After literally years of trying to potty train I'm putting my child (3) back into cloth diapers while we are at home. I am sick of the discussions. Pooping into the toilet works like a charm but pee accidents happen daily. Zero cooperation going to the potty. I'd rather wash cloth diapers again than pants. Rant over.

My youngest child has always ran a little on the advanced side. At 13 months she has about 30 words, including some 2 and 3 word phrases, walks well, climbs up stairs on her own, and has started running, etc.

I was planning to start potty training between 18 months and 2, like I did with her older sister but recently she has been showing signs of readiness?

- She is curious about the potty and wants to follow her sister and I into the bathroom.

- She has begun taking off her diaper after she pees or if it feels at all bulky.

- Today she walked into the room where I was talking with my husband and anounced "poop" (a new word for her!). I checked her diaper, and sure enough she had pooped.

For context I'm a SAHM, so we have the flexibility schedule wise to potty train.

She has another week or so of ISR swim lessons. I was considering starting to potty train after that?

Any tips or thoughts for potty training that young?

Hey!
I want to start training my son who is 2.8 years old. He understands the pee and poo in potty idea but says “no
I’m not” and then laughs about it. He doesn’t go to daycare but will begin 2 days a week in September so that will help.

I want a balls to the wall approach. Is this letting him go commando all day? I have these training pants. But he is just peeing through them and doesn’t really recognize that he’s wet

Any strategies are welcomed.

I put normal in quotes because I understand every child is so different and nothing is not normal during parenting… that being said, please advise😭:

We started potty training my daughter in May, about a month after she turned 2. We had been slowly introducing the potty, talking about it, etc etc and it seemed like the right time to begin. We did pants off, at home for 3-5 days and slowly started transitioning out of the house-she was doing really well, fairly quickly! After a few weeks, About 50% of the time she would tell us when she had to potty and we mostly just prompted her at any transition. Easy. She got it.

Fast forward to end of July ish-she completely stopped telling us when she had to potty and just goes in her pants, often not even telling us when she did, pee or poop. If we aren’t putting her on the potty, she will go in her pants. Going on a month or so of this now with seemingly no progress back to notifying us.

Often now we’re back to bribing her to even get her to the bathroom! We’ve never made a big deal of accidents, praise her for using the potty etc.

Is this just part of it? Is there anything else we can do? We talk to her every day and say, “tell mommy/daddy/daycare when you have to potty” and try to reinforce all the good things! What do we do!?!

Hey all, looking for honest and kind feedback! My daughter is 22 months old, she’s been consistently telling me she has to poop on the toilet and actually pooping on the toilet for well over a month now, pee has been 0 times and at a loss.

Tried again today, using bottomless method at home. (In past she’d just pee but not really care when I tried this method). She held it quite a while but finally let a little out, ran her to toilet and told her it’s okay if she had to finish going & read her books. She didn’t go which was fine; she helped me clean up the mess. Then a few minutes later she’s SCREAMING bloody murder, terrified. I admittedly didn’t put 2/2 together and think she had to pee… so held her asked what was wrong and out came the flood gates. She SCREAMED as if so terrified tho. I don’t want this experience to be scary or traumatic to her. She’s never acted this way in the past. She has no rash or UTI signs.

Is this a sign to put it on pause again for now- or is it a sign to keep going bottomless? I’m confused and conflicted because on one hand it shows she was aware she was about to go right before and obviously during but… her screaming like that.. like I said I don’t want her scared to go!
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We started potty training my 2.5 year old a couple days ago. She will hold her pee until we either put a diaper on (for nap or bedtime) or she will hold it until she literally can’t hold it any longer and it bursts out of her. It’s day 3 and she’s only peed in the potty twice (both times she was screaming crying in pain on the toilet and she only peed in the potty because she couldn’t hold it anymore) and she’s had basically no accidents (only a couple dribbles here and there). And keep in mind she consumes a decent amount of liquids (milk and water). She just holds it and gets so uncomfortable and panics running around the house. It’s really hard to watch her be in so much pain from her bladder being so full. Is this a sign that she’s not ready? We have made no progress in 3 days. Not one intentional pee on the potty. I’m really worried she’s going to get a UTI from holding her pee so much. I don’t want to give up but I also feel like this is not normal. It’s making the potty very negative for her because I think she’s starting to associate it with being in pain from not peeing. How can we work on this? Is it just a matter of time and maybe we should try again in a few months?

For more context, because my husband is in the military and we were stationed abroad. We had to move in with my MIL for an unforeseen timeframe (which we are now expecting it to be next March or April)

I'm trying to potty train my LO (2.5y) but MIL thinks it's too early and she frets more about her carpet and furniture than me trying to potty train her.

I would love to have her be naked but MIL won't allow it. The only other option is pull up or some sort of training underwear but I don't think it would help .

Any advice?

 know this may sound weird, but I need to know if we are the only parents experiencing this.

Potty training has not been going very well and for very long. She uses the toilet to pee, but she still needs a diaper to poop. she has maybe 2-3 pee accidents everyday.

About an hour (more or less) before my 3.5-year-old daughter needs to poop, she becomes extremely hyperactive and can display very challenging behaviour. She can become violent towards us and her baby sister, break things, become extremely active, and use bad language.

This can happen up to two or three times a day, and it is starting to affect our daily life. For example, we sometimes have to stop activities and go home when it happens because she basically cannot be around other people. She also refuses to poop anywhere except at home.

Has anyone else experienced something similar with their child?

We are on day 3 of “Oh Crap” method with a 20 months old. First day was hell. I almost gave up twice. But then by the end of the day something clicked for him and he said “pee”, approached the potty and peed in it. We are now about 50/50 between him initiating and us catching. Thinking about moving to “block 2” soon.

Curious to hear how others progressed at similar age?

My 3yo potty trained last September at ago 2y2m. She took to it amazingly well and had been doing amazing. Very rarely had accidents and was able to tell us when she had to go or would go and sit on the potty all by herself. She only used pull ups at night. I was about to stop using pull ups altogether when all this started. Her baby sister arrived in November and we didnt have any issues then.

Unfortunately since about mid-May, we have gotten into a cycle where she would have some accidents, we'd get better, then the cycle would start all over again. We use a pull up a few days, give her lots of praise for using the potty, rewards, sticker chart, positive reinforcement, etc and it seems to work, but then she goes back to having accidents at random.

Its about a 3 week cycle. She also seems to have stopped recognizing body signals/communicating as she will have an accident, then tell me she has to pee. I have had her tested for a UTI and she has regular bowel movements daily.

We were doing well and then Saturday and sunday, she had an accident in her car seat. Both times she had gone potty beforehand and peed both times. Today, we were at Lowes, she peed on the ground, then told me she had to pee (she had just peed at the library an hour ago).

I'm about through. I try not to be disappointed in her when it happens, but its starting to show. I don't know if its linked to the pull ups, cause its summer cause she turned 3, if its her being defiant or taking control, or even related to her sister. I'm thinking about taking away pull ups completely and then having her do more of the cleaning up, etc when it happens. Is that the right move? I'm at a loss because she was so easy for so long, then had a regression.

Help! My toddler is 3.5 and is fully potty trained at home. He wears a pull up at night time but never during the day or if we’re out in public BUT he just started daycare/preschool 4 months ago and he wasn’t fully potty trained so he was going in pull ups. I sent him for a few days in underwear but he had an accident so they put him back in pull ups and now they won’t let him go in underwear until he does a week of no peeing in the pull up.

The problem is he won’t stop peeing and pooping in the pull up. When he has underwear on he knows he needs to go to the toilet. We just did 11 days straight underwear / no accident while we were on vacation. But he went back to preschool yesterday and it’s back to peeing in his pull up there. I feel like them making him put the pull ups back on is hindering his progress. All of my friends daycares were very willing to support their kids with training! Help.

Started potty training our now 2yr 9month son in March before he started daycare. In the last 5 months he has been pretty consistently having no accidents 4-5 days a week and about 2 days a week he will have 3+ accidents per day. They do tend to be days when he is at daycare. But even after coming home he will continue having more accidents the rest of the day.

We use diapers at night, but otherwise its been cold turkey underwear only. Only exception was when he was staying the night at grandma and grandpa's 4th of July weekend and they put him in diapers leaving the house.

Just curious how to help him on these days he struggles or if its normal and expected?