Show your support
We’ve decided to start toilet training properly at age 3, children typically have a better understanding of instructions and can communicate more clearly. From what we’ve seen, most children we know aren’t fully trained by age 2, so we feel confident it will be developmentally appropriate later on.
Thankyou all!! Very fast and helpful responses
I’m waiting for my 2yo 5month to have a better understanding. He has some development delay. All kids develop at different rates. The only tip I have gotten. Is wait until they are ready and then it will happen quickly.
My son was showing signs ie taking off his nappy at childcare. I bought him a cheap potty to put in the lounge room and had him in pull ups to start off with. I asked him every say 30mins if he needed to go. I almost had him trained and then we moved house and had to start from square one. I then introduced a sticker chart and made it for every 5th potty or toilet visit he made that he'd get a small toy or a lolly
My daughter is 18mo, and we've been really slowly working on it since 12mo. Our biggest struggle was communication. Getting her to understand and say the words for pee, poo and toilet/potty. We're good with that now and working on incorporating the toilet/potty throughout the day. I personally, wanted out of nappies asap. But we're taking it all super slowly, and making sure we're not putting pressure on her at all.
Honestly the BEST advice I got from a really experienced daycare educator- try for a week if they don’t get it in that time they aren’t ready. Leave it alone for another month and then try again. We had multiple false starts until 2y 8mo then got it within a fortnight.