https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:04:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2288294 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 04:30:28 +0000 808love 2288294@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When you don't buy diapers or pull ups anymore. And generally no night accidents. </p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286836 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:38:37 +0000 Mrs. Bee 2286836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>no diapers, no accidents, and can go to the bathroom on their own.</p> <p>olive still needs help with wiping poop though because she doesn't do a good job. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286835 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:38:37 +0000 LilSprinkles 2286835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: @Alivoo01: I agree with both of you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286783 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:05:34 +0000 Applesandbananas 2286783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Interesting! I think of potty trained as minimal assistance and minimal prompting, with no daytime accidents. I think of bed wetting as a different beast! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286714 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:09:56 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2286714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I'm not changing diapers and not cleaning pee off of the floor I call it potty trained.<br /> 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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286693 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:48:11 +0000 BandDmommy 2286693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: agree </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286644 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:05:17 +0000 Kemma 2286644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286476 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:37:44 +0000 Mamaof2 2286476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: I think this is typical of all kids - heck my 7 yr old has been PT for 4 yrs and he still does the potty dance and I am like Hello!!! Do you have to pee :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286468 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:30:17 +0000 wonderstruck 2286468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: I agree with this.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286350 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:08:14 +0000 looch 2286350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: my son is the same, he will sometimes know that he needs to go, but doesn't want to take the break. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286326 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:44:26 +0000 blackbird 2286326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286319 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:37:56 +0000 lamariniere 2286319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: @Alivoo01: agree with these. But at least once a day I notice my son doing the peepee dance and I ask him if he needs to go or tell him to go. He's 4.5 so he has been out of diapers for nearly 2 years, but he still doesn't go right away when he needs to. That said, accidents are pretty rare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286315 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:32:53 +0000 LuLu Mom 2286315@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: +1. </p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286311 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:27:47 +0000 Alivoo01 2286311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The child goes to the bathroom unprompted and as needed, with no accidents (day or night) for both #1 and #2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286202 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 23:09:57 +0000 looch 2286202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286198 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:57:37 +0000 Corduroy 2286198@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The "fully" kind of throws me. If a 2 year old was not nighttime trained I would probably say they aren't "fully" potty trained. However, I would say a 7 year old that has accidents at night would be described as "fully" potty trained bedwetter.</p> <p>I would say unprompted, independent use of the potty with infrequent (daytime) accidents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286188 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:23:27 +0000 littlejoy 2286188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>To me ... it's when LO will go to the bathroom, unprompted, and doesn't need help with getting onto the toilet.</p> <p>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! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286178 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:48:33 +0000 cascademom 2286178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I define it as no assistance needed in the potty and no need for a midnight potty break. We aren't totally there yet, but getting there. E was potty trained early, so his body is catching up with the training a year plus later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286155 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:06:32 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2286155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p>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.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-consider-fully-potty-trained#post-2286153 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:03:21 +0000 Applesandbananas 2286153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It seems like it means something different to everyone! </p>