Ready To Start Potty Training??

[Scout]

I really don't think so but, thought you guys have more experience with this.
Ds is 18 mos old, doesn't even walk yet. Can walk, but is lazy! I keep telling him to tell me when he poops(jokingly) so I can change him right away since sometimes I can't tell! He came up to me today holding his crotch area & actually said poop! I cracked up, he did poop!! Very smart little cookie. Anyone ever experience this with such a young one?

[cheerfuldom]

I really don't think so but, thought you guys have more experience with this.
Ds is 18 mos old, doesn't even walk yet. Can walk, but is lazy! I keep telling him to tell me when he poops(jokingly) so I can change him right away since sometimes I can't tell! He came up to me today holding his crotch area & actually said poop! I cracked up, he did poop!! Very smart little cookie. Anyone ever experience this with such a young one?

if he is not readily cooperative in walking, I personally would not train yet. potty training will just become a battle. it can be pretty challenging so beginning with a child that does not even want to walk to the bathroom, let alone cooperate once there, seems like a headache waiting to happen. I dont think being able to verbalize that they have already pooped is necessarily a signal that they are ready to start telling you BEFORE they go and are ready to get to the potty in time.

[MarinaVanessa]

I agree with cheerful mom. If he shows interest however go ahead and take him and praise him if he actually goes in the toilet. If he tells you before he goes poop you can ask him if he wants to sit on the potty but don't force him. If he tells you that he has already gone to the bathroom he's just telling you "HEY, change my diaper!!"

My DS is 25 months and he started asking to sit on the toilet so we would take him when he asked. He'd just sit there and push but wouldn't actually go. A few times he pooted (farted) and said "I did it" so it's telling me that he's getting there but isn't quite ready yet. Yesterday he pooped once and pee'd once in the toilet and we congratulated him of course but we still aren't going to push him. We remind him to tell us if he has to go sit on the potty but that's about it.

That's awesome that your DS is already recognising his bodily function and needs though. You're one step closer to a Potty Party

[Scout]

I didn't actually think he was ready. Just thought it was hilarious & cute that he knew he needed changed.

[Holiday Park]

I did Elimination communication with my son since he was around 2 months of age. It is not about potty training but because the baby does learn bodily awareness the baby/toddler inadvertently(sp?) does sometimes become independantly toilet learned on their own . Anyway he was just 9months when he started signing for potty . He is 15 months and asks to use the potty several times a day. Changing a poopy diaper is a rare accurance. I even have my almost 14 month old dcg pooping on the potty now. He still wears diapers but not so I can just have him do all his eliminating in it, but primarily as "back up" . Some times he tells me after he's gone and sometimes he tells me right before. He isn't walking yet (expert cruiser, but also lazy) so I take him to the potty.
Check out diaperfreebaby.org . 18 months is old for E.C. But certainly not too young for toilet training . You just have to be understanding that although infants&toddlers are fully capable of being potty trained (and they are !) they can't hold it for very long periods of time and you have to offer lots of "potty-tunities" . Also, they are more distractable and so it's much harder for a younger little one to remember to tell you . If you can give him access to a potty he can get to on his own or that he can at least point to, telling you can be made easier. He will have a visual reminder.
I only keep two little ones at one time and they are not EC'd like him. But even with that low number of kids here , it makes it very hard to supervise . Now that they all either cruising or walking, I have to sit him on the potty on the outside of the gate in the hall way. Its easier now that Ihabe a play yard too, so I can seperate the other ones when taking him potty . But it may be very difficult t keep up with taking a little one so often to the potty if you have more toddlers ( or infants) than me.

[Holiday Park]

Oh and fyi , I did the 1 day method with my daughter the day she turned 19 months . She was not very verbal yet , but ahe was walking and understood a LOT intellectually. She is advanced in school and will be getting tested for the gifted program (2nd grade) so I don't know if she was just advanced then too. But she got it in one day ! I worked with her one on one all day long. From that day on, all I had to do was leave the potty out for her, and wipe her went she went. She would carry and pour the contents into the big toilet all by herself. And was in underwear. I kept her in pull ups at night time for just in case but she never had an accident.

[Scout]

Oh and fyi , I did the 1 day method with my daughter the day she turned 19 months . She was not very verbal yet , but ahe was walking and understood a LOT intellectually. She is advanced in school and will be getting tested for the gifted program (2nd grade) so I don't know if she was just advanced then too. But she got it in one day ! I worked with her one on one all day long. From that day on, all I had to do was leave the potty out for her, and wipe her went she went. She would carry and pour the contents into the big toilet all by herself. And was in underwear. I kept her in pull ups at night time for just in case but she never had an accident.

good for you!! Smart little one you have there!