Please share your experiences.
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The age you began training.
Whether it was your first experience or not and the difference between the experiences.
Reasons it failed and you had to return to Diapers
What finally made it work
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Started at 2year mark.....he wasnt interested at all....
kept on trying after every few months.....but he just didnt like to to sit on the potty.....not even for a second....I tried stickers charts sweets books....but they were of no use.....
I tried again when he was 2years and 10months old....n he started asking to go to pee by himself at the very first day.....on our regular toilet......
its been a month now that he goes to pee by himself or asks whenever he wants to....but doesnt tell or like to sit for longer, waiting for poop....
tons of accidents had happened tons of laundry.....he is still in his pjs at home all day....but I have to take him whenever he makes weird face expressions and let him sit for a longer period of time....its so hard but he'll learn it eventually IA.....
He still wears diapers at night....but not at naptime....
he will be 3years old by the end of this month....
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The most helpful thing that made it work (with MY son)was HIS interest! I never forced him because I knew he would never do/learn anything by force.....
he wasnt even interested in picking pjs/pants and underwears when I took him to shop for pottytraining......so the only thing left was his own approval of doing it......
Oh and stock up on lots of trousers/pajamas.....I had 7 of them before I started....and then bought 7 more......plus I also used the ones he grew out of.....
first few days were stressful but now after a month he stays in one pj throughout the day and sometimes 2-3 per day when he forgets to tell me or if I am busy in kitchen or some work and he couldnt reach me....
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When they are ready, it takes three days! It was the best advice given to me.
I started at 2.5 years, he would sit on the potty for hours, read books, play with trains but no pee or potty. He would hold it for hours until I put the diaper on. I had a newborn to take care as well so I gave up after two days.
I kept talking bout it though.. Asking if he wanted to sit on the potty on and off but he refused.
At 3 years and 10 days, visiting family in Pakistan, my sister got the potty for him and just put him on it when it was time to poo. 5 mins later he did it. We made a huge deal of it, danced, kissed him, hugge him.. Flushed it together blah blah. We said good bye to diapers, he had probably 3-4 accidents , day 2 he had 2 accidents abd by day 3 he was not only telling during the day but at night too. I kept the diaper on him at night while we were in Pakistan but w have stopped that here. He has had some accidents if he got busy playing but that was only within first couple of weeks. We are now working on using public toilets abd it's a process.
In a nut shell, try but don't push it. when he is ready, it will be easy peasy :-)
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I have the opposite experience from a nephew and niece. The mums waited for "when the child is ready". Started about 3 years but by then the kids were clever enough to know that it was just easier to do it in the diaper esp if they were busy playing or watching cartoons. They are just now reliably dry in the day time at 5 years and still not dry at night.
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Not even going there until he’s 3!!! 
I really believe you’ll know when he’s ready though. Don’t rush it 
I'm being pushed into it :(
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The age you began training. Whether it was your first experience or not and the difference between the experiences. Reasons it failed and you had to return to Diapers What finally made it work
I believe I was 3
That was my first experience, as I was recently born
grabbing the lota and pouring water was just too difficult
My family refuse to supply any more diapers, and my Pre-K teacher sent me back home for soiling the chair
3 yrs ... Before that its a little difficult, so yeah no use of wasting your time.
I started at 2.. Didn't happen, gave up. Tried again on and off. He was fully potty trained at 3.
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I think it all depends on the child...take your cues from your kid, and you'll know if they are ready or not. I had one fully potty trained the week after he turned 2 (nights also!), one who was fully trained the week after his 3rd birthday (took about 5 days) and one who was almost 3.5 before potty training finally clicked and then it only took 2 days.
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Dont stress about it Demi and tell everyone clearly that he will be trained sooner or later.......not every kid is same....just keep on trying every few months.....
I tried on and off from when he turned 15 months...and from 13ish months i was washing his bum on the toilet, so he kinda got the hang of it beijg on the toilet. When i was in Pakistan my in-laws really tried to push me to potty train him but i knew he wasn't ready...plus with being in a new environment, then coming back i was pretty sure it would fail. I properly started him when we came back... one month before he turned 2. It took him about 2-3 weeks and he was fully potty trained.
I kept him in cloth shorts.. made him drink loads of water and juice & forced him on the potty every 20-30 mins. There were a few accidents at first, but he got the hang of it. I rewarded him each time he told me he had to go potty. And when he missed it, i didn't get angry but i defo made him feel like everyone was disappointed (grandparents, hubby and i etc). U have to really have a time where ur doing nothing and full attention is on baby... cos sometimes he would get his poop-face on or i could tell he was abt to pee and i'd see it and rush him to the potty. When i didn't... he did it on the floor lol. And once he sat on the toilet and saw himself doing his business he started going... "yuck yeh ganda hota hai... yeh toilet mai hota hai"... and it's been like about 3-4months... he's had i think 3 accidents. I think i'm also lucky cos everyone told me night potty training is the worst, my SIL wakes up her 3 year old, whos crying in the middle of the night every night cos he has to pee otherwise he'd do it on the bed....but ever since my son was abt a year old...whenever he woke up in the morning his diaper was always dry. So i had no issue there.. he wakes up and first thing i do is set him on the toilet so he can pee.
Honestly, it's not as daunting as it seems. U just have to be really vigilant and patient. When i started him @ 15 months i was like omg this is impossible, and cos i did it so early it really did seem crazy. Just make sure he's ready.
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when people talk about being potty trained does that mean the kid goes to the washroom him/herself and cleans up whenever he/she needs to go?
^ No, that happens over time cos for a while i think they're too small to physically do all of that. U teach it along the way... but the main part i believe is when the child tells you "i have to pee", goes to and uses the toilet properly. My son can take his pants off but getting up on the toilet and cleaning himself is still hard for him.
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That's what they need to do if they are going top re school and being potty trained is a requirement. But I didn't sweat it if he/ she still needed help in there, I would make them go before we went to school. As long as the kid was not wearing diapers the school would accept them.
when people talk about being potty trained does that mean the kid goes to the washroom him/herself and cleans up whenever he/she needs to go?
He knows he has to sit in toilet and be washed. Knows it's use too. Pooed in it first time ever few days ago and I made a huge deal out of it. He's been trying ever since. I sit him in it first thing. He's two almost in a month
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my mom said that ever since me and my siblings could sit up, my mom would put us on those small potty thingies first thing in the morning and turn the tap water on. She would put us on it again in an hour if we didn't go the first time and keep doing that every 2 hours for 5 mins or so. Eventually, we would only go if we were put on the potty and heard the water. She said she never used diapers after we were about 8 months as we rarely had accidents and none of us ever wet the bed. She says by the time we were 2, we knew exactly what to do.
I'm pleased to report he poops on the flush now. I just have been maintaining that we poo on flush and telling him that needs to happen on flush.