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I know a lot of people want to have their kids trained at an early age but many stats show that it's normal for kids to learn between 2 and 3 and even later. I hear of so many parents who start early and do half the work for months and months. I tried to get my ds to go at two. He showed signs but was only 75% ready so after a week I said, forget it. At 2.5 he was 85% ready, so after a week I said forget it. I was advised by an individual who works for Treehouse TV and had 6 kids to wait until he was older if I didn't want to sit there and do half the work for another year and he was right. He said both his girls and boys had no problem at 3, but no younger. My son turned 3 a few weeks ago and told me he was ready. I believe he was 100% ready because he learned to go to the toilet (our toilet with an attachment...in the past he'd only play with potty) in 2 days. It's been almost a month now and he only had two accidents in the first week. He has never wet the bed either and wears underwear to sleep, he does his business (#1 and 2) and even wipes his butt himself, plus makes a point of washing his hands. He leaves the door open but I'm not even allowed to go in when he's busy. LOL. Also, he wakes up in the middle of the night, and goes to the bathroom on his own and then back to bed, plus holds it while shopping until we can find a bathroom (he asks)!! I think to do all of these tasks they just have to be older. Then they just do them all at once.

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