Welcome to the Potty Training Guide site, your source for hints and tips on potty training your toddler. Potty training your child can be one of the most stressful parts of the early years of bringing up a child, for both parties. That’s why I put together this potty training guide, which provides the basics to follow, and some useful hints and tips to put into action.
We also cover potty training problems, potty training regression, look at a potty training chart and review the latest potty training books. So where to start? How do you know when they are ready, do you decide or do they? Peer pressure comes into play here, so and so at nursery is already out of diapers, so and so only took one week, so and so was dry at only 18 months.
It’s easy to get hung up, here in the competitive world of child rearing, everyone seems that much better than you and everyone’s kids seem more advanced.
If the child is ready he or she can’t tell you – that will come later! Children are able to control their bladder and bowels when they are physically ready, and when they want to be dry and clean. Most children can control their bowel before their bladder.
By the age of two, some children can be dry during the day. By the age of three, nine out of 10 children will be dry during most days.
By the age of four years old most children are reliably dry. Girls typically train around age 18 months to age 2 1/2 years, although I’m sure you have met parents who have successfully potty trained their daughters as early as a year old. For boys it is around age 3 to 3 1/2 but again, this is just an average. Some boys have potty trained at age 2, so just take this as a baseline as to when to introduce a serious potty training guide.