Parents...at what age did you get your youngsters potty-trained?

I have a friend who CLAIMS 18 months (I'm dubious).
My 10-year-old (son) was trained at 3,and the baby (turned 3 in January)shows no interest whatsoever.
I'm getting a wee bit (pun intended) anxious.
Any idears??

And that was with cloth diapers and one caregive all day (me) which is pretty much the ideal potty training situation normally. I really didn't stress it, after all he wasn't going to take a load of diapers off to college. :shrug:

I'm pretty low key about the whole potty training thing, but then start to think about it when I see a thread or when someone brings it up. My 3 1/2 year old has shown some interest, but hasn't really gone on the toilet yet. The twins who will be two next Thursday don't have a clue, but if the older one does it I'm sure they will be right behind. I just don't stress it because they are with me all the time and they will learn eventually. Knowing that LeftyKid picked it up at age four makes me feel a lot better for some reason :)

My thought on it was that I wasn't about to waste my time on sticker charts or throwing cheerio targets into the toilet or putting betsy wetsy dolls on the potty or whatever the latest trick was. He knew where the potty was, had tried it a few times, and wasn't crazy about diapers. Knowing LeftyKid I knew the last thing I wanted to do was make a battle of wills about it so I just left the potty in the bathroom and let him use it when he was ready. It worked out fine.

My guess is when your oldest figures it out the younger two will be quick to follow, wanting to be big and grown up like he is and all.

I certainly wasn't going to clean up after them for however long it took.

Once they decided, that was it. No accidents. Even at night.

BTW, the 18month thing is a myth more than likely. Mom is trained, not the child.

3-1/2 or so before we stopped having accidents.

And she still sometimes wets at night, though that's rare now. She's recently turned 4.

It's been so long now and they're all grown up but my two sons always had to copycat whatever their daddy did and they demanded to learn how to use the big potty.

Edit - They needed help but they told us when they had to go. It was later when they would go by themselves.

Completely trained with no night accidents, just over 3 years old.

is still working on it, now that I think about it.

night-trained now at 3 years, 9 months. No more diapers or pull-ups, in any case. She wets about one night in 10 for us, which isn't too bad.

(We do have a rule, though -- she can't come into our room in the middle of the night or in the morning without sitting on the toilet first. If nothing happens, fine. She's never wet our bed, thankfully.)

The 16 month old thinks the toilet exists just so he can flush toys. The thought of him being trained in two months is quite amusing.

trained 3 1/2..just before preschool entrance (that motivated us)

He said, "Ok. I'm a big boy now. I'll use the potty." He used the toilet instead of a chair and had 0 problems.

My younger one was 3 as well; but he was terrified of any toilet that wasn't in his house. The kid would hold it in for hours if necessary.
He finally got over it when we took a trip several hours away and stayed in a motel. He hadn't gone all day; and I was starting to hurt just knowing how full his poor little bladder had to be. I slept with him, but didn't really sleep, because I was afraid he'd wet the bed.

At about 12:30 am, he started talking in his sleep, "G-O spells GO!" My eyes popped open and I got him in the bathroom as quickly as I could. He must have stood there for 5 full minutes emptying out! It was amazing. Anyway, he didn't have any problem after that.

A very concerted effort and she was trained in no time.Took her in bathroom with me acouple of books for her a magazine or newspaper for me and she caught on in no time.

My first child was potty-trained during the day a couple months before he turned 3, but still needed pull-ups at night until after 5.
Second child completely trained himself, day and night, by age 2.5.
Third child *finally* is out of diapers within the past month, at 3.5. The youngest has by far been the most difficult.

Hang in there as far as your 3-year-old showing no interest whatsoever. My 3-year-old (turned 3 in November, so a couple months older) showed absolutely no interest whatsoever either and I posted similar things about my anxiety on a parenting board. If you would've asked me six months ago I thought he was going to be in diapers until kindergarten, but now he's got it. We had to wait for it to "click".

The first two were in cloth diapers and I don't know if that made them learn sooner, or if it's that my youngest has a far more stubborn personality than the others.

I'm not referring to anyone here, but I've observed it in family members and other people I've known. I distinctly remember some people whose kids were still wearing pull-ups at nearly age 3, but years after the fact the parents told people the kids were potty trained at 18 months. :eyes: I suspect that they were counting the age at which they took their kids out of diapers and switched to either pull-ups or underwear and just dealt with frequent "accidents" rather than when the kids truly were potty trained.

my son at 18 months. By the age of 2 1/2 he was no where near getting trained. He seemed to be totally unaware of what went on below his waste. Stop playing to pee?....no way! But, just after he turned 3 he suddenly got it. It was like the "potty training fairy" zapped him one night. I put him to bed one night when he was not trained and the next morning he was not only trained, but never had a "accident". The children of those I knew who claimed to have gotten their children trained a lot earlier, still had "accidents" as old as 4. But, with my son--one day he was no where near being trained---and the next day he had it down to a science. Don't listen to other parents. Every child is different. That little light bulb in their heads has to come on at the same time thier bladder muscles get strong.

a couple hours after when he was born he read Aristotles Metaphysics and mastered Kendo, and that was just in one day.