Survey about potty training?

1. We never pushed it but he was well aware of the purpose of the toilet from about 13-14 months. He would watch us while we went and copy us (his Dad sits there blowing his nose, charming, so this is what Jake started doing!)

2. Closer to 18 months, he was staying dry for long periods of time and telling me when he was 'yucky'. For us, potty training wasn't a big thing, Jake basically trained himself. He had been doing poo on the toilet for a few weeks before he started telling me _before_ he need to do a wee. He started wearing 'big boy underwear' during the day, and it sounds gross but it seriously only took one or two times for him to find himself wet, and that this was a feeling he didn't like, to then start using the toilet full time. He was fully trained within a couple of days, evident by the time we were driving only a week or so after he was trained, and we were on the freeway and he needed to go. We couldn't stop for about 5 minutes, and when we did I assumed he would be wet, but he was still holding on! He was 20 months old by the time he was fully night and day trained. (now 29 months, more often then not he wakes me up in the middle of the night if he needs to go)

3. I would not recommend a potty chair at all. I cannot understand why you would teach your child to go to the toilet in what is essentially a bowl on the floor of your living room, only to master this, and then have to teach them that "oh yeah, the rest of the world actually uses this little device called a toilet" You can buy little toddler seats that fit perfectly over your own toilet seat. We had one similar to this which goes over the seat and has a little ladder so they can get on and off by themself.

4. Basically just winged it. I followed my sons cues and just went with it. A big part of being trained at an early age is to do with communication. My son is quite advanced in his speech so obviously he can tell me when he needs to go. I know some 2 year olds who are still not quite conversing, so I do believe that being able to communicate is a major part of training. If your kid can't say "Mummy, quick, I need to do a wee (or a poo!)" -- then they are not ready :)

. When did you decide to begin potty training? Did you start at a commonly recommended time (like 18 months) or were you able to take cues from your toddler/s either before or after that? We bought him potty at 2, didn't get it out until he was around 2.5 (after Ava was born) but really it was his daycare teacher that realized he was ready and started putting him in underwear (one month before he turned 3). I honestly didn't make much effort. I was very pregnant and then had a newborn when he was the age that he was "supposed" to be potty training. I knew he wasn't ready though....

2. How long did it take for your toddler/s to be completely potty trained? From the day he decided he was going to pee/poop in the potty he was pretty much trained. He had a couple of accidents that first weekend and one or two since, but that's all. It was a month before he turned 3.

3. What kind of potty chair did you use or do you recommend? I bought the Babies'R'Us one.

4. How did you learn good tactics for potty training? Or did you just kind of wing it? I honestly think you really have to wait until your kid is ready. Not when YOU think they should be ready, when they are ready. And don't get hung up on an age when you think a kid should be trained. It will only stress you out. If you wait until they are truly ready, you will have a lot less stress and a lot fewer accidents.

5. In your experience (or just opinion), is it easier to potty train one gender or the other? Just trained one so far!

1. When did you decide to begin potty training? Did you start at a commonly recommended time (like 18 months) or were you able to take cues from your toddler/s either before or after that?

I started introducing the idea at age 2. She didn't really show any interest in the idea so i didn't push it, just occasionally tried it. Started training pants and pull ups though to get her to understand what it was to be wet.

2. How long did it take for your toddler/s to be completely potty trained?

When we wound out we were expecting #2 9just 2 weeks after she turned 2, we decided we wanted her potty trained before baby arrived. Didn't quite happen, but she was fully potty trained by age 3.

3. What kind of potty chair did you use or do you recommend? I had a garage sale one that the seat could come off the little chair and hook onto the big potty. She ended up doing way better on the big potty vs the little one. She never actually went potty in the little one. I would reccomend this kind though so you have the option to try both and see which works better for Ari.

4. How did you learn good tactics for potty training? Or did you just kind of wing it? i bought her a baby that you can feed, and it pee's in it's own potty... but she more or less played with the baby and set it on the potty. she didn't really undertand that it could actually "pee" too... and she would drink the water out of the doll's bottle! lolI also had a potty chart with stickers to mark when she would try or went (I can send it to you if you want, i made it myself!) and would give her 2 m&m's every time she actually went.. The m&m's idea I got from the daycare as that's what they do for the kids while training them.

5. In your experience (or just opinion), is it easier to potty train one gender or the other? I've only done it once, and I have 2 girls, so i really can't comment on that!

Make it fun and exciting, cater to who your child is (for example, if she likes to do things to mimic you, then show her how she can be just like mommy by using a big girl potty too!), and don't put pressure on her to be trained by a certain time, it will go smoothly!

PS, Pull-ups has a website and you can get a free potty training dvd. it's cheesy, but it has a lot of helpful stuff! and you don't have to use pull-ups, it works for reg. training pants too.

Good luck! =)

We officially started with my daughter at 2. She told us when she went and a few other cues. I

2. One year night time and day time she was done by 3 no accidents. She is 4 now and in the last year maybe 3 accidents and none at night in her bed. To be honest though she would have been done sooner but we were not consistent. A few months in we gave up and only half a$$ tried. We had a new baby that need physical therapy and lots of doctor visits and it was easier to just clean her up then remind her and take her, so we dropped the ball on that.

3. We had just a basic one and a seat that went on the toilet and a fold up one to put in the diaper bag and carry with us, we kept it in a ziplock bag.

4. Coworker was potty training at the same time and I asked questions on here often back then. We looked at videos and stuff etc. For us a reward system worked best. We had a chart that we found for free online and every time she went she got a sticker when the chart was full, however long it took she got something. We got a 50 piece Mr. Potato Head set and she got one piece every time it was full. Once that was done she got a My Little Pony every time. Once she got the hang of it she would have to not have an accident for a week then two weeks etc before she could get something. Then we phased it out.

5. My son is 2 now and we have not started. He does not tell you when he went/goes and not showing signs of readiness

1) We started the concept around 24 months.

2) they were both around 3 or so when they were fully trained

3) we had both a potty chair and then the seat for the toilet

4) when we first start training it was mostly introducing them to the potty and to the idea. we found it really helped to get the kids around other kids who were trained or was being trained. Once we did this they were confident enough to lose the pull ups and only do the underwear.

5) i thought it was easier to train my son my daughter has a mind of her own. however, my daughter was almost completely potty trained right after we introduced it all to her but then we moved and she decided she didnt like the potty training thing so it took about another 6 months after that for her to be trained.

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1. He had turned three a few months earlier. I waited until he came to me wanting to be out of diapers. Made it really easy doing it that way.

2. He was day trained in a week, night trained in maybe a month or a bit less.

3. He just used the regular toilet.

4. We rewarded pees and poops with an m&m. Stopped on the pees when he started squeezing out a tiny drop just for some candy. Don't get angry over accidents.

5. I wouldn't know, but I've heard girls are easier.

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I was confident that, given access and an example to follow, she would sort it out herself. She did over a couple of days at 2 3/4s; pretty sure it would've been earlier if I had not been resistant to getting a potty (I just had a little seat for the toilet). But she was very taken with "little [her name]-size toilets!" and that sealed the deal, after months of just asking for a diaper when she needed it and discarding them afterwards (night one was gone just after 2). The potty was in use for a few weeks, and then she switched to the regular toilet without any prompting on my part.

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