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I guess the point where they no longer need any adult assistance in using the bathroom (or anything that comes along with that.) 24/7.

While I wouldn't describe my daughter as fully potty trained (we are still working on wiping, putting clothes back on, and we haven't bothered with nights) I also don't anticipate any daytime accidents anytime soon. (I'm sure I just jinxed it though.)

To me ... it's when LO will go to the bathroom, unprompted, and doesn't need help with getting onto the toilet.

At 20 months, she rarely has accidents, but we have to prompt her nearly every time, and she cannot take her pants off or climb on the toilet by herself. I feel like she's "potty trained" but not potty trained!

To me, it means that a child responds to the urge to go to the bathroom, night or day. This means waking at night to use the bathroom rather than sleeping through and happening to wake up dry ( night training isn't something that can be influenced, it is a physiological response and a child is either able to wake or not).

@Alivoo01: +1.

We are "potty" trained but not fully. LO still wears a pull up at night because she sleeps too deep and doesn't wake up to go. She's 80% dry in the mornings, but the 20% makes me still put a pull up on her at night.

I consider E potty trained even though I have to put her up on the adult toilet when she asks--she will use the little toilet by herself, unprompted, though. She's not very good at putting clothes on/off for it (they all usually just come off) but she goes in the toilet consistently and almost never has an accident. It's also not really a battle anymore. She says she has to go, asks for help, and I put her up there and she goes.

@Alivoo01: I agree with this.

I wouldn't say no adult assistance, because if LO knows he needs to go but needs help getting on the toilet or wiping his butt or whatever, I still count that as potty trained.

I would say they're potty trained when they can recognise they need to pee / poop during the day and take themselves to the toilet without assistance 95% of the time (and if they're away from home). If a child still needs to be reminded to pee every two hours then I wouldn't say they're toilet trained. As an example, Miss A has been out of nappies during the day since January but it's only in the last couple of months that she developed the independence to be in charge of her own toileting or be confident to take herself to the loo at preschool.

I consider day and night toileting to be two separate issues because for some kinds night time control is not within their "control" so much.

If I'm not changing diapers and not cleaning pee off of the floor I call it potty trained.
DD has had one partial accident in two months and is dry for naps and over night. I don't call her potty trained. Maybe when I don't have any lingering anxiety of her having an accident.

@looch: @Alivoo01: I agree with both of you.

When you don't buy diapers or pull ups anymore. And generally no night accidents.

Prompting and putting clothes on falls under gross motor skills and parent release issues so I don't see that as stipulations on being fully potty trained.