Skoorbaby #1 was potty trained in 3 days at 25 months and Skoorbaby #2 was trained in one hour at the age of 24 months. Here is how it's done, for parents who are scared about this or have one of those damned three year olds still in diapers.
Step 1: If you are a parent who says you'll wait "until they are ready", cut yourself. Then cut yourself again. Then move onto step 2.
Step 2: Ensure child has reasonable cognitive skills and physical control over waste functions. This doesn't mean they don't pee/poo in diapers, but if your child, for example, only poos by first going off into a corner before crapping their diaper, they qualify (they understand what they're doing).
Step 3: Remove diaper and keep child in kitchen or on other non-carpeted surface.
Step 4: Place potty in general area.
Step 5: Flood child with fluids.
Step 6: Encourage child to pee in the potty.
Step 7: Watch child pee all over the floor.
Repeat steps 6 & 7 until step 8 is reached.
Step 8: Child pees in potty. Child is congratulated. Mental link is made. Child is potty trained.
For our kids, steps 3-8 took 3 days the first time and 1 the next. Once these were reached, there were zero accidents and the kid was never again put in a diaper (very important). Pull-ups are ok at night, at first. Subsequently, there is the occasional accident (heck, who doesn't have those?), but after the first pee in the potty each were to the point they could be brought out, put to bed, etc. and been fine.
There may be a window of opportunity with age, but the above exercise works for a lot of people. It's not novel of revolutionary, but most parents don't have 24 or 25 month old potty trained kids because they take the "let them get ready by themselves" approach, which I think is pathetic, unless they enjoy changing the diaper of children who can form complete sentences.
Earliest potty training I've heard of is around 18 months, btw (not sure the method used). I imagine skoorbaby #2 could certainly have been potty trained before second birthday, based on how well it went.
Step 1: If you are a parent who says you'll wait "until they are ready", cut yourself. Then cut yourself again. Then move onto step 2.
Step 2: Ensure child has reasonable cognitive skills and physical control over waste functions. This doesn't mean they don't pee/poo in diapers, but if your child, for example, only poos by first going off into a corner before crapping their diaper, they qualify (they understand what they're doing).
Step 3: Remove diaper and keep child in kitchen or on other non-carpeted surface.
Step 4: Place potty in general area.
Step 5: Flood child with fluids.
Step 6: Encourage child to pee in the potty.
Step 7: Watch child pee all over the floor.
Repeat steps 6 & 7 until step 8 is reached.
Step 8: Child pees in potty. Child is congratulated. Mental link is made. Child is potty trained.
For our kids, steps 3-8 took 3 days the first time and 1 the next. Once these were reached, there were zero accidents and the kid was never again put in a diaper (very important). Pull-ups are ok at night, at first. Subsequently, there is the occasional accident (heck, who doesn't have those?), but after the first pee in the potty each were to the point they could be brought out, put to bed, etc. and been fine.
There may be a window of opportunity with age, but the above exercise works for a lot of people. It's not novel of revolutionary, but most parents don't have 24 or 25 month old potty trained kids because they take the "let them get ready by themselves" approach, which I think is pathetic, unless they enjoy changing the diaper of children who can form complete sentences.
Earliest potty training I've heard of is around 18 months, btw (not sure the method used). I imagine skoorbaby #2 could certainly have been potty trained before second birthday, based on how well it went.