How late did your child potty train?

sarahevie

DD1 3 years 4 months.

Dd2 2 years 7 months

DD1 was very late compared to her peers but just wasn't ready for it.

However, I have never 'potty trained' and my girls have never had more than 10 accidents between them. They went straight from nappies to no nappies night and day.

I've had friends say 'mine have been potty trained for months' yet everytime you meet up said child has an accident, that to me isn't potty trained. Mine never used pottys, went straight to the toilet.

I'm not saying one way is better than another, but I don't believe in the 'potty trained' just meaning not wearing nappies, to me potty trained means no accidents and knowing you need to go and what to do.

Lunar_Eclipse

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I'm not saying one way is better than another, but I don't believe in the 'potty trained' just meaning not wearing nappies, to me potty trained means no accidents and knowing you need to go and what to do.[/QUOTE]

I agree and it never occured to me it could mean 'just not in nappies', except I also think it means "trained" to some degree, as in taught, as opposed to waiting until a child is ready and just uses the toilet by their own accord.

I opted to train mine at the age of two, but think most children can be trained/taught at a much younger age (the historical potty training pre-disposables) or left until they are 'ready' at a typically older age.

OrkneyStar

To me 'not in nappies' or 'toilet trained' or 'potty trained', means they use the potty and/or toilet (DS started with potty though had it in bathroom mainly, but moved onto toilet easily enough fairly fast), don't need nappies, and if they make mistakes then they are certainly not a regular occurrence.

fabforty

OrkneyStar wrote: »

To me 'not in nappies' or 'toilet trained' or 'potty trained', means they use the potty and/or toilet (DS started with potty though had it in bathroom mainly, but moved onto toilet easily enough fairly fast), don't need nappies, and if they make mistakes then they are certainly not a regular occurrence.

Thanks for posting this, that is exactly what I meant. I had no idea that the phrase 'potty trained' would cause confusion.

Pennywise

Our DS was very late to all the milestones, talking, walking, using the toilet and night-time dryness. He would have been 3 when he started using the toilet, and probably 4 or 5 by the time we stopped putting a nappy on at night. But, at each milestone, he just did it and we probably only had one or two accidents, both daytime and night-time.

Our neighbours tried to get their two girls dry at night from a far too young age and ended up with regular wet beds for months.

Every child is different and as long as they're potty trained for starting school, then what's the problem? I think it does more harm than good to push them when they're not ready.

Spendless

My son was 2 years and 5 months when he told my MIL he didn't want to wear a nappy anymore- she took it off him. He had 2 wet accidents in the first fortnight, one when we were driving, the other time at a soft play area. As he's my eldest I thought this was what all kids did and said 'what d'ya mean??' when overhearing a conversation about potty training at nursery.

My daughter that everyone had told me 'ooooohh, girls are so much easier to train than boys' was a flamin nightmare in comparison! In the end her key worker at nursery asked if I needed help with it and she cracked it instead, DD was 2 months off her 3rd birthday.

My sister has boy/girl twins. My neice only trained around her 4th birthday and nephew was a few months past his 4th.

Greenqueen_2

DS1 was in undies fairly successfully by 2 yrs 7 months but wet every night until he was nearly 8 yrs old!

izoomzoom

I am a Childminder and shockingly I've only had two boys (countless girls) - 3y2m was his age.. He cracked it straight away, because he was physically and emotionally ready.

Nicki

You can't force a child to potty train before they are ready. All 3 of mine became completely clean and dry in less a week. Unfortunately for 2 out of the 3 that week was preceded by several weeks of multiple accidents per day. Once they got it, they got it quickly but before that point it was with hindsight a complete waste of time trying to push the issue to match some Daily Mail idea of good parenting and acceptable ages to still be in nappies

Agutka

Both my boys were way past 3yo, ds2 is approaching 4 and often has dry nappies at night. Ds1 is 6 and wees in his night nappy and doesn't care a fig about being nappy free. People tell me that I should not be giving them drinks after a certain time, but I don't agree with that. And I tried that 'take him to loo before you turn in', he just would not be roused!

Don't worry about it I say