Zone1 What Age Should Kids Be Potty Trained?

[SweetSue92]

Pro tip, let 'em squeal like stuck pigs in their dirty diaper for a while, and they'll get it quicker.....~S~

I'll do you one better.

Get them out of pulls ups and diapers entirely by age three. When they pee and poop in their underwear, make them help clean it.

This is not difficult. It's called parenting.

 

[SweetSue92]

I wish I could tell you all the particulars of the kindergartener we have this year who came to school not trained. I won't, but it's as bad as you can imagine. Parents are clueless.

 

[SweetSue92]

Just get the kid a toy they really want & leave it high on a shelf out of their reach.

Tell them...you can't have that toy...you're still in diapers. Nobody in diapers can play with THAT toy.

They'll be self-potty-trained by 4 months old!

Our daughter, like most little girls, was obsessed with princesses, Barbies, etc. We got her little panties with those characters on them when she was 2.5 and told her "Don't get Barbie wet".

That did it. That's all it took.

 

[SweetSue92]

I was potty trained until I turned 60, now not so much

hahahahah well.....

We have this event at school called "Jump Rope for Heart". All the kids asking the female teachers "come jump with us!". All the teachers who have had babies, "not today sweetie!"

 

[ChristisKing]

I'll do you one better.

Get them out of pulls ups and diapers entirely by age three. When they pee and poop in their underwear, make them help clean it.

This is not difficult. It's called parenting.

I agree that using the toilet is a life skill but I would say three or four myself during the day but at night I would be a little more lenient. Especially since I was a bed wetter through most of my childhood.

 

[SweetSue92]

I agree that using the toilet is a life skill but I would say three or four myself during the day but at night I would be a little more lenient. Especially since I was a bed wetter through most of my childhood.

We don't consider bed wetting or accidents to be not potty trained. We have plenty of accidents at school; we always have extra clothes and are prepared to wipe tears. I once had a kid who wanted to play an instrument so bad he didn't even tell me he had to go.....as he played the pee ran down his leg. Poor guy!

Not potty trained is a kid who cannot use the toilet most of the time.

 

[SweetSue92]

I agree that using the toilet is a life skill but I would say three or four myself during the day but at night I would be a little more lenient. Especially since I was a bed wetter through most of my childhood.

Also I think I remember you saying you have autism. It often takes kids with autism a little longer. We know and expect that too.

 

[ChristisKing]

Also I think I remember you saying you have autism. It often takes kids with autism a little longer. We know and expect that too.

I don't have autism, I have developmental learning disabilities but I was potty trained during the day when I was three or four until I had foster siblings and I reverted for a bit but that's normal.

 

[SweetSue92]

I don't have autism, I have developmental learning disabilities but I was potty trained during the day when I was three or four until I had foster siblings and I reverted for a bit but that's normal.

Oh my apologies. Yeah this is all fine. It's the parents who send kids to kindergarten expecting that we are good to change diapers on 6 yo that is the problem

 

[JoeMoma]

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I would think by three or four years old and maybe still have diapers on at night for a while. This however is just lazy parenting. Kids need encouragement. They're never going to learn without it.

In China - typically - a baby even a month or so old, is placed on a potty every time it appears to be ready to go. It quickly develops an association and by a few months they are trained. You get to a point by six months where 90% of the time when the kid is sat down on the pot it will go.