when did you start to potty train your little boy?

[GA1977]

I was going to make a poll but I have a follow question also.

1) when did you START to potty train your little boy (daytime trained (doesn't have to be night trained)? Did he catch on easily or did it take a long time?

2) when was your little boy potty trained (not including night training)?

Boden is 20 months old and we are NO WHERE near even the idea of potty training!! I don't see it anywhere in our near future (and i'm fine with that). But I'm just curious what other moms of boys have done/are doing.

[TripMomma]

Xander is going to be 4 in July and is still not ready...I hope it will be soon though. We started trying a couple days here and there, with nothing but accidents, around 2 1/2. Jericho is 16 months and doesn't show any signs at all.

[misfit]

Sam we started shortly after he turned 2. Started off okay and then he regressed and demanded to wear diapers. I assume it was in relation to his new baby brother. Waited until he was 28 months and stayed in for a week, let him have control (let him run around naked pretty much with the potty chair in the living room), and he was pretty much daytrained after that week. Some accidents here and there. Night trained by 32-33 months. He also taught himself how to use the big potty.

[raspberry]

We tried at 2.5, but he wasn't ready. He didn't have the vocab, and developmentally he wasn't ready. Tried again at 2.9 and he did really well at the house, with a naked bum. It took him a few months to get the hang of underwear and clothes. We had a lot of accidents while we were out of the house. He was day trained at about 3.5.

[froggie83]

talking about it ... he tells us when he has already gone....or removes his diaper if he can (he can't do it with a onesie on) we are using alot of potty talk and put him on the potty but not actually starting serious training... i plan to actually start trying after we move and get settled in.

[hpfan04]

We started at about 2.5 and he did very well with peeing, but was definitely not ready for pooping. He went naked around the house and would pee when he needed to, but would ask for a diaper for pooping, which I was okay with, and he would wear diapers when we were out and about. Finally about 3 weeks ago (he'll be 3 next week), it just "clicked" and he wanted to start peeing and pooping on the potty. He'll even tell me when he has to go when we're out and about now. I really think it's different for every child. I think they need the language skills to tell you when they need to go and they have to have the desire to go.

[i.<3.cheesysmiles]

We tried shortly after he turned 3. It was a disaster. We tried a few months later, and he PTed in 2 days with no accidents after that. It was very easy the second time we tried.

[Ashleen]

I guess I am kind of potty training now and my son is 17 months... We have had the potty out since he was about a year. I always tell him that pee and poop goes in there. When he sits on it I take off his diaper so he can try. He pees in it a few times a day if he is wearing a diaper and a bunch of times a day without. He started this maybe a month ago. I say I am KIND of potty training because I am really not trying and am really leaving it up to him. I'll probably start for real in the summer when he can be bottomless all the time.. unless he trains himself before then.

[ktacserv]

My son is a bit over 3 and I don't think we are even close to getting there. !

[JennM17]

With matthew,he was 2 years 10 months. We did the 3 day PT. Stayed in the house the whole time, he did great with no issues. This includes popping. He was already night trained on his own before this, without our help just always woke up dry.
For the first 6 months we might had had on accident once every few weeks. Normally around a schedule change or lack of sleep.
We are a year out and he is petty much good to go.

[Jai]

1) started to train at 3y almost 4m. He took to it right away. (granted, we made a couple half @ssed attempts prior- this was just the time we went at it hardcore)

2) He was fully day trained just shy of a week later. And fully night trained 2 months in (although actually prob a bit earlier but he was still in pull ups)

[tanyachap]

I am very uneducated on the subject and mostly do it by what I consider common sense. So take my advice with a grain of salt. I look for mental/emotional and physical signs. By mental/emotional I consider interest and desire plus ability to express himself and follow explanations. By physical, I mean bladder control and ability to have dry periods for about 2 hours. If you put him on the potty and he cannot make himself pee most of the time (no bladder control) or if he pees a little bit every 30 min or so (very short dry periods), then it is so difficult to work with him. I know how long his dry periods are b/c we cloth diaper and it is very obvious.

Kevin did not have bladder control till he was 3 but had all other signs. Once he got bladder control, he PT for days without looking back or having any regressions. Matthew does not have long dry periods, he squirts here and there although he just started showing some bladder control. I wont bother before I am sure he is ready.
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[Capricity]

We tried at 2yrs 2 months with DS and it was a disaster. We tried again at 2.5 and again disaster. Like 100% failure. Then we tried at 3 months shy of his 3rd birthday and he got it. He's just about 99/100% daytime.

[RachelB]

We weren't going to even approach it until he started asking a lot of questions, showing interst, etc - or when he turned 3, one of his present would be big boy underwear. However, daycare has started introducing him to the potty (he's almost 2 1/2). He wears pull-ups because all the other kids in his class wear them.

At home, he goes in the potty about once a day, usually before the bath. Or after he poops in his diaper . Or when he's stalling bedtime. We ask him all the time if he wants to use the potty - sometimes he says yes, but he usally says no.

We've gotten a few books, some good, some useless. The most inspirational book for Tanner has been My Big Boy Potty. Everytime we read it, he wants to go

Our plan is to go with the flow for now, but not press the issue until he's 3 years old.

[puppy wuv]

DS just naturally night trained himself from a very young age. So I never had to worry about that. We started day training a few months ago with some success. He pees and poops in the potty if I leave him naked in the house. But if I put a diaper or pull up on him, he doesn't try to hold it AT ALL.

[Bec]

We tried at 2.5 nada, tried just shy of 3 and he took to it just a bit. Waited until the month after his 3rd bday and pushed the issue. (He is very stubborn and hard headed. He will not do ANYTHING he doesn't want to unless forced. Don't even asked what he had to do to get him to go #2 on the toilet ) He was fully day trained at 3.5 night trained before his 4th birthday.


ETA: Girls are sooooo much easier!!! lol

[mla]

We tried maybe three times, starting at about 18months. He was clearly not ready. Then last December, we tried again -- put him in big boy undies and it took about 3 days for him to totally get it. We had some issues with bowel training, but within a month he was going #2 consistently in the potty as well. So, we started at 3y3m and totally finished a month later -- but remember that he was completely pee trained within a few days and mostly poo trained, too. He just wasn't 100% consistent with number 2 for about a month.

ETA: Oh, and we're not night trained yet. But I don't really believe in night training. Once his body has figured it out, we'll put him into undies at night. For now, though, I don't mind using pull ups or diapers at night to catch any pee that makes its way out. I'd say he wakes completely dry about half the time.

[OhBaby]

I was going to make a poll but I have a follow question also.

1) when did you START to potty train your little boy (daytime trained (doesn't have to be night trained)? Did he catch on easily or did it take a long time?,

First tried fall season around 26 months for a week. It became very obvious that he wasn't ready so we didn't push it.
Our training involved getting him nakey ;) waist down so we waited for fall/winter to pass and resumed spring - around 32 months.

2) when was your little boy potty trained (not including night training)?

It took 3 days to potty train him (daytime) both #1 and #2. Within a week, he was night trained with no accidents.

[spiscariot]

We will be starting sometime after the baby is born and then at least after he is 2. He's nowhere near ready (21 months) - doesn't tell us when he has to go, doesn't mind a wet/dirty diaper, etc...

[pants]

1) when did you START to potty train your little boy (daytime trained (doesn't have to be night trained)? Just two months shy of his 3rd birthday. So he was 34 months old.
Did he catch on easily or did it take a long time? He caught on right away. We did the bare bottom training. 2 days and he was trained both day and night.

2) when was your little boy potty trained (not including night training)? Both day and night took us 2 days. Day 1 was just letting him go around bare bottomed and I would load him up with drinks and I would walk him to the bathroom every hour or so. Day 1 night I put him in pull ups and he woke dry. He never ever ever not even once woke dry in diapers (cloth or disposables). Day 2 I let him go around bare bottomed again but this time I did not take him to the potty. I had him show me where the potty was for the first time. Then I let him learn by trial and error. We had a few accidents. but most of the time he would run to the potty and make it and a little would get on the floor. we had one poop on the floor. Day 2 night we put him right into undies. He woke dry. Day 3...no accidents at all and woke dry at nights. It was no turning back at that point. He has only had a handful of accidents day or night. It was much much easier the longer I waited. I would not stress about potty training before 2 years old unless he is showing strong signs of wanting to train. He'll get it when he's ready. It was much much less stressful to just wait.

[babykenny]

Just before DS turned two he expressed interest in the potty chair we left out for him to notice/investigate. It took us a couple weeks, but he was a little over 2 when we could switch to big boy underpants during the day. He still wears pull ups at night, and will occasionally have an accident after his nap, but most mornings he wakes up bone dry. He probably got it down pat at 2yrs, 2mos. We are careful to bring him to potty frequently though, and he has gotten good at telling us he has to go too.

Disclaimer: I also should mention that DS goes to daycare 3 days a week, and I attribute a lot of our success to him watching his peers master it and want to do it too!

[ibisgirldc]

I don't recall exactly when Nicholas started but we saw the potty seat at Target (maybe around 24 mos?) and he loved sitting on it (not understanding what it was). So next trip, I took it off the shelf again and when he again liked the little chair, I bought it. We practised sitting on it and maybe a few days later, he peed in it. We started to bribe him: one jelly belly if he peed and two if he pooped (not that he did). He would get to choose the color. Over time, he would get used to peeing it it versus the diaper - and no more jelly beans. (We have two of the little seats and two that rest on the full-sized toilets - three floors in the house.) He may still pee in his diaper or underwear, but usually, he prefers the seat now. It just was a matter of him getting to the point where he doesn't like the feel of the wet diaper.

For pooping, which often comes much later, we used bigger incentives. At first, he refused to do it. Just wasn't interested. But I found something that recommended a toy that can be used only while they're working on pooping. He loves transformers and we put an optimus prime at each potty that was ONLY for when he pooped. That did it. Not saying that he's fully trained and we'll often put him in diapers or a pull-up to go out... but during the day, he's usually pretty good with it.

[MamaToe88]

22 months we started, he took on pretty easily. Still had accidents here and there. He was potty trained entirely by about 26 months. its a process and it just depends on the child. If your child knows what pee and poop is, and is aware of where it all comes from, your child is definitely ready. Just observe him and see if he notices. Does he stop when he pees? Does he tell you when he needs changed? Look for things like that. A lot of boys don't even START until they are 3 though, I think I just got lucky!

[3andMe]

We tried at 18 months, with no success. Tried just before 2 1/2, 3-day method, and it worked. Days 1 and 2 I thought for sure we were not going to be successful again, but Day 3 he was going in the potty all the time. I can only think of maybe a handful of accidents he's had since then, in two years. He is not night-trained yet. Both of my twins had about the same level of difficulty in training/learning. Neither one was showing all that many signs of being ready for potty training either, except for being able to undress themselves.

Baby S. is trying to potty-train himself right now. I have not really been training him, and in fact I've been putting it off because we have a road trip coming up and nothing is worse on a road trip than a newly-potty-trained child who thinks he has to poop every 15 minutes. Well, things could be worse, but that was our experience the last time we did this trip, for the first four hours of the drive. Our youngest son is 2 years old and he thinks he is ready. He is showing all the signs of being ready except being able to pull his underwear down.

ETA: Per my pedi's recommendation, I started putting all of my kids on a small potty first thing in the morning and last thing before bed, just for a few moments (usually I'd read them a little story), just to get them used to sitting there. Often, just the temperature change would make them pee a little bit, and I would applaud them for peeing in the potty. So they've been used to sitting in the potty and occasionally peeing in there for a long time. I wouldn't call that the start of potty training for your question, though, but it probably helped them a bit.

[BrandiB]

My DS is 3 and shows no signs. He has no interest. Sure wish he would get ready though lol. We haev tried a couple times but it has been a fail everytime.

[Dreya]

The oldest was trained just before he turned 3. It was like the spring of that year and he turned 3 that summer. He was completely out of diapers from the get go pretty much. He's still not night trained, I mean he's dry about 80% of the time I'd say but I still put him in a pullup just in case.

Just to note: The oldest had no "signs" and no interest at all, but the baby had just been born and I was like "okay kid you're using the toilet." It was a little difficult at the time because he was a late talker so we did it before he was verbal. Being persistent and consistent was what did it. Took him to the potty every half hour at first. He was still refusing to poop in there and would go in his pullup at night so one day I knew he had to poop and was holding it, so I made him sit there until he did it. He sat there for about an hour and cried but he did go eventually and there have been no problems after that. I was gentle with my words, I just said "If you have to poop you need to sit on the potty and poop" but it still upset him.

[AmeriBrit]

We tried at 18 months, with no success. Tried just before 2 1/2, 3-day method, and it worked. Days 1 and 2 I thought for sure we were not going to be successful again, but Day 3 he was going in the potty all the time. I can only think of maybe a handful of accidents he's had since then, in two years. He is not night-trained yet. Both of my twins had about the same level of difficulty in training/learning. Neither one was showing all that many signs of being ready for potty training either, except for being able to undress themselves.

This was my experience with DS1. He is now 4 and sleeps in underwear but has an occasional accident. Most of the time, he wakes up once in the night to come downstairs to wee, though.