Advice on Potty training

robertkellymoore

It's great theme but can someone tell me what the process....

SuzieH

I would say it is way too early. Can your child speak well enough to say Mummy I need a wee? I waited until dd was nearly 3 and she cracked it in 3 days. 1 accident since

faithcecilia

SuzieH wrote: »

I would say it is way too early. Can your child speak well enough to say Mummy I need a wee? I waited until dd was nearly 3 and she cracked it in 3 days. 1 accident since

Many would be able to. I was toilet trained at 20months after telling my parents that 'soandso doesn't wear nappies, I wont wear nappies!' At the same age I could read music and converse with adults - I once told my parents friend that his car wasn't yellow, it was beige, he had never imagined a child my age would know that word.

That said, my brother was over 3, mum thought he would get married in nappies!

faithcecilia

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

That theory went wrong for us somewhere then. All my three wore terry towelling nappies and my daughter was at least 2 1/2 and my boys were over 3 before they were out of nappies.

But they may just have been slow trainers generally - they may have taken even longer in disposables!


DH was fed at set four hourly intervals too and if the clocks changed he had to wait an extra hour! Luckily for her he was a good baby who slept well and wasn't much trouble and she only had one. She had a bit of a shock when our three came along and didn't adhere to her idea of what babies are like.

My parents did this, to be honest I don't think its a bad thing, meant I was in the new timezone within one feed cycle.

Maybe I am just old fashioned??

Nicki

faithcecilia wrote: »

Many would be able to. I was toilet trained at 20months after telling my parents that 'soandso doesn't wear nappies, I wont wear nappies!' At the same age I could read music and converse with adults - I once told my parents friend that his car wasn't yellow, it was beige, he had never imagined a child my age would know that word.

That said, my brother was over 3, mum thought he would get married in nappies!

Crikey! My DS is 19 months at the moment and is at the one word level. There is no way on earth he could string a sentence like that together, nor I suspect even formulate the thought. He also wouldn't be able to dress or undress himself at the kind of speed required when bladder calls (if at all). As for reading music :rotfl:

I like to think you were an exceptional gifted 20 month old faithcecilia rather than that my youngest is particularly slow! He certainly doesn't seem to be out of line with the other children we know of the same age. Most kids aren't remotely ready to toilet train at 20 months in my experience.

faithcecilia

Nicki wrote: »

Crikey! My DS is 19 months at the moment and is at the one word level. There is no way on earth he could string a sentence like that together, nor I suspect even formulate the thought. He also wouldn't be able to dress or undress himself at the kind of speed required when bladder calls (if at all). As for reading music :rotfl:

I like to think you were an exceptional gifted 20 month old faithcecilia rather than that my youngest is particularly slow! He certainly doesn't seem to be out of line with the other children we know of the same age. Most kids aren't remotely ready to toilet train at 20 months in my experience.

I was a precicious brat I think!!:p:D:p I could read music by 2 and English well before 3. Sadly everyone else has caught up with me now and Im no longer a genius;)

mrcow

faithcecilia wrote: »

I was a precicious brat I think!!:p:D:p I could read music by 2 and English well before 3. Sadly everyone else has caught up with me now and Im no longer a genius;)

well exactly.

The ability to pee in a plastic bucket by a certain number of months in no way indicates IQ level or how successful a person will turn out to be in the real world.

OP - don't listen to anyone how tells you what your children should be doing. Next time your MIL says anything about it, just smile and remind her that you know best for your child.

Also - don't listen to anyone who will bore you with stories of how their kids were potty trained by 1 or reading by 2. Most of it is complete nonsense (or VERY selectively remembered/made up) - people only tell you what they want you to hear. You never get the stories of how unbearable their kids actually were.

balletshoes

frugalfreda wrote: »

I am thinking, or actually to be precise, 'going to start' potty training my 22 month old girl soon.

MIL has been on about it since my daughter was 6 months old and it is now stressing me out and I feel uncomfortable about it, and a bit cr*p. Even my mother has made comments but doesn't make me feel so uncomfortable about it.

I work part time and intend to take some days off soon so that I have 10-12 days at home with her to start it off and will not go out during this time. This will be before her 2nd birthday. The ideal time would have been earlier this month when I was off work for 3 weeks but my daughter came down with a sickness bug so puking and toilet training wouldn't have gone well with each other.

My daughter has a potty and seems to have a grasp of what it is for but won't sit on it for any length of time, although admittedly I have not pushed her for a while. I don't know if the potty is smaller than average as it seems small for her but she is average for her age.

I am just curious about other parents' approach to it. I know someone who went for the 'all or nothing' approach with her son and didn't go out of the house for 2 weeks, and this worked - he was 2 and a bit. Also, hear of people who keep nappies on their child during the potty training. Do people still hold their child over the potty just before they go to bed (this would disturb my daughter too much and wake her up!)? How long to keep nappies on at night? So much to think of!

Just interested in other views really. Thanks

I think every child takes to it differently, and with different levels of success to start with.
I tried first time with my DD when she was about 18 months I think, but we didn't get anywhere and she clearly wasn't ready. When she was 2 and a half she just decided she was a big girl (after having my 3-year old niece stay with us overnight) and didn't want to wear nappies anymore. She skipped the potty stage altogether, just started to go on the toilet with a little step in front of it. Within 3 weeks she was dry night and day and I don't remember any more than a handful of accidents in all that time.

My littlest niece is 2 and a half now and has been potty training for a couple of months. She did start on the potty, but within a fortnight was on the toilet. She does wear a nappy at night still, but as she's mostly dry at night, as well as asking to go to the toilet when she needs to in the daytime, I think she'll be out of nappies altogether shortly.

barbiedoll

ladymarmalade1970 wrote: »

That is actually a very fair point but my mums neighbour reckons her's were out of nappies by 9 months lol. I am honestly not joking and i just don't believe that.

My friend's mum has always said that all four of her kids were dry at 9 months. Funnily enough, two of them are now alcoholics, one (my friend) has been in therapy for years because of her traumatic childhood memories and one won't have anything to do with the mum and hasn't spoken to her for over 20 years.
Hardly what you'd call great parenting!

pinkmami

Help! I'm at my wits end. My boy was 3 at the start of April & a week before Christmas he started weeing in the potty for me (pooing in a nappy which was fine), and I "introduced" him to the potty on his 2nd birthday.

At half term in Feb it stopped all together & won't do anything for me in a potty nor toilet. So I relaxed a bit. He's been in cotton underpants for me since Christmas & goes to playgroup every morning for 2 hours. He refuses to wee for them there too. He holds the wee in & when he wan't to poo he wees the same time in the nappy.

Now I think its time to go cold turkey & sort this out cos I know he can wee in a potty and he waits for the poo to come along and does bother together in a nappy.

He will be in school for 4 hours a day come Septemer & I need him toilet trained by then so I have 4 months to sort it out.

I have 2 potties for him. 1 blue & he didn't like it so I bought a green on (dinasour like George off Peppa Pig!) & he isn't too keen on that neither. I also have a pink toilet seat.

All advice gladly welcomed!!!!