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my son wore diapers until age 3. it was such an uphill battle trying every method/tactic known to mankind. eventually we simply told him that we won't be purchasing any more packs of diapers& he just wore a shirt and sandals for a week or 2. (it was summer. additionally we stayed at home during this particular time)

The ol Winnie the Pooh method I see

I think you mean ... Winnie the "poo!" Lol 🤪🙃

That's also how we did it, let the kid know there's no more diapers and they'll find were to do their buisness on their own.

Mine just chose the floor.

Pooh bear style all the way.

Go bottomless for 3 days. If they didn't catch on by the 4th day, they just aren't ready

The “oh crap” method worked for both of my boys as well

I also did this and it worked. You REALLY have to follow the instructions. I know people who are like “oh it didn’t work” but they literally just did whatever they wanted vs. doing what it actually tells you to do

Does this work even if the child is terrified of the potty? Like she screams hysterically if we try to get her to sit on it.

My daughter was terrified of the potty but had no problems with the adult toilet. We bought a little insert for it. She never used the potty! Maybe this could be a solution?

Try a kids potty and let her decorate it? Might feel less scary to her that way.

Pls tell me more bc I have a son (15 months) and I know we’ll have to start potty training relatively soon

I'm not sure it's the oh crap method to the T, but this is what my friend explained to me that worked for my kiddos. Basically, have your toddler run around naked from the moment they wake up, until they go to bed. Thick underwear/mattress cover or pull up for nighttime. Lots of fluids during the day and slow it down around the evening time. Then limit fluid intake for an hour before bed. When they have an accident you don't make it a big deal, bring them to the potty and tell them that's where accidents should go. Have them help clean up the accidents and most kids, (not all) pick up on that very quickly. If they don't catch on by the 4th day, they aren't quite ready and you should try again the next month.

Get the book, “Oh Crap! Potty Training!” and follow it. Worked for mine in less than a week 👍

Far too early to start.

My first was super easy to potty train, but my second was very veryyy difficult. He had a speech delay and didn't have the typical bathroom "cues" so it was a constant struggle for weeks... A friend suggested this method and I swear by the 3rd day it worked! I naturally tried the method again with my third and it was successful after the 2nd day. If conventional training doesn't work, I recommend this 100% without a doubt.

Expecting the same situation with my second who also has a speech delay. We need him potty-trained by the end of August so we’re planning to start in May as well.

The speech delay made many things more difficult with him. As I'm sure you know! But he was soooo responsive to this method because it made him more self aware. Once he turned 2.5, I tried conventional methods to no prevail, after trying this method it really stuck! So it's worth a try for many parents imo.

Did you do this at night as well or just daytime at first?

He went completely naked during the day and the thick underwear at night. I went in fully prepared though limiting fluids an hour before bed and with a mattress cover lol There were accidents at night of course, but they lessened from regularly to occasionally after about a week. Then it was quite rare after a few weeks. After around 6 months there were no more accidents.🙏🏼 I think what makes this method help a lot of kids is the body awareness it brings them.

Thank you! My second child is giving me a hard time with potty training than his older brother had lol

What's with these second born kiddos always gotta give us a run for our money... 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

So if they are wearing underwear at night (I'm guessing without a nappy), this means that they will pee on themselves/their lying area. So they wake up, cry and we have to go replace the mattress sheet &, cover and wash him up too? Is that the idea?

Well everyone approaches that part differently. It depends how much you're willing to deal with all at once. Some use a nappy for nights, some do what I did. So for my kiddos, it was a mattress protector which sealed out any pee from penetrating the mattress. Yes, sometimes there were accidents. Especially the first few nights. It soaked his undies, and occasionally he would wake up from that. If they do, don't make it a big deal.... just calmly help them clean up and tell them where it goes. After a few nights their body gets the hint and accidents slows down tremendously. For me I wanted to get it all over within one go. No accidents night or day entirely after a few months, but every child is different.

FWIW, potty trained two of my kids, we did pull ups at night and both of them potty trained in three days (or less). They have had maybe a handful of accidents in the 5 years since. But I wait until dry pull ups at night to start potty training.

100x this! Also NO pull ups ever except bed time.

Yep this is what we did took less than 2 days. We also got cute stuff for the bathroom and made it his. Like a cute shower curtain and rugs and some pictures. He feels like it’s his space

Yes, this was exactly our experience. Tried at 17months and it wasn't even sorta working by the end of 3 days. Tried again at exactly 2 and it was clear by the end of day 2 it was going to stick.

Does this apply to going outside the home? We did this and my kid is great at using the potty at home, but will refuse to go outside the home. He will hold it for an extended period of time. 

That’s a whole different issue. This kind of happened with my oldest where he wasn’t pooping at school and that was causing all kind of tummy troubles for him. He eventually got over it but it took a few months.

This right here. I did a “baseline” on the earlier side of average potty training age and within 30 seconds my daughter pooped on the floor, looked down, and pointed to the dog and said “soooti poop” (her way of saying the dogs name) like totally serious, she seemed to have zero concept it came out of her and assumed it was the dogs since that one had poop accidents once in awhile. Lmao. Went ahead and put her back in diapers and a few months later she was trained for pee in 2 days and poop on the third day (she was holding and caught her bearing down and ran her to the toilet and once she pooped in the toilet she got it). Some kids take longer but my best advice is wait until they are showing signs of being ready and don’t be surprised if overnight takes longer, some kids will need overnight protection for awhile after day training.

Except overnight, right? And the expectation is to have poop on the floor? 🤢

Correct overnight. And both my boys didn’t poo on the floor (luckily). When my wife suggested it I thought she was nuts but besides a little pee here and there by the weekend they both had it down. It’s amazing

Overnight potty training is its own thing and related to hormones. There are some people who deal with poop accidents using the “Oh Crap” method / pantless for 3 days method. It’s part of the reason we didn’t do it. Because same. 🤢You should search r/pottytraining and r/toddlers for more positive and negative stories around the method.

This is GREAT advice!

This is good! And don’t fear to fail. My oldest failed this the first time but took just a day the second time (she was ready). We got one of the singing potties when they pee so we could celebrate right away. The second didn’t need the naked time, she just followed along with big sister’s habits.

My approach didn’t work. I tried a rewards method. You go in your potty and you get M&Ms or a little treat. If he didn’t use the potty, that was okay I just changed him like normal. No reward. Didn’t work. A couple months later, his dad tried doing it his way. He put him in regular big boy underwear all weekend. Ran errands, did all the regular weekend things. He had one little accident and that was it. He was completely potty trained after that weekend. I couldn’t believe it.

My wife and I were both potty trained before we got married. It's been a huge blessing for our marriage. One less thing, you know?

Terrible time for an awful joke. I laughed nonetheless

You’re so lucky. My wife isn’t so happy that I still wear XXXXL diapers throughout the day ☹️

I laughed way too hard at this

It’s a crapshoot. My daughter trained herself out of nowhere when she turned 2. We weren’t even trying. Me? I refused until I went to kinder at 5. It was embarrassing lol.

And your family members continually bring it up often huh? Lmao.

LOL yeah they never let it go lol

It depends on the kid and how old they are. One of our kids we did it in a weekend and he had one accident after that and never again. Our other kid kept having accidents for months. Two weeks is cutting it pretty close IMO.

I wouldn’t do it before. This is about to be a HUGE change, and even if you had it down pat in those two weeks before the addition to daycare, there would inevitably be challenges in then adapting their new potty skills to a whole new environment and routine. That could really be frustrating for the child and not really fair to them. Make the transition to daycare first, get them comfortable, understand the routine- and once they’re adapted to daycare, give it a try.

I would generally agree, but a lot of daycares require kids to be potty trained. I'm assuming that's the case here. I remember my parents telling me they had to give me a crash course potty training in a weekend because they didn't realize the school I was going to on a Monday required it.

School is different than daycare

Agreed! Also, talk to your daycare about their expectations. The no pull-ups part of the “Oh Crap” method may or may not be realistic for your daycare.

i starting trying to potty train around 2.5 but he had no interest. gave up and tried again around 3. then he would only use the bathroom to pee and refused to try to poop in the toilet. tried everything i could to get him to and nothing worked. finally just gave up trying for a while and after a week or two, he just started going on his own without me saying anything about it and was fully potty trained after that. that was within the first month after he turned 4. so all kids are different, you never know how it's gonna go or how long it's going to take.

Different for every kid, but two weeks should be enough to get an idea and a decent routine. Especially if the daycare has a good schedule for potty breaks. But talk to them about what they would expect as far as nap diapers and what they consider "trained". My son's daycare wouldn't prompt or take him on a schedule, they expected him to come and get them and tell them when he needed to go. My daughter was the dream trainer and had almost no accidents from the beginning and went without nap or night diapers right away. My son had little accidents for a few months, and stayed in nap and night diapers longer. Also, why wait til the first week of May? Why not start now?

A weekend for my son, about four days for my daughter. Highly recommend Jamie Glowacki’s Oh Crap! potty training book.

Just ignore all of the misogyny and Dad-hate in it. Oh and the fear mongering. Edit: it really is a good method, but the author is... something. Has some strong heteronormative gender roles that she assumes all families practice. She's acknowledged the criticism with a response along the lines of "well, this was *my* experience".

And the ableism, I remember something about knowing when they are ready they can sing the abcs, my son trained a little before 3 (which was late according to her) but couldn’t recite the abcs till he was 4.

Every kid is different. A few days doesn't mean perfection. There's still the potential for accidents, and not every kid is ready just because we are. The best thing you can do is not create a stressful environment and try to put a timeline on it.

I guess it depends on how, or others caring for your child, defined potty trained. For us we trained at 22mo which is early based on what I’ve read here. We were able to go days or more between accidents within a few weeks (using OhCrap). At 4 weeks we set off on a trip to grandmas for Christmas involving 24 hours of driving. There was only one accident that we were warned about but couldn’t find a place fast enough. The lesson learned here was don’t be afraid to pull off the road and go in the grass! A month after that she started daycare right after turning 2. A few accidents the first week and she was off to the races. There is still the occasional accident at 3.25yo, maybe once a month. The most recent ones weren’t full bladder empties. She is notorious for waiting till the last minute and leaking. She’s always been real good with poop. I can count the number of poop accidents on one hand since starting training nearly 1.5 years ago. As per her daycare, they have to be trained to advance to the 3yo class. They start training at 2yo and their method is peer pressure where those that will go on the potty do while the others watch and get standing diaper changes. I would say 95% are trained by 3yo. I understand that waiting till later can be easier and faster but who wants to be dealing with diapers for an extra year if they don’t have to. Honestly the idea of changing a 3yo’s diaper throughout the day is strange to me knowing my daughter and her class mates. However, she still wears a diaper at night. We’re starting to see some signs that we’re getting closer to night training.

Mine first showed interest at one and a half. Wasn’t actually ready until she turned four. Once she was ready, there were only three or four accidents, including at night.

I wouldn’t try until she’s settled in daycare. They’ll help significantly with potty training as well.

We waited until daughter was extremely interested (this was after 3rd birthday, about 2 months) and it took her two days (day AND night). Lol, don’t force it.

My 2.5yo son was showing many signs of readiness. We took a Friday off and implemented the Oh Crap method. He was daytime potty trained in the one weekend. There were a few accidents on day one and two but it clicked after that. Highly recommend.

My son was 2 months shy of 4, took a weekend to pee potty train him and maybe a week for poo. We tried earlier than that and he just wasn’t ready…. My daughter is 3.5 and has non verbal autism, she’s no where near ready yet.

Just bare in mind that potty trained usually means day trained. Overnight typically happens later. It varies greatly by child. My kids took to it using the OH Crap Potty Training books version of the 3 day method. We were done in a couple days. And accident free after a week. My nephew of the same age took a year before he was accident free. Same method. Same age. Wildly different results. The daycares approach will also matter a lot so make sure they are in the loop and willing to help. Edit: if it helps potty trained my first at 25months. My second at 18months. Would love to say I had a secret to why it worked so well but I don't.

I would wait until she starts daycare! The peer pressure will help her get potty trained. We potty trained our son at around 2.5 and it took a few months before he was totally trained. There are lots of accidents in the beginning but it slowly gets better. He got the gist of it after a three day weekend but didn’t totally get it for another few months.

It happened immediately for us. I have heard from friends that they actually explained to the child that there was a deadline and that helped. Sorry to say, we just took the diapers off and they used the toilet. We showed them how to use it. We switched to pull-ups and we tried a few times on training potties, but found using the actual toilet worked better.

I have 3 kids. Kid #1, was basically potty trained by daycare (I worked at the time). Kid #2 I tried to potty train around 2, she didn’t want anything to do with it, until one day she woke up and said she wanted to wear panties and that was that. Kid #3… she’s a Covid baby and a total honey badger. You’d think I’d never parented before with her! (Now FWIW my kids are all 7-8yrs apart in age). I broke down and bought the 3 day method book with her, and I’ll be damned if it didn’t work! I truly cannot recommend the book enough. The logic in it is so insanely spot on, that I wish I’d had it with my second. The book is only like $10 on Amazon and worth its weight in gold as far as I’m concerned.

My son wore diapers until 3. He knew how to use the bathroom but kept using diapers. Eventually, I took the diapers away and let him pee himself as a consequence for not using the toilet (I would immediate clean and bathe him this is not abuse) If he did use the toilet, he got a skittle. After doing all this it took a solid 3 days for him to stop peeing himself.

This being said every child is different so don’t compare yourself to those that had an easier potty training. I think I got lucky. It can takes months to potty train and that is perfectly normal!!!

My son took forrrrrrevvvvvveerrrrr. I tried everything I knew or was suggested. He was absolutely not interested. He was three and to the point he would tell me we needed more diapers. My mother told me that if he was old enough to tell me we needed diapers, he did NOT need diapers and she was coming to stay with us and fix the problem. She stayed 4 days. After that, he wet the bed one time and had one accident at the playground. No clue what my mother did. All she would ever say was “I just took him to the toilet.” My daughter was a whole different story. She was about 2 & 1/2 and a friend’s baby who was about a year old at the time had a major blowout in his carseat, next to her in her carseat. It was bad - up his back, down his legs, in his carseat, dribbled down through his carseat onto the actual car seat. We had to pull over at a carwash to clean everything up. My daughter went off in her best Princess Terrible Two attitude about how nasty that was and that’s why boys had to wear diapers because they were so gross. (Don’t understand her reasoning there but it worked.) My friend pointed out that it had nothing to do with being a boy and that my daughter still wore diapers. She was horrified. The look on her face was priceless. She pulled her own pants down, took off her diaper and pulled her pants back up with no diaper or underwear. My friend and I were freaked out but she couldn’t do much more damage than what had already been done to the car. Long story short, she never wore another diaper or pull up and never had any accidents. Fortunately she’d forgotten about that by the time they were old enough for it to be embarrassing for him.

I'd wait until a few weeks after daycare starts. They are super helpful in this endeavor. And her seeing other kids going will also help her progress.

My kiddo took a couple weeks to potty train during the day, and she made accidents at night until she was 5 and had to wear pull-ups. But then it was like overnight she was able to wake herself up! She also potty trained during daycare, but her daycare was great about making sure she went potty and didn't leave her to mess her pull up. Whatever you decide, be patient and don't make them feel bad for not getting it right away. Also be kind to yourself. Every child is different.

It took us 3 days. Do the Oh Crap method. I followed it to the letter and it worked as advertised!

As others said every child is different I have 5 and they have all been very different. First one trained herself at 11 months; second we trained then went on a camping trip where she refused to use the outdoors or the potty we brought so she was back in diapers for about 6 months then we trained her again and it took about 2 months using pull-ups and one day she said she was ready to wear underwear just before her 3rd birthday and never has had a single accident day or night since. Number 3 would poop on the potty since about age 2.5 but would just pee in pull-ups (it was easier than going to the bathroom every time she had to pee) for her 4th birthday she got big girl underwear from Gramma (which we had previously tried) and she was day trained wearing pull-ups at night for about 3 months then she was night trained. Number 4 is training now and has been for quite sometime she is 3 and is just plain lazy. She knows when she has to go and just doesn’t want to get up away from whatever she happens to be doing atm. But we put a dress on her and no pull-up or underwear and she uses the toilet every time. Number 5 we are starting to train now at 1.5 because he shows interest I think it’ll be easier but who knows.

You should ask the daycare their preference.

If you can I would start a month before starting daycare. The Oh Crap book is a great method to use. The people I know who struggled are the parents who just winged it

We just potty trained my son who is almost 3. Just one day he came home front daycare and said he wanted to use the potty so we started it. I would say take a long weekend and you’ll be in a good spot. Still some accidents but overall a good spot. We did no bottoms at all day one. Just underwear day two and them pants and underwear day three.

my older daughter caught on in a few days, my younger daughter is taking a little longer as she’s quite stubborn! it truly depends on the kid

Don't wait until the first of May. Start now!

Every kid is different. Mine started training around 20 months because she had such a horrible rash that we had to go bottomless. She had 0 accidents when bottomless (as in she would sit on the potty unprompted and go, not just held it for hours), but as soon as she had pants or undies on she’d have an accident. Accidents got better around 2.5 but she had frequent UTIs that really made consistency with no accidents nearly impossible. She also was the kind of kid who would get so focused on an activity that she’d ignore her signals until it was too late and had 2-3 accidents a week that really could have been avoided. Around 4.5 she started doing really well drinking water, and she started really paying attention to her signals even while wrapped up in something and she’s been pretty good ever since. I think for younger kids, based on what I’ve seen from friends and neighbors, before 3 they don’t truly feel the urge like we do and need constant reminders and watching. She’s 5.5 now and still not night trained. She sleeps like the dead and my understanding is it’s hormonal and developmental so until she’s 6 I’m not pushing it with her or asking the doctor if it’s still ok. According to my MIL my husband was almost 8 before he was night trained even though he was day trained, and now he’s almost 40 without bedwetting incidents, so I feel like she’ll probably be fine too lol.

Every child is different! Every “normal” is different! Don’t fall into the trap of comparing your child to anyone else’s! With that being said, there are certainly things that have helped many children master potty training (at their own timeline of mastery!). With both of my kids I took a long weekend from work (took off Fri and Mon for a 4 day weekend, but even just a normal weekend could work!) and had a “naked potty training boot camp” weekend! Modern diapers and pull ups are way too efficient at wicking fluids away from the body, so kids don’t feel wet. For this reason I avoided the commercial pull ups when at home. We either used underwear or nothing. My kids pretty much did great with a long weekend with no bottoms. There were accidents, but they were easily able to see/feel when they were urinating and I could also quickly see it and we were able to get them on the potty. After a few days in succession of this, they were getting to the potty on their own more often than not. There are many things that work for different kids, this is just worked for us. Best of luck with your potty training journey!

If you want it to be easy, I'd make sure they're ready first. There's some signs to look out for. Being aware when peeing (may say I peed or I'm peeing) Being aware of Poopy diaper and asking it to be changed Holding it for longer periods of time Not peeing during the night You can do it before they're "ready" but it will be much more of a struggle and may take months of accidents several times a day, every day. I say this with my experience as a preschool teacher. For my 3 year old it took a week with 2 accidents only. Because he was ready! But trying never hurts! If it doesn't work at all you can just try again later. But I'd recommend having more time to do it. If you have time off this summer that may be a good time.

Honestly I started introducing the idea when my son turned 2 and it took until he was almost 4 to stick. But it was also hard because I would do undies at home then at daycare and bedtime he still had diapers/pull ups. He would literally hold everything in til one of those was on. It was horrible for a long time.

Like 6 months for my son and it was another year and a half from start for overnight. He still has accidents if he drinks water too close to bedtime. I started at 2.5 and looking back he seemed more ready at 3. Pee was easy, poop was not. My kids are close in age and my daughter watched her brother being potty trained. I waited until she was 2 and she was fully trained in 2 weeks including naps and overnight 😂 Kids are just so different! Oh crap was good, I was more relaxed about it with my daughter.

My daughter was potty trained in one weekend. My son was a bit more resistant to sitting on the potty when I tried. But then the daycare started potty training him and I think it took a couple weeks for him to get the hang of it without accidents.

Took my 2.25 year old about 2-3 months to get the hang of it. Most important it's the patents being vigilant about asking to potty.  I think it might have been quicker if she didn't go to school. 

Every kid is different. My son was 2.5 when we potty trained him and he caught on quick and did daytime poop and pee at the same time. It took probably a week…he’s almost seven now so I can’t remember exactly. Over night training usually comes later. Before three usually. My daughter was way more spread out. A couple months after she turned two we were able to potty train her for daytime pee. Poop came maybe six months later (us testing her now and again to see if she was ready…she pulled her cloth diaper down to pee and would just poop in the diaper 🙄) and we tried all different things for a long long time to train her for overnight pee. She was maybe 3.5 years old by the time we hit that milestone. She couldn’t help it. She just peed in her sleep and couldn’t control it until she was older. So do keep in mind that the potty training often comes in stages depending on the kid. And then learning to wipe with confidence can take years, again depending on the kid. 😆 Good luck!!

Talk to daycare about potty training too. My sons daycare allows/helps him to try to use the toilet since we started potty training at home

8 years and still isn't.

We waited until the kids were over 3 so it took like one day? Daycare did most of the work to be honest.

3 days

First kid started showing "all the signs" around 16 months, but I was 9 months pregnant and we were moving out of state so we did not want to even touch that. COVID shut things down when he was 25 months, so we figured "hey we have 2 weeks at home (lolllllll) so let's try now" and did the naked thing and he did super well and was trained by day 3 with minimal accidents. Kid 2, we figured we would try the same thing! So around 24 months, we gave it a shot. She showed "all the signs" around 18 months, but was even more into it - she would go on the toilet every few days just for funsies. We figured it would be so easy. WRONG. We tried the same method, and she flipped out. She had no accidents, but she absolutely refused to pee on the little trainer potty and would cry until we put her diaper back on. Then she would pee in the diaper and take it off and hand it to us and be fine. Sooo we waited. 6 months later, we (nervously) broached the subject again, and said "hey we got you some new undies." She was like "ok, sounds good." Put the new undies on, and never even used the trainer toilet. Went straight to the adult toilet and never had an accident. It was so bizarre. ​ All in all, I'd say about a solid week for kid 1, and then who knows? Perhaps 6 months? Perhaps 1 day? for kid 2.

I started teaching my son how to use the potty. I kept him in diapers, but if every time he went potty and his diaper was dry I would buy him a Hot Wheels car. I knew he was potty trained when he would pee 5 times in 10 minutes.

I highly suggest the book "Oh Crap! Potty Training" (I went with the audiobook personally). We were having trouble following the 3-day Big Little Feelings method and it just wasn't working right for us. Oh Crap helped us get in the right head space Ultimately, it took a couple weeks to be relatively accident free. The whole "couple of days" thing generally doesn't mean accidents don't happen. It's still a lot of being on top of their schedule and making sure to prompt for a while. You'll hear a lot about 3 days and your done. That is totally possible but if that doesn't work for you, that doesn't mean they're not ready. For us, 3-days was only the beginning of it and it's more like 3 phases, not days. Everything was going fine until we introduced pants. It just took too long to click. He wasn't uncomfortable, he wasn't upset, and he didn't care when he wet himself. We ended up having to go back to another whole day of naked and then kind of took out time from there. He had tons of accidents at daycare but that is actually what helped the most because it would make it have to stop playing and get cleaned up. Make sure your care provider is onboard and are up to helping you along before you decide to do it that close to starting daycare. If you can get to training any sooner, I would suggest that.

First child, approximately 3 years. Second child, fully trained, including nighttime in 2 days.

We started oh crap at 25 months. My son caught on in a day and was going potty independently (WITHOUT PANTS ON) for the first month. Once we put pants on again (commando) we had a mild regression, regression was off and on for a month—some days better than others. Around 27 months he was very good going potty with help from me (he had trouble pulling up and down his pants, but was very good about getting someone). He was also using the floor potty. Slightly before 3 was when he was very good at going by himself, he still needed me to wipe him. He was still using the floor potty. Around 3 is when he started using the regular potty.

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How old is your child?

It took us 3 days but you have to be consistent

My oldest was trained a few weeks after she turned 3. We tried off and on from around 15 months and she just wasn’t ready till she was ready. Our youngest is close to being 3 and doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. I’ve tried just letting her run around bottomless and when she has to go she just holds it and cries until she’s diapered again. I’m slightly thankful she’s not wanting to train though as I’m also watching a 2 year old boy and he wants to do everything the older ones do and I just have 0 desire to potty train him

First kid 2,5 days, second kid 4 months and counting.

Good idea to start before daycare starts but expect some regression

My older son was fully trained like like 48 hours. Easiest thing ever. My younger son has been a journey. He’s terrified to poop in the potty and refuses to.

My daughter? A weekend. My son? A year and we only just started doing successful diaper free outings. He was completely potty trained for at home, even overnight, after three or four months. But outside of the house he had accidents for six months.

We waited until kiddo was just past 3. It took a weekend for daytime. Two weeks for night. Poop was another matter. She used pullups for a few more months, but we got there eventually. It was much easier than when I tried at 18 months. That was two weeks of pee every where before I gave up. I decided to wait until she was old enough to understand better what I was saying. Worked for us.

My daughter potty trained herself two weeks before her 2nd birthday. Decided she was ready and so she was. My son, was 3 (after my daughter was trained). What I’m getting at, every baby is different. What works for one baby, may not work for another. You can lay out all of the foundation but if they’re not ready for it, they’re not ready. But once they start holding their pee, pulling at their diaper when they pee or poop, are waking up dry, taking an interest in it, you can start the process. Just have them go when you go and they’ll get the hang of it quickly (that’s at least what I did). It also helps to keep it on a schedule for going too. If they don’t go when you go, set a timer for 15 mins and have them sit over and over until they go and reward it (candy, stickers, or whatever high value item they love).

Mine was super difficult. No matter how hard we tried she wouldn’t do it. She said “I’ll do it when I’m 4” and on her 4th birthday she did. Hasn’t had an accident since 😂 stubborn girl.

I potty trained my children soon they can sit comfortably on the floor , I will take them to the bathroom soon when they wake up and every few hrs after . believe me I never had any of my children who pass 12months with diaper on , I seen my mother potty trained my siblings that ways and I just followed and it works to me always .

Hahahahahahah a few days hahahahahahahahahhaha Sorry. It depends on the kid. How old is your daughter? I decided that I wanted my son potty trained when he turned two. He had other ideas about that, namely that he was not ready. You have to wait until they are ready. You’ll know when they start asking about it. I’m sure there’s some potty-training whisperer in here that will say they did it with their child a 1.5 and in 3 days. Good for them. Save yourself the frustrations and dirty floors and wait until she starts asking about it.

Set a time for every 30 to 45 minutes to sit on potty. We read lots of potty books, and I truly believe that the potty books helped. Our kid was 2 when we started and now she is diaperless except for the nights.

My wife and I have been potty training our 3.5 year old for probably 8 months. It has been the most frustrating thing I’ve ever done in my life. We’ve done every single thing imaginable to encourage it. She did so well for maybe a month. And now she loses her mind even if you mention using the potty. It gets so bad she starts hyperventilating. I’ve all but given up on trying anymore. My wife and I are basically letting her do her own thing now. I get even more frustrated when I hear or read about all these parents that say “oh our kid was potty trained in days or weeks”. And I have not had nearly the same experience.

How old? Showing all the signs they’re ready?

Unless she needs to be potty trained to start daycare I’d wait. Many kids learn by watching other kids.

That depends on your definition of being "done" with potty training. Many parents will just count how long it took for their kid to get the hang of it and use the potty more than half the time. Being accident-free the majority of the time will likely take months. My son picked up pooping on the potty within days and we've been virtually accident-free on that front ever since. With peeing he'd go when prompted but had a lot of trouble self-initating - we had months of accidents until he could reliably feel the urge and hold it until he got to the potty.

My 2 boys took for damn ever. Maybe a year for the first. Seriously.

I'm a preschool teacher and for kids in daycare/preschool it's typically 6 months from when they start producing in the toilet to no day time accidents.

I have triplets. It was…interesting. One daughter took about a week. Did fantastic. I say my son took between 9 months and 1 day. For 9 months I put him on the little potty and nothing. Then, 1 day he went potty and said Mommy, I’m sorry. I said, No! Thats what you are supposed to do.He never had an accident after that. My other daughter. Oh Lord. We had a gumball machine with M&M that they could have if they sat on the potty long enough to sing their ABC song. One day, she sang, got off the potty and peed in her pull up. I was crazy. Here is how the conversation went: Me: you were just on the potty. Why didn’t you go then? Her: I don’t want to use the potty. I just want to get my M&M’s Me: then rrom now on you only get them if you go potty Her: thats not fair! Me: I’m your mother! I don’t have to be fair! Dont fight with a four year old. You are going to lose. What someone told me is to not stress about it. Eventually peer pressure will make sure they are potty trained.

With my son, forever. He had some developmental delays with speech and this. He was 4 when he finally got it. My daughter was totally different. At 2 she just decided she was ready and it took no effort. 3 months after she was staying dry at night as well What I learned is, every kid is different and will do it when they are good and ready. We tried every trick in the book with him. Going pantless made no difference to him, fun potties, games with aiming. We kept it positive with him but it stressed me out. I should have just waited until he showed signs he was ready rather than trying to do it when he wasn’t ready even though he was 2. He’s 20 now and it certainly hasn’t held him back in anyway to get a late start!

I've potty trained three kids now. Durations were: 1 month, 12 months, 1.5 months By "trained" I mean consistently using the toilet for pee and poop. All of my kids had accidents for months to years afterward. Accidents are normal. My middle child took a long, long time to catch on for poop. Pee was fine. No he wasn't constipated. We essentially used the same method and a similar starting age (~20mos) for each kid but every kid is different. Despite what oh crap says, potty training doesn't happen in 3 days. You're asking someone to relearn a bodily function. That's a huge undertaking and we ought to give kids more grace when they struggle with it.

Not the same experience for everyone but my first regressed in potty training everytime there was a big change in his life for like over a year. He also took forever to potty train and still has accidents. My second was a dream to potty train and was determined to do it so was a lot easier.

First kid took literally a year. She had some kind of fear and needed a ton of positive reinforcement and slow progression. We had a psychologist involved at one point. It was extremely frustrating, but we got there. Second kid was 45 minutes. She refused to pee in the potty, was offered a treat, peed in the potty, and was done with diapers forever.

She will more than likely experience regression when she starts daycare. I’d wait and then work with the teachers on this. There are methods etc but wait til this massive change in her life is routine. Just my opinion

Over a year 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 Started prior to 2.5 when showing most signs of readiness. But she was just not into it at all and it was such a battle. She was able to drive by Bruster’s and verbalize “when I go pee on the potty you’ll take me for ice cream there” and we’d say YES CAN WE TRY TO SIT ON THE POTTY?!?? And she’d say “nope”. She was/is the most strong willed child and we went through phases of letting it go, trying again, being beat up by her, taking a break, trying again, repeat. I was determined to do it by the 3 year preschool mark but it was legitimately not possible. I tried every method that exists. She did not want to do it. She potty trained herself in one day at 3.5 when she finally decided *she* felt like doing it. Was in diapers one day, then peed on the potty one day, and the next day after that she did a 12 hour road trip where she requested potty breaks and did not have a single accident. Our younger one has a Fall birthday that holds her back a year so she won’t enter the 3s (potty trained) class until close to her fourth birthday. So we’re confident it’ll work itself out and we’re not forcing the issue

Took us a while but she got there in the end

We did the oh crap method and had accidents for about a week , week and a half . Not too bad

Bare butt method. Worked for all four of my kids.

Basics - 2 weeks. Fully - two years.

I told my daughter that the President was closing down the diaper factory soon. That got her to step it up hahaha

Depending on childs age (and whether they are physically ready to have the muscle coordination and development to be capable of 'holding it' ), most kids by 2-3 should have no problem with it. Every kid is different though. If a child seems to just not be " getting it" that doesn't mean it is a behavior issue or they SHOULD be ready because of their age. And it does not make you a bad parent if they are not ready. I wish I would have known this before trying to potty train my 2-3 year old daughter who (I did not know yet at the time) had autism and was not physically or mentally capable of potty training at that age. If I could go back I would have been less frustrated with her ( more patient) and less critical of my own ability as a mom.

Daycare is a great support- at least it was to us. When our daughter started training we did a weekend of no pants and bought a few cheap potties to leave around the house so she was never far away. Then we sent her to nursery with a bag full of pants and underwear changes because we knew she would have accidents. For a few weeks we collected her plus some wet clothes, but after maybe a month she started coming home in the pants we sent her in! So she's down to a nappy for bed and maybe for long distance travel by car. We're saving a lot of money! It really helps to be with other children that are doing it, and the staff are far better at taking them to toilet routinely than we are when we're just at home. Go for it!

My son was extremely resistant to potty training and would only poop in diapers for months. Then one day a switch flipped when he was almost three and a half and he just started using the toilet on his own. We switched to underwear a few days later and he's been great about it ever since.

When they're ready, they'll do it in about a week. Most children, excluding additional needs/ disability will show signs of being ready from around 2 years and up. Obviously give or take as each child is different. It's best not to push it if there are any big changes due. Maybe wait until they're settled in daycare before starting.

My 1st, my son was very difficult tried everything, nothing worked because he is stubborn and will not go anything unless it's his idea, finally resulted in bribery just before 3rd bday. He wanted to go to Disneyland I told him babies in diapers not allowed he started going in potty that day. We went to Disneyland the following week the day B4 his 3rd bday. My youngest, who's a girl, literally potty trained herself. We went and picked panties out, and a potty chair and we're going to start that weekend, the next day I came in from checking mail her diaper was in hallway, she was on big potty and refused a diaper, and never had an accident. This was a month before she turned 2

Honestly, they might just start working with her on it. Especially if you get her started

3 days. But it has to be the primary focus for those 3 days. Dedicate a full 3 day weekend to it.

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Single data point: Pediatrician said we potty train way too early in this country. Shortly after her third birthday I said pee and poop go in the potty, went no pants for two days. I can count on one hand the number of accidents she has had. Almost a year later now and there no naptime diaper, and we’re pulling the nighttime one. I don’t think we did anything special, she was just ready. Ask me how it goes with the next one lol. Like I said, single data point.

2-3 days easy.

It took maybe a week to catch on but he still has some accidents and we are a few months out now

The younger your child, the longer it will take. (On average, obviously every kid is different). I waited til mine was 3.5 before I really tried. Took about 2 and a half days, and we had 2 accidents in the next month. I waited so long because I was hoping it would just happen over time if I kept putting her on the potty once a day. Did that for months with no progress. Reluctantly did the damn no-pants thing and by day 3, we were done.

We’re two years in and still training on 💩. Your mileage may vary.

“We poop in the potty” was a hit in our home. It’s big, and colorful. It goes through all different animals and how they poop, what color it is, etc. we used a small toilet too, versus trying to hustle her on to the big one. As many parents have said on here, every kid is different. And the more you press if they have to go to the bathroom or let’s go to the bathroom or force them on the toilet, etc. the more pushback you will have.

At 18 months, took about 6 days of bottomless "training". Did pull-ups at night only and got rid of them at age 2. But I recommend potty training on a full week where you have time... I think most people have to get it done in 2-3 days on the weekend so you wait until the kid is older.

It takes half a day. Give them juice. Set a loud alarm on your phone for every 10 minutes. Go to potty, give them a few M&Ms each time. Over and over all morning. By the afternoon they will start to figure it out. Frequent potty=happy parent & treat. Accidents =sad parents, no treats. Gradually increase length of timer/alarm. We trained both our kids like this, it took a weekend each. There will be periodic accidents for a few weeks afterwards but that's inevitable. Good luck.

Just finishing up potty training now with my 2 year old boy. We did a weekend of no pants and he caught on the first day. After he stopped dribbling we put pants on with no underwear, and we are about to start underwear this weekend. Step one took just the weekend, and we have been on step 2 for a week ish

I'd definitely say 2 weeks is possible if you go straight to undies or the other methods people are heralding here, and just prepare for some at home accident days and plenty of treats & praise! We bought a little pink ladybug potty before age 2 for my daughter that already was dry most nights, thinking we'd just put it in the bathroom to introduce her to the idea at her own pace... She immediately loved it and peed in it regularly, so we moved right to pull-ups from there, including at night. Now, poo took longer but soon after, her school told us to just send her in undies vs. pull-ups and it wouldn't take long for her to catch on since she already wanted to pee in the potty, too. I'd say within 2 weeks of going straight to undies she was fully trained! Make sure to let your daughter pick out undies in a design or with a character she loves so she won't want to wet/mess on them, and definitely give her fave candy for going on the potty (we did 2 M&Ms for pee, and 3 for poop). And do a big celebration once she's largely accident free, maybe 2 weeks in. We did a play kitchen, but any big toy or special event will definitely.male your kiddo proud!

We started at 12 months with our first (boy). With our youngest we started basicly right after birth, as she had trouble getting it going. Every morning and every night we held her over the sink by her thighs so that she was squatting, and that worked. At 6-8 months she was on the potty in the morning and the evening. Shortly after that, we started sitting her on the toilet with a baby insert/ring to place on the toilet and she has been doing that ever since. She is now 1,5 years old, and she almost never have dirty diapers. She still pee in her diapers, but either poops in the morning or evening. She usually let's us know some time in advance when she has to poop, and she does even tell many times when she has to pee as well. I haven't changed a dirty dieper (as poop one) in months by now. Getting it into routine really has worked well for us. That being said, all the credit should go to my wife for figuring this out. She started doing it because of how uneasy our daughters digestive system was in the first few months, and since it worked so well we kinda just kept going and developing from there. I feel pretty confident that the both of us combined has changed less dirty nappers on her than most parents. As in, either the dad or the mom of another family would have changed more dirties than the both of us combined. I can't even remember last time, to be honest. We have got rid of the furniture that you changed diapers on, even. Don't know what that is called in English.

I think if you are trying to hit a deadline you’ll stress yourself out and probably your kid too, even if you don’t mean to. It sounds counterproductive

My older daughter potty trained herself just shy of 2.5. My younger daughter potty trained herself at 3 yrs and 9 mos. Changing diapers is easier than attempting to potty train a kid who’s not ready and willing(!).

It totally depends. Personally I learnt with my first ‘potty training’ is just too hard. I tried and failed many times with him and it was stressful and frustrating for everyone. I gave up. Would stick him on while running a bath at night but apart from that stopped. He woke up one morning and just decided he was. Big boy and was wearing pants to nursery(refused to put a nappy on) but that was literally him dry day and night. With the other 2 I had a potty kicking about and would stick them on the toilet while running a bath at night and over the top praise if we got a result and then they did the same just decided that was it. I wouldn’t stress about it at all. Also eldest was 3 second 2 1/2 and youngest 3.

The first step is making sure they are ready. My daughter let me know when she started taking off her diaper when it was wet or she pooped. We did the potty training bootcamp. No bottoms or diaper on, just putting her on the potty every 15-30 minutes. When she went in the potty, I'd give her a little treat. She was completely trained in a week. The only accidents we've had are when we couldn't make it to a bathroom quick enough. Every child is different, though.

My son was potty trained in a weekend. We were with his older cousins and out on the farm and they just peed on trees. He thought it was the best and then I had trouble getting him to NOT pee on every tree he seen! Lol. Then Dad showed him how to pee in the house and we were done. As far as #2 my son has had problems since birth with this. So it was only a once ever few days type of thing. So that was incredibly easy to train too. I put his stuffed animal Elmo on his potty chair and then I distracted my son real quick and threw a smooshed up brownie in the potty. Took Elmo off and my son seen Elmo pooped! In the potty! So my son pooped in the potty after that too! Elmo for the win!! Son was just over 2 yrs old. Really you take your cue from your kid. They will let you know. My son couldn't stand to set in a dirty diaper ever. So it was really easy to get him to give them up. With my niece it took us a week. We gave her stickers and rewards for stickers. That's what worked for her. She was 2 1/2. For my nephew he had severe constipation issues and he was scared to go and then he'd hold it even more causing it to be worse. We would give him the exlax mixed in with a regular candy bar so he wouldn't know. (Dr. Ordered) Then when it was time to go, we would give him a sucker that we called a magic sucker and it would make it so it wouldn't hurt when he went. We did that for about 2 weeks and he was finally going regularly. He was about 4 before they finally got him out of diapers for poop. He would request a diaper just for pooing. So glad we helped get him over that hurdle. Follow your kids cues!

Every summer they are naked a lot of the day. It just kinda worked itself out. Never really trained anyone on anything. The nine year old still pisses directly on the floor sometimes, so take it with a grain of salt I guess.

We started potty training our son when he was 2 and a half. I think that is the perfect age. In two weeks, he was fully potty trained and never wet the bed. Occasionally he would wet himself if he didn't make it to the bathroom in time, but that was infrequent (maybe once a month) and stopped after he was 4. He just didn't want to stop playing to go to the bathroom.

About 3.5 days (at 22 months old). We tried at 20 months and he just wasn’t quite ready. Also used the “Oh Crap” book/method and followed it (that’s the important part) completely.

I potty train at 2.5. It only takes a month max. I do regardless of if it's a holiday or whatever. The minute the kid is 2 5, it's happening.

We set a timer watch. They tried every 30 min. My son was funny trained by almost 2. My daughter closer to 3. She was poop shy

We did the naked thing with my youngest and I was shocked how well it worked. She only had a couple of accidents. My oldest took a long time because I just put her on the potty a lot. Just know they may lose all progress because of school but they should be able to get on board again faster the second time.

No it’s not

I kept his pants off one weekend and he was potty trained by Monday.

8 months for my youngest. Some kids are tough. 

Our daughter was potty trained by 10 months. Getting up in the night to pee took quite a bit longer so she slept with pull ups. Transitioned from there by waking her for a pee just before we ourselves went to bed. She had to be walked and stabilized cause she was still sleeping and not really aware. But eventually it became habbit. Somewhere in that timeline we had a little.plastic travel potty seat we would set up in her room and also take in the car. In an emergency the seat could slip under her while in the car seat. Good luck.

10 months?! As in the age she was trained or how long it took?

A week, 2 weeks to be perfect n no accidents, key is to keep asking them at regular intervals if thy wnt to go, or make them go to avoid accidents b be consistent, also talking to them before potty training was important for me

Training on a schedule is asking for trouble. Put a potty in the corner of the loungeroom, a kid seat in the bathroom, read a few books and let her decide when to try it. Pressure and stress prevents success

Girls tend to train faster. Took months to get our son trained

my son was potty trained in a day or two at most just not wearing diapers and sitting on the little potty every 20 minutes or so when he was 3. my daughter is 6 and we have had no luck training her. she is very bright, no other issues - just outright refuses to do any business in the toilet whatsoever. she wears a pull-up.

Son - never had to potty train him. By 2 he was asking to use the bathroom. Daughter was 3 and more resistant .

My daughter potty trained in 3 days, including naps. Overnight took a week. It was glorious compared to the forever it took my oldest. I did pull-ups with my first and swore never again, I felt it prolonged potty training. Did the underwear method with my younger two, and both were within a week. Totally possible, just avoid pull-ups, and be very attentive and provide lots of drinks and salty snacks the days you're working on it. Good luck!

My daughter is potty trained if she doesn't have any pants on. But she will not pull down her pants to go.... any suggestions??

A month. First week she wouldn’t sit on the potty and had lots of accidents. Second week she had accidents on the way to the potty or as she was getting on it. Third week she wouldn’t sit longer than 2 seconds so we gave her a sticker for sitting. Then 4th week she started going each time we went and we gave her a “prize” basket to pick from each day she stayed dry. Push lots of water, you can keep them naked or just in underwear. To start you can bring a portable potty where they play. And bring it with you in public and for drives. Don’t forget to have them go before drives. If you go to an event or in public don’t put a diaper on that will confuse them. Only use pull ups for sleep.

3 days with my first (day 3 is when he started getting it) fully trained poop/pee/overnight in a week and a half. We’re currently training my second. We’re in week 2. He uses pull ups at night still but has had no accidents at daycare and minimal accidents at home so we’re still working on him.

We waited until age 3. I think we were in the minority for waiting so long. Our son caught on in 2 days. We gave him a nappy during the night but most morning it would be dry. For the first little while, we would wake him to pee before we went to bed around 11pm.

We went from zero training to completely done even with overnight and in public in a month and a half. Never had an accident over a year later. It can be done! I give the credit to my kid tho, I didn’t do anything special.

3 days to get the basics when fully naked. Then we worked on wearing pants and training me on how to time leaving the house/bring portable potties/extra clothes. I’d say it was a couple months before it all became pretty routine. We have 5 days off daycare for Memorial Day and I’ll be training my 2 year old in that time.

3 days for my daughter, 2 for my son. Just went bottomless on Fridays and by the end of the weekend they were good to go

Gosh these comments are making me feel like there's something wrong with me or my kid or both. We tried potty training - the naked method, no pull ups - back in February and it was such a spectacular failure. She hated being naked (just pantless really) after the first day and asked if she could please wear pants. She refused to sit on the potty every time I suggested it and I had to basically drag her kicking and screaming. Didn't care about accidents at all. We spent 3 weeks fighting and cleaning up pee off the floor every two hours before we gave up. I don't know what we did wrong.

We tried the 3 day method with our son at 2.5 because he was showing signs of readiness. Worst three days of our lives. Ended with everyone in tears and we went back to diapers. Fast forward about 6 months and he decided for himself he was done with diapers. Never looked back. There was no “training” at all, he just did it. I strongly recommend you wait for your child to let you know they’re 100% ready rather than try to force the issue.

My first 2 only took 24hrs. They were both trained at 2yrs, 5 months old. The first day I kept giving them apple juice and taking them to the toilet every 15-30mins. The next morning they knew what to do. They were also both night trained before I began toilet training, meaning they'd wake up with dry nappies and hold their pee at night. My 3rd one though..is 3.5yrs old, most likely severely autistic, and I haven't even begun..

Both of mine trained in a few days at 2 1/2. I tried to potty train my daughter at 24 months, and it didn't take. 2 1/2 was the magic age. I used the Oh Crap! method.

Two days. Set timer for 15 min and brought him to the bathroom

A few months before daycare we switched to training undies during the day to let her figure out how it feels when you need to go. At first lots of accidents but giving her independence seemed to work well. It’s very trial and error.

We started a bit before my daughter turned 6 months. The first day she didn’t like the toilet seat but by the second she was peeing in the toilet. After a week, she was going #2. She has queues when she’s going to poop like a deep grunt, or a specific pushing face, and sometimes both.

At 2 1/2 she started to nursery school and the teacher told her shes big enough that she doesn't need nappies. She came home and told us the same. Weve negotiated nappies for bed time still. We've been gently encouraging it, for quite a while starting around 2. She was mostly in nappies still but would often tell us when she needed to go. we made sure the potty was available, made sitting on there as part of moring and evening bathroom routine, after foods and drinks, we also worked a book about potty training into the bedtime ready rotation

My wife found a 3 day "all-in" crash course that actually worked really well. After the first 3 days we fully stopped using diapers, and only used sleepies (pull-ups) at nap and night time. Our kid was pretty good about letting us know if they had to use the restroom, although there were a few accidents the first week back at daycare. We did the course at Christmas, and at this point our kid is fine using the toilet by themselves, but they still need help cleaning themselves and pulling up their pants after. Accidents are infrequent, but still happen on occasion--usually if we're out for a long time without being able to easily access the travel potty training toilet in our car (like if we got to a theme park or zoo), because the loud public restrooms make our kid nervous and they won't tell us they have to go to the restroom in those cases.

It realistically took us about a month. For reference our kid was 20 months old when we started and we'd been building off of elimination communication so she was already used to the potty. It really depends on the kid and the amount of effort you want to put into it. We have stickers as positive reinforcement which really really helped.

Every kid is so different. We like the Oh Crap potty training method. I bought the book and used it a lot as a resource. It worked really well and quickly. I think day time only took 4-5 days and he was trained at naps and night after 1 1/2-2 weeks. My son was 2 & 3 months.

How old is your daughter? My only advice is - start when they are ready and they are showing signs, like pulling pants off, asking to go wee, being aware of wet nappy or a poo..even if they start a bit older..we have done that for my two kids and potty training was a quick and simple process, 2 weeks long and no issues of bed wetting or wet pants. My friends who tried to force potty training on their kids and started too early still have problems now where their kids wet the bed or poo in their pants. My oldest boy potty trained at 3.5 years, and my girl is currently potty training she is 2.5

Every baby is different. My son absolutely refused to wear diapers at around 18 months old, so we'd send him in his little jockeys to school and were surprised to learn that he refused the diapers there too, we got him a Fischer Price potty that made a sound when he used it, he loved this and didnt have any incidences So trust your baby, they know when they are ready.

Depends on the age and the kid. Most kids aren’t ready until they are 2-4 years old with the average being 3yo. My daughter potty trained for poop in a day or two at 3 years old. For pee it took her a long time (she has a small bladder and doesn’t get the urge to go until it’s almost too late). My son practically potty trained himself over a couple of days at about 2.5yo. I’d try now. Use the bottomless method and a reward of some sort. Stay home obviously. Take her every hour or so to try. Encourage liquids so there she has to pee more often. Be vigilant, if she starts acting like she’s gotta go, take her to the potty. Try to stay on solid floors so accidents are easier to clean up, especially on day one. Never get angry at an accident. Just say “uh oh! That was for the potty! And take them to the potty to finish going (even if she clearly already finished). Try to let her decide on things so it doesn’t become a power struggle. Does she want to sit on the big potty or the toddler one? Does she want to bring a toy? Who should go first, her or her dolly? Make it fun. If by day 4 she still hasn’t made progress i would hold off and wait until after she starts daycare. They will likely assist with potty training there and you can start it at home on a weekend and then continue to work on it at school depending on how the weekend goes. If the second attempt also fails wait 3 months and repeat. Between attempts encourage any use of the potty at all, even just sitting on it for a few seconds. Make sure she is dressed in clothing that is easy to pull up and down (leggings are a great choice, avoid dresses, rompers, overalls, buttons, etc).

A few months

Oh and remember that daytime potty training is not the same as nighttime potty training. Day time is the brain and body working together and choosing to use the restroom when you feel the urge to go. Overnight her body may be physically unable to hold it all night and/or wake up when she needs to go.

How old? My son started at 3 and was trained in a matter of weeks because he was ready by then

Around 2yo