When did you have your toddler potty trained?

I don’t have a toddler but apparently I was hard to potty train and my parents told me they put leather pants on me and when I peed in them it was so terrible that I wanted to go in the toilet 😅

It was a phase that we went through and one day we came out the other side. It was just like flicking a switch. The hardest part for us was pooing in a potty. My little boy would poo when he was asleep as he spent all day holding it. However, we pushed through and got there by being consistent.

My son is 3 and he’s not potty trained. I’m pretty sure that he’s able to be though. If his diapers are off he’ll go to use the toilet on his own however if he has underwear on he hasn’t made the connection yet to do so. I’m very casual about potty training with him. It’s nothing that I’ve consistently practiced with him as of yet though we have several books and songs that we review on the topic. He’s at home with me daily, not in daycare or pre school & I figure that I’ll be less casual about it for him at the age of 4 because I think it al be more natural for him at that time

I find it’s so hard , hardest aspect of parenting so far - my lo is pretty much there now at three - found he responded really well to seeing me really happy that he used the potty - and me singing like a excited song ‘wee wee on the potty!!’ ‘Poo poo on the potty!!’ 🎶- and getting him to give me a high five,,realise though you’re having a hard time getting her on the potty in the first place- have you thought of letting her choose her own potty - when i let my lo choose a potty - that helped too - he chose a penguin one out of a number of animal options - he was about 2.5 when we started tho - could be worth waiting for her to show readiness

my daughter is 3 and not potty trained. she refuses to go on the potty and will tell me after she goes. but never before. it’s been a battle and i’m trying but some days i just want to give up!

Still a work in progress for us, but started with her big girl pants this weeks. Shes 3 years and 3 months. Honestly they are all so different and if he’s not ready I’d leave it a few months

4 officially fully potty trained! Even at night

My son was 2 and was easy. My daughter however is 3 and I've tried everything. She just doesn't want to do it or be out of nappies

My son started refusing the potty once he started daycare. He's going to be home for 2 weeks at Christmas so we're going to try and tackle it again then.

My baby didn’t go till she was three close to four! She finally decided to go all in her own a few months before her birthday. So don’t sweat it they will go when they decide.

My newly 3 year old is still having trouble. Some days he won’t have any accidents and some it’s 2-3 times a day. I was thinking about doing potty training boot camp again but then yesterday he went all day dry 🤦🏾‍♀️. I’m just lost. Don’t feel bad

My daughter would poop on the potty at 2 and didn't pee on the potty until she was 3. My son is almost 2 and a half and we need to start working with him on it. He tells me after he's done, but won't sit on the potty. Maybe over the holidays we'll try the naked method.

He's 3 next month and we started a month ago. Still the odd day with the one or a lot of accidents but he's getting there 😊

This sounds like a power struggle mama, I say maybe transition her to pull-ups and work from there, let her sit on a toy potty while you sit on the toilet and make it a fun thing, try not to pressure her to go, but find a reward that she can’t do without that she likes the most, for my daughter it was a flashlight toy and her princess bike…I told my 4 yr old she can ride her bike and play with that toy when she goes poop in the potty because she will only pee at this point, but my daughter also loves music so see if potty songs will help as well, maybe just give your baby rewards for just learning to pull up and down the pull ups and for just sitting in the potty and not necessarily making her stay on the potty and gradually move from there rewarding her with whatever she loves the most

@Isabella yes that’s true my daughter didn’t start peeing in potty until 4 and then a few months later she just started going on her own, poop has been really tough but we are still working on that…she did poop in potty 1 time on her own so hopefully by next summer before she goes to kindergarten she will be fully potty trained

@luu🤎 maybe try to make it fun and just make it a game or a song? Maybe just sit on the toy potty with clothes on then gradually move from there? Maybe have your baby watch potty songs or cartoons while sitting on the potty?

My daughter was potty trained at 3. I was not playing😂

This thread is so refreshing. My son is 3 and I feel like a failure because he just refuses.

I tried with my daughter when she was about the same age as yours, she was perfectly capable but she was so stubborn she would just refuse to do it. We gave it a break for a couple of months and she trained at 2 years 8 months in 3 days. She started asking to use the potty at nursery as she was seeing other children using it so I think that helped. Sometimes you just have to have a break and try again.

This post and the comments has reassured me so much that’s it not just my son! I’ve been going out of my mind with him. He was 3 in July and was potty trained by 2.5 but he only lasted a few months in his pants and then has just completely refused to wear them ever since. He gets so distressed if I even suggest it. I’ve decided to just not put any pressure on and leave it for a while and then just start again as if we’re potty training from the very beginning. I have heard a lot of people say though that one day they just switch and suddenly decide they want to do it themselves so 🤞🤞🤞

I didn't even start my son until he was 2.5 because he just wasn't ready. First month or two was a lot of being naked and me taking him to the potty every 30-40 minutes. If he peed he got 1 chocolate chip and if he pooped on it he got 2. Month 3 he really started to understand and was staying dry all day. He turned 3 last week, over the last 3-4 weeks his diaper has been dry in the mornings and other than the occasional leak if he's really distracted he's done great. We stopped wearing diapers completely 2 days ago. Dry sheets every morning so far!

@Yasmina we struggle bc my son is a year younger so everytime i try to sit with her in the bathroom he’s doing something he shouldn’t be. and when i leave the room she gets up. it’s just a bunch of back n forth 😭

@Sarah this was the same with us for my son. He wore undies all day and would use the toilet to wee. But as soon as his nighttime pull up went on just before bed he would disappear or he would wake in the morning before anyone else and do it. We just hit the bullet and told him we weren’t buying anymore nighttime pull ups and he would be wearing undies to bed. Took a couple of days after that for the first poo… but once he did that on the toilet and we let him choose a present of his choice we haven’t had any issues

I started to potty training my son when he was 2 years old and I got him little underwear that had a potty chart in the back with stickers. They should have it for girls also and anytime he got stickers or filled it halfway. He either got one toy to pick out or if you get a treat. He was fully potty trained by the time he was 3 years old

I started my first at 2 because I thought that was what I was supposed to do but he 1000% wasn’t ready and it was a disaster. I put him back in diapers and tried again when he was 3 and he did so well! My second (girl) was started potty training at 2 and fully potty trained by 2.5. My third (boy) was stupidly started at 15 months by the daycare so another hot mess situation, but he’s 2 now and finally about to understand potty training more. Give your daughter grace. If she’s not showing interest then take a step back and consider diapers again. They don’t like it when they realize that going potty is a forever thing lol if she’s not showing signs of readiness then it’s honestly pointless. Take stress off of the both of you and try again when she shows interest. Maybe even putting a potty in the bathroom and having her sit on it (even in a diaper) while you go potty. Don’t make a big deal about it. Just do your business and move on. Sometimes not making a big deal about it is best!

My son will be 3 next month and hes still refusing to sit on the potty.

I don’t know if this will work as I haven’t started potty training, but I would pretend that going back to diapers doesn’t bother you AT ALL. Whenever I act like I don’t care (I don’t care if he eats, takes a nap, drinks enough water, etc) he wants to do it more. But if I put pressure on him then he pulls back and fights me on it. I don’t know but I’d try reverse psychology on her. Have her get plenty of Vitamin C too which makes urine more acidic and so UTI causing bacteria can’t survive. Or even try getting cranberries in her diet somehow. Good luck!

My son is 2y3m and we’ve just recently started because he asks to go toilet so it was led by him rather than ‘we’ll do it when he’s 2’

Started at 18months and he was fully trained day and night at 2.