Many doctors or psychologists will tell you not to potty train until your child is 3 or 4 years old. Some even say that the child should not be potty trained; that they will learn to go to the toilet themselves when they are ready, which they say is between 4 and 5 years old. Personally, I don’t know how and where they got their stats because I’ve found the exact opposite.
Throughout my many years of potty training, I have found that parents who begin introducing the idea of potty training to their children at a very young age have quicker and easier success than those parents who they wait until the child is much older.
Younger children are more impressionable, they do not notice their ways. The closer a child gets to three years of age, the more he establishes himself in his way of acting. They are comfortable in their diaper and the way they do things.
The older the child, the more difficult and the longer it takes for parents to teach their child to go to the bathroom. Children of this age know how to control the situation and use their control. They are also very comfortable with the way things are, so it’s hard to get them to change.
I have found that most children by the age of 22 months are potty ready and can be potty trained in as little as three days. Why wait for a child to turn 4? Why make it harder for him later? Why change diapers for another two years?
Is your child 3 or 4 years old already? Well, the good news is that it is not too late. You too can learn to go to the bathroom in as little as three days. You may have a little more fighting on your hands, but it can be done!
Now, I am not a doctor or a psychologist, but I am a mother of 6 children and I have had 8 adopted children. I have also successfully helped over 2,100 children around the world to potty train. Personally, I feel like I’m an expert on potty training. So, in my “expert” opinion, I think that if you learn to go to the bathroom early you will succeed faster and easier.
At EasyPottyTraining.com you can find a potty training guide that provides a fail-safe test to assess your little one’s readiness. If your little one can pass this simple test, then he’s ready to potty-train.