When is too early to toilet train?

She is nearly 14 months!  Daniel is 26 months and not at all interested :(

http://www.naturalbirthandbabycare.com/elimination-communication.html

Try reading up on this stuff, it may give you some ideas about how to go about it. Im going to give it a go when bubs arrives. I figure that if I start with the goal of 'catching' one 'movement' a day then its worth it, then slowly work from there and fingers crossed it will be alot easier Good luck

I was born and bought up for the first few years in Singapore and the home help that Mum had toilet trained my fully before i was a year old.

The thing is though - when i was in the home helps care before i was TT i didnt wear nappies - just knickers and she carried a rag (yeah not my cuppa tea either but it was common practise) so you seemingly kids become aware of wet really easily.

So it is more than possible with the right kid and the right situation

I think its not about the age but the readiness of the child. I've seen children trained at 1, and others that started at 3 and a half.

But i think you can always have a potty or stuff avaliable and encourage them to be comfortbale with them, or using them. Then i think look for signs they might be ready - do they know if they are wet or dry or need to poo. Are they keeping dry for longer periods of time. Do they have some self help skills in this area?

For us, we lucked out with DS. It was September (he was 2years and 2 months old) and we had had a potty out for about 6 months, but werent getting him to use it, he'd just play with it at times. We'd decided to maybe start trying over Christmas as we all had a few weeks off. Well one day he came home from daycare and announced he wanted to go on the toilet. We sat him on and he went! The next few days he kept a nappy on, but would ask to go to the toilet, and his nappy stayed dry. We took the nappy off, went to undies, and that was that. He didnt have 1 accident (till about 4 months later when we went through some big home changes) and also stayed dry through the night.

Somehow i think im dreaming if i think this time round with number 2 it will be the same lol.

Campbell's 14 months old too - he's started the annoying habit of peeing on the floor a lot as soon as I take his nappy off! So I figure he's got at least some awareness.
I bought him a potty to at least get him familiar with it, even if he doesn't get the idea of actually peeing in it for months. But at the moment he hates sitting on it, and I can't keep him on there either! There's absolutely no pressure though, I just let him jump off.

Jake TTd himself at 18 months - I hadn't even thought about it. He saw his Dad and wanted to copy so maybe get Daniels dad to take him to the loo?? Jake also finds it better to pee standing up so maybe you could make a game of aiming?? You too whitewave - get Campbell to aim his pee at a bulleyes in the bottom of the potty??

Girls often TT earlier than boys too but either way just dont stress - they'll be using the toilet by the time they go to school

Oh yeah I didn't worry about undies for Jake coz they can be tricky to get up and down which can make for accidents. When they need to go they need to go straight away and struggling with knickers is just annoying and frustrating for them so yeah I would def suggest keeping it simple by just wearing pants (trackies are brill) and graduating to undies once they've got the TT down-pat

Arianne has started showing interest in me going to the loo. She has peed out of a nappy a few times after her bath and when she does she looks at me and looks at the floor and says "uh oh"

Does this seem like a sign she wants to go a bit further and use a potty?