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I know a little girl who flat it refused to use diapers at 18 months and was fully potty trained (her choice, not moms). But she would still make a big mess in the bathroom and things like that, being really young to understand that you can't woo stuff on the walls or whatever (I do not know why mom didn't go with her every time knowing this!). No idea on the accidents front since I'm not that close to them.

18 months but i dont believe it i think the person was fibbing.

My niece was fully potty trained at 18 months. She basically did it overnight. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it myself. Haha

My sister was potty trained around 15 months. My parents didn't want to spend anymore money on diapers and just let her roam around pantless in the summer. The only reason I believe it is because I remember her pooping on the floor.

We potty trained DD when she was 23 months and most people are SHOCKED when I tell them that she's potty trained. But she really does tell me that she needs to go like, 90% of the time.

Probably the youngest I've seen is like my DD, just before 2 years old.

Our son potty trained early. I'm definitely not an expert, because we sort of "winged it", but i think it worked out well and was fairly easy.

When he showed interest around 17-18 months we just left a baby potty out and accessible to him, and he would sit on it when he wanted, we might have put him on it maybe a couple times after a meal or before bedtime. Pretty quickly he started actually using it each time he sat down, we switched from diapers to pull ups during the day. We would give him a jellybean or M&M each time he actually used the potty. We didn't push it or do a "three day method", but he would prefer the potty pretty consistently over the next month or two. He was in undies by 20-21 months after consistently keeping his pull up dry all day long for a couple of weeks. He only had one accident after that, maybe a couple of pee spots on his undies if we couldn't get him to a bathroom in time. He just turned three and is still in diapers at night, but those are dry about 50% of the time, and he is starting to announce when his diaper is dry in the morning so i think that will probably switch soon too. We have actually been fairly laid back about the whole process, so to me it was very easy.

Now my daughter just turned 17 months and is completely uninterested in the potty so I think we will probably have to do some type of a traditional potty training for her.

I do think those three day methods are probably a little rough for early potty training.

Me at 14 months. In my family learning to walk means you're ready for toilet training.

@regberadaisy: crazy!

I think my friends daughter was like 21 months. She's a crazy smart little thing. My grandpa claims my aunt was 9 months

Me! My mom potty trained me at 18 months. I actually asked the ped, and she said culturally African-Americans potty train earlier in their experience. We plan to do the same.

I think kids are developmentally ready very early, it's just a longer process! I know there are places where everyone starts training well before one.

We started training DS at six months, and by 18 months he was out of diapers. My mom thought that was late He's still in diapers at night at three, but that runs in the family so I don't think early training was to blame... I started training his little sister at 5 months because she's an earlier sitter, and she's definitely enjoying having another option besides diapers. I still often can't tell when she needs to go, but we'll get there when she's ready.

She's not too young!

DD was potty trained at 15 months. We did elimination communication when she was a baby then 3 day potty training at 15 months. She was day and night trained.

My mom claims I was a year old when i was trained. Also, I used to work at a Montessori school and a daycare and I knew several kids who were potty trained by the time they aged into my (toddler) room, so before 18 months.

Yes I heard of as early as 6mo thru elimination communication.. We tried it a little with my son but had to stop for "health" reasons (it's complicated).

My parents' generation allll say we were all potty trained after turning 1, and for sure before 2.

We kind of started experimenting/training again starting.... Gosh I don't know. Maybe 18 mo? But we didn't get serious about it til he was 20-21 mo? Now at 22 mo he is potty trained but not for naps and night time. But honestly as pp mentioned its him being trained but it's the parents right.. I gotta remember to remind him and ask him and take him every hour when we are out.

Someone I know said her daughter just choose to go on the potty at 18 months and that was that. I believe her too - she definitely wasn't bragging about it and seemed surprised herself!

Edited to add that at our daughter's 18 month appointment the doctor suggested starting to put her on the potty as some kids start expressing interest. Ours doesn't!

6 months.

Friends of ours sort of stumbled accidentally into EC by playfully holding their baby over a kiddy toilet and she started pooping in there every single time. .... Yeah. I guess that doesn't count as toilet trained but I'm still amazed.

most kids were potty trained before 1 1/2 in Korea because they handwashed cloth diapers in my generation. I was potty trained at 14 months when my brother was born because my mom said there was no way in the world she was going to wash cloth diapers for 2! but i think these days it's the same in korea as it is in the states around 2.