When did your boy toilet train?

Oh, and if you do take a break, how do you explain it to your little one? I asked JJ today if he would like to wear nappies again for a little while, and he told me no, he wanted to wear undies.

I don't want nappies to be a punishment.

Aaaaaand (lots of questions!), do you think it is possible to allow him to go to day care in undies, because they want him to be toilet training, and it might help seeing all the other kids going to the toilet too. Or would that be too confusing?

Edited for spelling.

Edited by kiwilaurie

Firstly, dont let the daycare pressure you, If Jackson isnt quite ready then thats ok, the daycare shouldnt be pressuring you guys.

We started TTing Caden at around jacksons age and to start with he wasnt ready, he would sit on the potty and not do anything, and then he started being scared of the potty, so I just backed right off and left it for a while, until he started coming to me and saying he wanted to go toilet. When he was going on the potty a lot and keeping his pull ups reasonably dry, we switched to undies, he had accidents(number one and twos) but that only lasted about a week, then he realized he didnt like that and he would come to me and say he needed to go, and then after that he was TT's in like 2 weeks! He still wears pull ups at night and it takes longer to stay dry at night.

As for the undies thing, maybe just get him some pull ups and make it fun for him? With caden we would say "come and put on your cool mc queen pants caden" and he got really excited over it. I didnt send Caden to daycare in undies until he was keeping them dry.

The main thing to remember is that they will do it in their own time and to just go with the flow and dont stress about it, he will get it soon even if you need to hold off for a month

ETA - We started TTing caden in October last year, ended up holding off until Jan/Feb and he was fully TT by March(I think).

Edited by Sheza

It was around my son's 2nd birthday - but it was summer so we just let him run around with no pants and he'd go pee on the lawn - seemed to give him an idea of how his body worked. It must be much harder in daycare and in winter-time.
I'd say if he's not ready, then don't push it. He's not old to be toilet training - I think up to 3.5 is normal.

We never used any rewards or anything - doesn't seem to work to motivate my son anyway. We just left potties around the house and left it up to him what to do with them. First he'd just play with it or sit on it with his pants on. Sometimes he'd sit on it and do a poo with his nappies on. Whenever he did use it, I'd do the famous potty dance, which he loved!
My partner and I also let him come in the loo when we're going and he just wanted to copy his dad and pee standing up at the toilet.

Jack was about 2y10m I think. I had tried a little bit before that but we had no success. We starting by trying the toilet, I tried star charts, lolly rewards and even me having the lolly if he had an accident at a friend's suggestion, sitting him on the loo for ages with books etc etc. Nothing worked. In the end I put the potty in front of the tv and reminded him to go about every half hour. It was only a very short time, maybe a day or so and he was going of his own accord. I think for Jack it was the fact that he didn't want to miss out on anything like the tv or his toys and having to go into the toilet meant he missed out. Didn't take long to move him to the toilet, maybe a week or so? After that we had very few accidents and mainly when he held on and held on because he didn't want to miss out.

Good luck, and as others have said, don't let daycare push you and your son into TT if he isn't ready

i agree with Sheena about not lettting the daycare pressure you. You are the parent after all.

Both my boys were over 3 when they were fully toilet trained. Personally i think part of it is the fact that boys just dont really care about being dirty lol!

I got these awesome undies off TM that had padding like a nappy booster sewn into them and toby wore them for a long time, he still got wet but it meant that not everything else did all the time. Even when he was TT'ed he prefered to wear them.

we've been tting Cian for a couple of months - since about feb/march i think. he had real issues telling the difference between a nappy and undies so always used to wet through them, so we just had him bare bum for ages (at home) as much as possible and the rest just came in its own time. i'd give him the option to wear undies every now and then, and i still give him the option whether he wants undies or nappy for daycare (he still has accidents there, i think he's not comfortable with their toilet).