What helped make the potty training process easier for you?

My daughter will be 18 months soon could you forward on some helpful resources please 🩷

Make it fun!! I used to sing my boy silly songs to get him to understand to ask for the potty. When they do something be very over the top with praise. Don’t be sad about accidents and get them to help clean them and then take it to the toilet so they make the connection x

Ms Rachel’s 40 mins potty video with Bean! Omg we tried so many times then put her on one day and she worked it out in a day

We just winged it from about 20 months onwards 🤷‍♀️ having the potty out initially and letting her explore it, practise sitting on it (fully clothed to start with). Then just slowly integrated it into routine, first thing, before/after naps, before bath and bedtime. When she did her first wee gave loads of praise and made a really big deal of it. We cracked poos on the potty/toilet first as she had clear signs before she went, and has always been fairly regular. After a few months of doing it loosely did a couple of days with no bottoms and redirected to potty whenever there was an accident. Then started doing small trips out, trying before and after for places with no toilet (shop post office etc). She was reliably daytime dry with basically no accidents from her 2nd birthday.

I haven't potty trained my own baby yet as she's too young but I used to work with 2 year olds and we would potty train them at nursery to help them understand we placed them on the toilet while changing nappies and reading books about the toilet, for children who were frightened of the toilet and the noises and stuff we decorated the toilet with their favourite things or characters to make it more inviting. I would also say that is your baby is regular with their poos and stuff I would place them on the toilet around the time that they usually go as well to encourage them to do it on the toilet rather than the nappy.
There will be loads of accidents when you're nappy free and that's normal (I remember changing some potty trainers about 6/7 times while at nursery)! A lot of time they don't realise they're doing a wee or are wet cause the nappies soak them up so it takes a while for them to realise that they're wet cause they're weeing
Good luck!

Mine is also 18. I'm not training her as such, but I offer her potty every time she seems interested. She's saying Pee, plus I'd offer after meals and in the morning. Maybe half goes in the potty, half in the diaper. It helped that she's very clingy, and follows me to the bathroom all the time.