Potty Training Time???? - Auburn,IN

I didn't read any other responses, but here's my experience. My daughter also started showing interest around that same age. I could watch her cues & didn't change a poopy diaper after about 18 months. Peeing did take a little longer. I assume that might have more to do with the fact that I don't really see any kind of cues that she had to go. I did keep her in a diaper until I could switch her to panties, I just didn't change any dirty ones. I just kept taking her & encouraging her to go pee. Eventually she just did. She was probably completely dry during the day by 2 years & at night by 2 1/2. Lots of time & patience.

With both of my children I slowly started the potty training process around 18 mths. We would let them sit on the potty whenever they wanted, but we also started a routine. Every morning when they would wake up, before lunch, before/after nap & before bed we would sit them on the potty. Sometimes they would go and sometimes not. We also made sure they knew it wasn't play time while they were on the toilet. We would tell them to try to go pee/poop. As I said sometimes they would and others they wouldn't. After a few weeks, they got the hang of peeing almost everytime we put them on the toilet. It took several months for them to start telling us when they had to go. My son totally got the hang of it a few weeks prior to his 3rd birthday and my daughter picked it up around 2.5 years old. It was a long 12 - 18 months, but it was better than us or our children getting too frustrated with trying to speed up the timetable.

I would not ignore her requests if she is interested. She is excited to learn something new, but her body may not be develped enough to have any control of her bodily functions. That is why is knows she is wet, but can not tell you before it happens. She probably doesn't even understand why this happens yet either. My daughter has been potty trained for 6 months now. She still doesn't have much lead time between when she says she has to go and when she goes.

Probably not ready, but she might be. Some kids just get there fast.

There is a big difference, though, between knowing she is wet (or even knowing that she is urinating) and being able to know she has to go, hold it in until she gets to the potty, and then let it out once she sits down.

I would just keep following her lead. Let her stay in diapers, and when she runs to the potty let her sit on it. As long as she is the one in control, it shouldn't cause control issues that happen a lot when parents try to push potty training. And it doesn't hurt for her to sit on the potty after she's wet her diaper. She'll catch on when her nervous system is all coordiated, and it will probably be very quick then. But if she looses interest, let it go.

Whatever you do be consistent otherwise you are sending her mixed messages. Personally I think she is too young.

poop training is actually easier than pee training (as long as the child isnt afraid of it.) My DD was poop trained way before pee trained, because we knew when she generally went at night.

I think if your daughter wants to get on the potty, it will be more beneficial to continue to let her try than to squash it. Otherwise she might not want to try in the future. I'd go with pull ups though, not just regular undies.

No. She is not too young.
Can you -- RISK!! -- letting her run around without any diapers
for a trial session? Sounds like she KNOWS that pee goes into the potty.
It seems to me you should NEVER IGNORE her request to get on the pot. What good would that do . . . except to suggest that it's OK to keep peeing in her diapers. My DD figured out how to use the potty herself
when she was younger than your daughter.
We read a book together about a little girl elephant who learned how to use her potty chair. And we had DD's potty chair in her room.
She put two and two together and . . . .
I did let her go around the house naked while she was learning.

Start working with her. My son was the same way at 18 months. We put him in pullups and encouraged potty use. My the time he was 23 months he was peeing in the potty half the time and pooping almost 100% of the time, so at that point we went to undies. The first day was bad, he had a lot of accidents and wanted his pullup, but I said no, you are a bog boy now. The next day he had 2 accidents, and than one or two a week for a few weeks, and than none. It all went very smooth.