Potty training in 3 days…
Every single person I’ve talk to about potty training has said it’s took months (and some have said a year!) before their child is going themselves to the potty/toilet.
Age of potty training don’t seem to make much difference - I’ve spoke to people who started earlier and some started later and not a single one has said they done it in 3 days.
Why are there so many people on here what say it took 3 days? I don’t understand. Am I being stupid? Do you just mean they work out to do a wee on the potty but still need reminding?
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I’d say for us it was a case of 3 days indoors before we then started venturing out and about. Maybe a couple of weeks of a couple of accidents/day. But we started causally a couple of months before I committed to those 3 days. And we started fairly young (20ish months). She’s always been able to tell us when she needs to poo since we started, but she got on such a routine with wees we were at a place where she didn’t tell us she needed to go, but she wouldn’t have accidents either. We’d just prompt before going out/before and after meals and if she needed to, she’d go 🤷♀️
But now she’s 3 she’s started telling us she needs a wee and going so we’re prompting less and less, and also working on no nappies for nap and bedtime.
So in one sense, I would say she’s been potty trained for over as year, as that’s how long she’s been reliably day dry with no/very minimal accidents.
But in the sense of fully autonomous taking herself to the toilet every time and dry for nap/bedtime, she’s not.
I for one don't think it's possible in 3 days, I'm sorry you cannot have a child who has been wearing nappies for X amount of time and within 3 days they don't need reminding to go wee, have any accidents etc
So I think it depends on what your definition of ‘potty trained’ is.
I don’t think it’s possible to train in 3 days personally. For us it’s a very slow burn because I have a very strong willed child but to expect a child with no accidents fully potty trained in 3 days is unrealistic imo x
Our first was a bit strange when it came to potty training. She started asking to go just as we were about to go on holiday. We kept her in nappies but for the whole week she was consistently asking to use the toilet with dry nappies. When we got home she stopped wearing nappies. Had one accident the first day but after that she was fine. I always say she potty trained herself because we didn’t have to do anything. 😂
I'm on week 3 and only now am I seeing any progress, it's only just starting to click.
I wasn't able to stay home she had to continue going to childcare. Possibly that made the process longer , plus she also very strong willed as someone else said!
I'm sure there's some out there that genuinely did get it in 3 days, some take to it easier than others, but I personally think it can't be as common as it's made out to be - by the end of the 1st week I genuinely though "wtf I thought this took 3 days " 😂
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