How did you potty train?

Hi I trained my son last summer and just stopped using any diaper during the day. I asked him for the toilet first every 15 min then gradually build it up to half hours. Good luck.

Hi I trained my son last summer and just stopped using any diaper during the day. I asked him for the toilet first every 15 min then gradually build it up to half hours. Good luck.

i have started with my son as well( 20 months) but its a struggle and i have now given up..im having no 2 in ocotber and really wanted this out of the way b4 no2.. with my son he cant relax on the potty and holds it in..the minute i put underwear on it starts "raining". also tried to put the potty in the bathtub with running water but he refuses to sit on it and will just sit down in the bathtub and do it there,while looking at me and laughing! so im also interested in ideas of how to potty train...

My LO is only 15 months and I started looking onto this aftermy MIL pointed out that back n the day prior to disposable nappies, he would've been trained by that age. The statistics showed on many sites that prior to the 70s 80 % of toddlers were toilet trained by the age of 18 months, and now it's only 20%. I found that very interesting. Still not sure how I'm going to start though. Mine wears cloth nappies during the day, and I've heard that helps as they know they are wet.... So fingers crossed :) It is interesting flydiver. I used cloth for all of my children and I used to use these statistics as part of my talks with other mums about cloth nappies. Three toilet-trained children later, I wonder if the reason little ones were out of nappies so much earlier 'back in the good old days' is simply because old-style terry squares really were a bit of a pain and Mums just wanted less washing to do?? Disposables are easier than terry squares, pins, pilchers, stinky soaking buckets etc so maybe 'we' just got lazy and left the training until later??

I tried numerous tactics a few times with my son once he showed all of "the signs" but he was not ready/interested/successful until he was three years old. My middle girl got sick of waiting for me to start the process. ;) She just pulled her nappy off and went to the potty by herself when she was about 20 months. Within a week she was completely potty-capable during the day, but nights took another year. My third child, another girl, also started using the potty on her own at about 22 months. She never wore another day time nappy and now, at 2 yrs 8 months, is dry at night.

Nice ideas Lilli34.... Thanks :)

The most important point about potty training is: is your DD ready? There are certain things she needs to be able to do in order to be successfully potty trained For example: She needs to be able to physically go to the potty or (if you want her to go straight on the toilet) reach the toilet She has to be able to remove and put back on relevant clothes (pants and underwear) For more see here: http://www.babycenter.com/0_potty-training-readiness-checklist_4384.bc My DD was toilet trained during the day at 2 and a half , within 3 days. And dry at night half a year later. Some of her peers started to train a lot earlier and most of them still were far from being toilet trained by the time my DD was dry during the day, this is why I can't say often enough that the most important thing to successful potty training is the child being ready for it. We had a potty she would occasionally use whenever the mood struck her from the time she could propperly walk and that sat in the bathroom so she could get used to it. At 2 and a half she more often refused putting on diapers. After a particular long struggle to get her into a diaper I decided to give toilet training a try. I took the rug out of the living room, placed the potty in a corner in the living room and spent the day with DD inside. There were a few accidents in the first 2 days, but by day 3 we ventured outside to th supermarket successfully. I had a sticker chart with really fancy stickers and for every time she went on the potty she got a sticker. we did that for the first 2 weeks after starting training. Also never put them back into pull ups once they have started potty training. I kept the potty in the trunk of the car for the first few months when we were out and about and there were situations where I had to pull over and let her use it. There is a travel potty at mothercare that works with dispossable liners. And you will learn to look out for the nearest restroom whereever you go. <em>edited by Lilli34 on 12/07/2012</em>

My LO is only 15 months and I started looking onto this aftermy MIL pointed out that back n the day prior to disposable nappies, he would've been trained by that age. The statistics showed on many sites that prior to the 70s 80 % of toddlers were toilet trained by the age of 18 months, and now it's only 20%. I found that very interesting. Still not sure how I'm going to start though. Mine wears cloth nappies during the day, and I've heard that helps as they know they are wet.... So fingers crossed :)

I started potty training my daughter at 2yrs 5months. I did try earlier but she got scared of the potty and so I backed off. I started in Feb and by April she was completely free of diapers- both daytime and nighttime. I tried all the methods I could think of. At first I left her in diapers and just took her to the potty (I got one that goes over the toilet) on the dot every hour or so. She wouldn't always go but when she did we made a big deal of it. We tried this for a couple of days but I felt like she wasn't quite getting the idea. So I went with her and bought her big girl underwear. She'd wear them a couple of hours in the morning and afternoon but remained in diapers during naps and bedtime and outings. Yet she still was confused and would have quite a few accidents. By then she had started telling me when she needed to go but wouldn't always make it to the potty. So then I started giving her rewards if she told me before she went. That one didn't always work and she'd pretend to need to go to get a treat. The thing that worked best for my daughter was to completely remove diapers from the picture. So she went to sleep, on outings, where ever with only her big girl panties and within 2days she was completely potty trained. Sure I had quite a few messes to clean up and we were running to the toilet every hour but it worked like a charm.