What age did you start potty training?

I understand exactly what you're going through. My son was almost completely potty trained by 16 months- maybe 1 accident every day or two. Then he had a febrile seizure, and is absolutely refusing to even sit on the potty. He knows when he is going, but I cannot get him to go on the toilet anymore- he kicks and screams when I try to put him on. It's really frustrating- especially after you spent so much time training them. But I figure you could always "wait longer cuz she might regress"-then she'll be 5 and not trained, I say GO FOR IT! :) Try to train her now! It certainly cant hurt. Cleaner for her-less diapers for you. Good luck!!

my oldest fully trained (day and night) by the time she turned three. althought my son turned 3 in may and he will pee on the potty but will not poop. i have tried everything i could think of, everything friends could think of and everything the dr said to try. i have been trying for over a year now and i just can't get him to go. i even bought a diego potty seat thing. he will not use a potty he has to sit on the toilet but he needs that thing that makes the hole in the seat smaller so his butt don't fall him.

Just keep at it. She may regress. Don't worry about it, keep on with the potty training. My middle daughter is autistic. I had her pee trained but could not get her to understand that she could also poop in the potty chair. She was pretty much non-verbal at that time and it was harder for her to make the connection. I couldn't say "go in the potty". I had to show her. Now you may think my solution is horrible or a great idea. I've been both praised and chastised over it, but it worked for me. I used baby laxative suppositories and her favorite candy-gum. When she produced something she got a piece of gum. It took a bit and there were setbacks when she got diarrhea but eventually she got the idea. The key is patience. I had this book: http://www.pottytrainingconcepts.com/Potty-Training-in-One-Day/Toilet-Training-in-Less-Than-a-Day.htm It was written with special needs children in mind but it gives some good advice. It claims to be able to train any child of any mental ability. I don't think they tested it on autistic kids. Anyway! Keep with it!

I was reading your discussion with great interest, mainly because my daughter is 19 months and I was thinking of getting her trained soon. From what I read here, maybe my daughter is ready. She can't talk that much yet. But she will squat whenever she needs to wee or poop. And she knows how to take off her diapers if she is not wearing any bottoms like shorts or skirts. I think you should not wait too long. Maybe she still remembers how to do it.

I have no children so I'm probably not the one to give you advice. My niece pretty much potty trained herself. I think she was about 3. She was in daycare & wanted to wear pretty pink Barbie panties like the big girls did. So her Dad explained what she needed to do to wear the pretty pink Barbie panties & she started going to the potty because she did NOT want to wear diapers anymore. She did go through a short backslide along the way. When she did, my brother put her back in diapers. He said she cried & he told her in order to wear big girl panties she had to STOP wetting her panties. She said OK & did. I give my niece total credit for training herself but it might give you an idea or two that you haven't thought of. GOOD LUCK!!!

My son was three when he started using Potty on his own.He used to refuse to go to toilet and did in his diapers.When he joined school he automatically left his habit.I think you should wait till your child goes to school.Kids are smart these days.They tell us when they want to learn rather we tell them when to do it.

all the signs are there for your daughter to go to the potty. She is ready and shouldn't regress since she is telling you by herself. Jut get rid of the diapers and nay pull ups and she will probably be trained in no time. All 4 of my kids were trained by the time they were 2 1/2. We took them every time any one had to fgo so it took little time to get them going buy them selves.

My child is 18 months and we started at about 14 1/2 months. We do okay some days. The reason I started so early is because she knows how to pull here diaper off when she uses it and will also go get her box of wipes and a clean diaper, and tell me that she boo boo, lol. So we just take it one day at a time.

A bit of regression after sickness or a growth spurt is normal. You should have put her back on as soon as the sickness had passed. Definitely do it now. She was ready before, she is ready now. My first was trained at 28 months, mostly because I was pregnant with her little sister and didn't want to deal with the mess while highly pregnant. It took us a month, but she was done. Our second was trained at 26 months. We had started at 18 months and she was doing well until she fell into the little toilet they have for the kids at the mall (she absolutely wanted to do it without help because her feet touched the ground, lol). We had to start over from scratch because now she was terrified of even her little potty:( Our third we started at 18 months, too. But being a boy, the pee went everywhere and it took us a while to teach him that inside the potty was the right place, lol. He also was a bit big for the little potty. Anyhow, he was completely trained at 24 months. Some kids are ready early, just like yours, some are ready late. With the early ones, as I said before, some regression is common, when major growth spurts occur (bladder fullness misjudgement) or they were sick (especially stomach bugs). If I were you, I would definitely go for it. Being diaper free is such a relief!

I just finished potty training my last child and he is 3 1/2. My other 3 all trained all at different times anywhere from 2 to 3. They were all girls and my last is a boy so I don't know if that is why he took longer but each child is different. You can try but if she is not ready I wouldn't push it. I find that kids that are forced to learn end up having more accidents later on. I have been real lucky and once my kids got trained they were really good. The only problem I have now is that my little guy goes potty and then comes out of the bathroom and hands you his pants and underware. We are trying to tell him that he needs to put his clothes on and I have a fear that in another month when he starts preschool he will be handing his underware to his teacher!

if the physical,cognitive and behavioral signs are already there, there's no way she'll regress again. the ability to sit for more than a minute in the potty and verbalizations that she has to go are among these signs. im sure she'll do fine this time =) happy potty training!