally did wet herself (really peed all over herself), thank goodness she was playing in the yard, she didn't care in the least. It didn't bother her to be covered in pee. I decided after a week to hold off for a bit longer. She will be two next month and we will try again in the near future. My advice is try it out for a week be serious about it but also don't force him or frusterate him in any way just make it fun...if he doesn't show any signs of comprehension or progress then leave it for a while and try again when he seems more ready.

Christina - posted on 09/06/2010

We are getting her used to a potty but that is because her older sister is being potty trained and she doesn't want to be left out. Since she is interested in going on the potty, we are giving her the opportunity to do it. Once my older one is potty trained we will start putting her on the potty every 1/2 hour which is what was suggested to me by a friend. But no stress as she may not really be ready, just interested.

Kelly - posted on 09/06/2010

My daughter is going to be 2 in mid-October, so I haven't been pushing the potty training, figuring she is still young. Over the summer she peed in her potty a few times, then wanted nothing to do with it. A few days ago, she came in while I was using the bathroom and said she wanted to poop in the potty. I didn't think she was serious, but I undressed her, she sat down and pooped. She has been coming in the bathroom with me in the morning now for a few days and using the potty right away. She will tell me if she's in the bathroom that she wants to use the potty, and so far, so good! I'm not ready to take her out of diapers yet, but I figured I'll let her go at her own pace and not make a big deal about it (other than giving her high-fives and telling her that she did a good job). I think that she'll transition out of diapers in her own time, and in the meantime, she's getting comfortable with the idea of using the potty.

Elizabeth - posted on 09/06/2010

It's so funny that this is on here today as I just started trying with my daughter. I only started because I caught her as she was about to poo in her nappy and thought I'd put her on her new potty and see what happened (she's been very curious about the toilet/potty for about 2 months, eg wants to sit on it with no nappy but then wants to get straight off again). She did the poo yesterday but mostly she just looked shocked, I think she thought I was tricking her. Since then she's only wee'd on the floor, I don't think she's quite ready yet.

I had the same issue with wanting to train my son before my daughter was born (2 yr, 1week jap) but I ended up leaving it and he trained without any hassles 3-4 months after she was born. I figured if I pushed him just before the baby was born he'd regress after the birth and I'd have the issue of him saying he needed to do poos/have his bottom wiped while I was trying to breastfeed.

Veronica - posted on 09/05/2010

My daughter is almost 2 and i started potty training her just a few months ago. She was scared and confused at first but i started giving her M&M's only when she went, and that made her want to try to potty in the toilet a little bit more. (But you have to give the understanding that they only get rewarded when they do go in the potty). Just don't push your son too much. At this age they are like a spong and learn pretty quick. It's been about 3 months and my daughter is getting better. It takes time and constant consistancy. Give it a shot, you can do it!!!

Kristina - posted on 09/04/2010

I have a daughter who will be 2 yrs next month and a 3 month old. Double diaper duty isn't that bad! I have started training a little bit. Her potty is in the bathroom, as well as a kids seat for the toilet. She would sit with her diaper on while we read books, and now she sits with her diaper off. She has accidently peed 2 times, and pooped once. She cried like it scared her, but I worked it up, made a sticker chart, all of that. I am not pushing too hard, since 2 is still young, but some kids are ready, so you might as well let them experiment! Good luck!