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Some toddler boys defy the norm of potty training around 3 years old and potty train as early as 2 years old or, for the son of CafeMom imapepper, at 20 months old, as she discusses in her post Anyone ever potty train their little ones this early?? in Advice for Moms.
20 months old! And a boy! AND interested in potty training! Wow!
As mom to a 3-year old boy who, months after a 2-morning stint of peeing on the toilet, has ABSOLUTELY NO interest in potty training, I'm trying not to be too JEALOUS and to be patient with my boy and his timing.
But it's HARD!
Did your son potty train earlier than three years old? Did you prompt him to start or did he decide on his own that he was interested in potty training?
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Comments (42)
Up until my youngest daughter potty trained my experience had been my son was 10 times easier to train then my girls.
He was potty trained just before turning 2 1/2. It was a piece of cake compared to my girls. My oldest daughter was 3 years, 2 months when she potty trained and my middle daughter was 3 years, 8 months.
My youngest daughter was probably the easiest. I waited until she was 2 1/2 to really even mention the potty and then about a month after she turned 2 1/2 I asked her if she wanted to be a big girl. She said yes, we tossed the diapers/pull-ups and within days she was using the potty all the time. That was last November.
My son took a little longer but once I told my husband to show him how (standing up) he was peeing in the potty all the time a couple days later and fully day trained a week later. He wet the bed until he was 7, though (he's 8 now and has the occasional accident).
Both of my boys did. I was pregnant with my 2nd and I started my oldest at 16 months and at 17 months he was peeing in the potty and wearing pull-ups. by 2 he was pooping in the potty and by 3 he was going through the night with no diaper. My 2nd boy was just as early since he saw his big brother do it. I had no problems with it. They had there good days and bad days but I was very consistent with them and it paid off. I now have a baby girl and I am hoping she will do great too!! I have a while for her but I will do the same with her as I did with my boys. I do know that even though your kids are potty trained there will always be a time where you might have to go back-both of my boys had the stomach flu at 3 and 4 years of age and I had to buy diapers for them-they could not control there bowels. Even now at the ages of 7 and 6 there could be a time where they might pee themselves, they haven't but you have to be prepared for theses things. Potty training is a hard milestone and it depends on your child-when you see the signs, go for it!
i would love for my son to potty train early but im not expecting it. with my almost 3 yr old daughter, she started on her own a little bit at 20 months. we started training her when she was 1 month after turning 2. she was fully trained a little after 2.5. my son is almost 19 months and there is no way i could start soon. im expecting to be changing his diapers for another yr! but i'll wait and see if he shows any signs earlier.
Ok no one in my family has waited until 3 years of age to potty train their children, male or female. My cousin, who has 8 children, potty trained her youngest son not long ago at the age of 2. I just potty trained my 3 year old step daughter and I think she was more difficult because she was older. If I had the chance I would have potty trained her ages ago.
Potty train whenever you want but I'm certainly not ever going to wait that long.
Both of my brothers potty-trained early, but they also had the extra incentive of wearing cloth diapers (without a diaper cover). My DS is only 2 and a half and he just finished day time potty training a few months ago. But, he WANTED to go....he hated wearing a diaper so we just bought him so big boy undies, and while we had a lot of accidents at first, he got the hang of it quick.
My son started at 10 months when he started walking and is solely wearing underwear at 2 years now. I'm glad I encoureged him early. I always felt that if they can walk and talk, they can communicate that they have to go.
He did, but has since regressed. He is no longer dry throughout the night and he poops in his pants instead of on the potty. So...who knows now. He showed interest and we went with it. He's a champ at peeing on the potty!
My son is 32 months old and only wears a dipe to bed. I just let him decide when. One day he walked in when I was peeing and said I want to pee on the potty too. I sat him there and he pooped and peed immediately. I just followed his cues at first and then put him in undies. He had accidents for a bout a week mostly with poop. After that he rarely had one. He was about 28 months old when we started. We also cloth diapered. Some people think cloth diapered kids potty train earlier but I don't know if that is true or not.
My twins have shown signs of readiness/interest from the time they were 21 mos old but no true desire to potty train.
We had a couple of good days of training not long ago (although only one was willing to wear underpants) but they got sick and have since lost interest.
They'll be 3 next week and after Thanksgiving I'm going to give it another go. I've switched them from diapers to pull-ups. I've chosen to use pull-ups not so much as a training tool but a transition tool between diapers and underpants.
Wish me luck!
Fully potty trained ds at 1.5. I wasn't interested in the battle of wills involved in late training.