Potty Training Twins - Chicago,IL

My twin boys are almost 3, and are in pullups for long trips in the car and at night. This started with one of the boys showing his readiness with using the toilet -we would ask them almost every 2 hours if they had to go potty, and just let them sit on the toilet to get use to it. After about a week or so they were telling us that they needed to go potty. They enjoy flushing the toilet afterwards and washing their hands. As soon as one of the boys started going regularly, he saw all the praise that he was getting, and initiated going potty on the toilet by himself. Hope this helps!!! Good Luck!!

I don't have twins, but I do have 3 children, and I would suggest training them separate as they are individually ready. If one trains, it may actually encourage the other. As much as having them out of diapers is a woinderful thing, I truly believe better late than early in this case if they are not truly ready. Better to train in a few days than drag it out over the course of months with all kinds of battles! Best wishes!

Hi K.,
I have twins (girl/boy) who are now almost 8. Although I started potty-training them at the same time, I could tell that they had different interest levels once we started. My son -- believe it or not -- took to it like an old pro, while my daughter was a little slower to catch on. No problem. I actually thought it was easier to train them separately since they each ended up having my full attention during the training process. My advise would be to start training the twin who seems ready, and then who knows -- twin #2 may follow shortly after. Good luck!

I have almost 5 yr old twin girls and I started off training them together and one was more responsive to it than the other, so I worked with one. I started the process before they were showing signs, but we were approaching the summer and I wanted to get it done. The other one eventually trained. We worked on little milestones. We'd start off just wearing undies for a few hours in the morning, then we'd work on undies in the morning and afternoon, etc. We did lots of briberies...stickers, mm's, so on. Going #2 on the potty was more challenging. They'd wait until they were in a pull-up at nap or bedtime to go. We let them wear the pull-ups for a few months and then we took them away. They had been training long enough to know that they had 2 choices...to go in their undies or potty! They say girls are easier than boys and I didn't find that was true, but the overnight training was a lot easier than with my son.

Good luck!! Being a mommy of twins is double the work, but you have double the blessings :)

My little guy is too young to potty train; however, i learned in my child psych class that when training boys if you put a couple of cheerios in the toilet and tell them to aim (make a game of it) they are more likely to take an interest. Good luck!!

Hi K.,
I have 3 1/2 old twin (boy/girl) twins. My Daughter potty trained fairly easily. My Son on the other hand. He wasn't interested at first so I backed off. When he finally did come around, he had TONS of accidents and it was pretty aggravating.. had to bite my tongue. Then I found this toliet just for boys. It's called the Peter Potty. Bought it online via Walmart.com It's an adjustable urinal. He absoulty loves it. It's been about 2 weeks now and NO accidents. They are both in pull ups at nap and bedtime though.

Hope this helps :)

Hi K.,

I just read Meg's post and it sounds almost the same as to what I was going to post except it was the other way around for me. (My daughter was the one who showed more of an interest, and my son was the one who wasn't as interested.) I didn't push him and in a few months he seemed ready to train. It was still nice having at least one out of diapers for those few months. And then ....when my son joined his twin sister in being potty trained, it was such a treat for me to be completely done with the diaper stage.