Potty Training - San Antonio,TX

That's the magic question. There is no right age to start. The answer is start when your child is ready. My daughter showed interest in the potty at 18 months, but wasn't actually trained until about 6 weeks before her third birthday. It wasn't until we quit trying so hard to get her trained that it just clicked with her. My 4 year old son was day trained right after he turned 3. We took it real easy with him. He got night trained when he was 3 1/2. We've just started putting our 2 1/2 year old son in underware (at his request) and it's going okay so far. Let the child take the lead.

I would start introducing him to the potty now. Set up his potty with special toys, games, books that are only for use in the potty. It's harded to train boys, I know I have one and all of my friends have girls and their girls trained in noi time. All you have to do is 15 minutes after drinking anything go and place him infront of the potty and have patience, and keep do so until he goes. Now I tried potty training him sitting down but he never went do I finally had the idea to try him standing and it worked, you just kind of have to lean his body towards the potty. Good luck.

Let the child tell you when they are ready. My daughter was interested in learning about the potty starting at 18 months. However, she would try the potty for a while and lose interest. So, we really did not push the issue. We just asked if she wanted to go potty on the big potty (she did not like the baby potty). Once she figured that part out (about 2 1/2 yrs old) she did great.... but had a fear of Poo Poo'ing on the potty. Until her day care moved her up a age group, then she watched everyone else, and in about week we were done.... for her her 3rd Bday was the magic day - since then she has been waking up dry and staying dry all day, even on our outings.

However, my nephew is three days younger - and refuses.... he is against the whole concept - so we are only encouraging and asking, but not pushing or punishing.

Let them take their time, just encourage and ask... My daughter got a reward (2 M&Ms) everytime she went potty -

Good luck - be patient and you will do great....

We started training our son when he was about 2 1/2. He wasn't interested at all before then. He would pee in the potty when we put him on it, but would never tell us when he had to go. Then, he eventually got better at it and finally started pooping in the potty. He is now 3 1/2 and we are finally getting a hang of staying dry all night. Some nights are good, and some nights are bad. But, he is completely trained during the day. We never have any accidents anymore. My other son just turned 2 and is interested in sitting on the potty like big brother, but he never has done anything yet. They are all different, and usually take an interest, and then loose interest for a while. Just realize that it is a gradual process that takes a while for them to master. I've heard that girls are easier than boys and do it quicker, but my daughter is only 8 months old. Anyway, good luck.

Boys, as a rule, are later to "finish" than girls... but they're easier to train to pee if you're ok with peeing in the great outdoors.

I started with my son at 2, he wasn't ready - he would pee on a tree, but we stuck with diapers until 3, when we tried again - #2 was easy to train, because he got an awful burning sensation if he went in his diaper (food sensitivities), but he did not fully potty train on #1 until a month before his fourth birthday.

To be fair: my definition of potty trained is HIM telling ME when he needs to go. He was able to pee pee on command every hour or so at 3 - I just wasn't consistent at telling him to try every 30 minutes, he didn't tell me, and he was no good at holding it.

He's four now and we still use pull ups at night - but he's dry about half the time in the morning.

All children are different, but typically boys start a little later than girls- their muscles which help control take a little longer to develop. Usually you just take cues from the child my boys were all trained at different ages 26 months, 28 months and 36 months but they all did really well once they got the concept and had very few accidents and no difficulty doing #2 which seems to be a problem for alot of people.

Each child is diffrent but some where about 18 months to 2 and a half. Maybe start by sitting on potty or get kiddos potty. Then stay a little longer. ( if avaiable and comfortable same sex parent can show example) Do dispear if it does not go so well. My first son we started at 2 ,then I gave up for a few month because he cried and peed in his pants. I started again closer to three and by 3 1/2 he just started going one day. He is four and a half now,proudly done...phew. Ped doc said long as they are potty trained by four it's really normal specially for boys..aiming and knowing when to sit and stand.