Younger Potty Training?

My daughter will be 18 months in a few days. We started to introduce the potty things are not going well. She seems afraid to go pee or poop without the diaper on. We’ve been having a lot of nakey butt time to try to get rid of that. Let’s just say I’m out of paper towels 😅. I will also take any guidance

I potty trained my daughter at 19 months and am planning on doing my son at the same age. I just used the Oh Crap method, she was fully trained by the 3rd day and out of overnight diapers about 3 months later.

We had an attempt at potty training (3 day weekend) at 16 months, and my son peed but could not keep consistency once the work week started.

We kept the potty around in view, talked about it, and read books about it after that so he was familiar with it. He showed interest when I would use the bathroom, so I would let him in there while I peed and narrate the process. He would do the flush for fun and wash hands with me.

At 20 months we did a week long potty training session where he was pants-less with the potty chair in the livingroom and he did really well (with pee! Poop has been harder to teach, but he usually only poops 1x per day). It's been about 3 weeks since then and we found that he just doesn't have the ability to pull pants up & down yet, so now whenever we're home he is just in a shirt and long socks and pees in the potty whenever he needs to. He's in a pull up for naps, trips out of the house, and a regular diaper at bedtime.

We would give him 1 chocolate chip for every pee in the potty...

...and a little icecream for a poop. (If anyone has suggestions for kids who are shy poopers I'm all ears! He keeps doing it when we leave the room and tries to sit up before he's done, so it falls out of the potty 🥲 I'd imagine it will come easier with time.)

By day 5 he was peeing well and not really expecting the chocolate chip anymore, so we stopped that and just gave him praise.

I guess if you're ok with your kid naked at home this is what's working for us. It's all a process. He won't be naked forever lol

We potty trained our daughter at 18 months in a weekend, had her naked the whole weekend and was pretty successful. We tried with our son at 18 months, was a disaster 🫠 we ended up stopping and trying again the weekend after he turned 2 and it was much more successful - he’s still not picked it up fully but a lot better than when we tried at 18 months. So just be aware that it might not be successful!
But also, the first day with our daughter I was waiting every half an hour but soon realised she was going about every 13 minutes so by the end of the day I was putting her on a lot more regularly. We had loads and loads of accidents that day. The next day she did so much better because I’d realised she was needing a wee every 13 mins and by lunch time I think we’d maybe had one accident? And then over the week built up the time between toilet trips. My son was very inconsistent with when he would wee - sometimes he’d do a wee, one 5 mins later, then not do one for 2 hours 🤷‍♀️

I tried my daughter at 20 months but it didn’t go well at all. Gave it a rest until she turned two years old and it was completely different when we started again. She’s 2.5 and is completely potty trained now, no nappies overnight either. We followed the oh crap method. Hope it goes well