Potty Training

[vixy]

Hi,

what age did you start potty training LO?

What tips do you have for gettng started?

My LO knows when he needs a poo and when hes done a wee and poo and he also recognises his potty but i dont think he asossiates the two. Not sure where ready yet im just after tips etc

xx

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

my son is really really late he will be 3 in december, he is really really sensitive, one day about 12months ago he had a nappy off did a wee wee, even though i congratulated him and said wow thats how daddy does his wee wees he went absolutely ballistic! it really scared him. then came the day he did a poop without a nappy, went ballistic again.

so to get him over the poo poo thing we kept showing him his poo poo in his nappy, the wee wee thing well still working on it really. a week before our newborn arrived he showed interest in his potty for the first time ever, so i though right get him to wee on it, he was desperate for a wee, went to get a nappy, i stopped him put all the nappies away and said basically he was a big boy etc etc potty etc etc honestly he was absolutely bursting when we started, 5 hours later he finally did it purely because he couldnt hold it in any longer. not ideal and the reason i didnt pursue training after that was because well our baby was due that week and i didnt want to risk him getting a urine infection from holding in his wee like that

so my advice would be, make sure he is truely ready, go at his pace.

the important thing everyone will tell you is to have patience and never ever tell them off for having an accident. i have looked into reward charts for my toddler

2 weeks ago i said to my toddler right we are buying 2 packs of nappies once they are gone we are potty training, he is defo ready, he puts on his own nappies for crying out loud! and i am not talking pullups lol

 

[Kimmy25]

Make sure they are old enough to understand what is going on, dont rush and pressure them otherwise it just makes it very stressfull for you both.

My son was 2 and a half when he was ready and it only took one day of accidents and he was done, and never wet the bed either

 

[Babushka99]

Supernanny said around 18 months is a good time to start, or if they are waking up with a dry nappy you can start earlier & that that is a good indicator that they are ready. She said if they don't seem to be getting on doing it then let them have the nappy again for a while and try again later.

 

[babz1986]

Supernanny said around 18 months is a good time to start, or if they are waking up with a dry nappy you can start earlier & that that is a good indicator that they are ready. She said if they don't seem to be getting on doing it then let them have the nappy again for a while and try again later.

I have to disagree with this, waking up in the morning with a dry nappy doesn't mean that they have the understanding and to connect the feeling of having a wee/poo to using the toilet. Personally I wouldn't start with this indicator.. its very rare that children are dry in the morning before they've even started to potty train.

The youngest I've seen a child potty trained and completely dry is 16 months. The latest is 4 years. It completely depends on the individual child. You need to wait for them to realise when they've wee'd and poo'd, as soon as they start telling you that they've done a wee and a poo what you need to start doing is putting them on a potty after every nappy. This way your getting the association of using the potty/toilet when they've done a wee or poo and therefore initially training them to recognise this is where they need to wee or poo. Once they've got the feeling of needing a wee or a poo, there'll more then likely start asking for the potty before, or if you know your child's signs then put them on or ask them before they 'start'.

The last thing you want is to force your children and then scare them. I once looked after a little girl who's parents were adamant she needed to start potty training. We had to agree and so arranged everything with them.. after the 1st week she was just constantly wetting herself and hated it! in the end once her knickers were put on in the morning she'd hold her wee until she went home! We knew this wasn't healthy and it took alot of convincing mum and dad that she wasn't ready to put her back in nappies and start again in a couple of months.

Your LO does sound ready and if he was in a nursery they'd suggest to start trying. Some children do learn by having pants put on them and then learning that if they wee its uncomfortable so manage to hold it and wait for the toilet.

 

[skydragonfly]

To me the earliest you can train a child is when they are ready. If they don't know they are weeing then there is no hope of getting them to do it in a potty/toilet. I have certainly found that it was easier to train my 2nd,3rd and 4th children because they were comfortable around the potty from an early age (the first 4 kids were born within 5 years). My youngest to be dry during the day was 15 months and she was just hell bent on copying the others. I used to give them nappy free time so they could 'feel' the effects of them weeing, if they happened to do a wee in the potty then it was just brilliant. I never pushed them, just rewarded with praise when they did it.

If you think about it, its just a muscle group they have to learn to control, just like when they learn to walk. It takes encouragement and praise, patience and sometimes a lot of time but they all learn it. xxxx