At what age did you start TT/TA With your child?

[tikki]

Originally Posted by betty

and can also lead to serious psychological problems if it is forceful and fear-inducing. Psychology is really into looking at how children were TT to understand personality disorders and traits such as Obsessive compulsive disorder.

interestingly, there's a really bizarred documentary on Hitler that connects some of his "issues" with the manner in which he was toilet trained. It had me totally fascinated!!!

[Bec259]

Originally Posted by tikki

interestingly, there's a really bizarred documentary on Hitler that connects some of his "issues" with the manner in which he was toilet trained. It had me totally fascinated!!!

He blames his truely horrific & sadistic nature on how he was toilet trained? Well, that's different.

[Pandamum]

Thanks for all the reponses.

I think we might just try for more nappy free time, introduce the idea of the toilet and start talking about it more. I think that will be enough at this stage and we'll see what happens.

The general consensus seems to be to wait until they are 'ready'. As someone who thought this was the best way to go and waited until dd's were almost 3 - I really question this now - I think I actually missed their best 'window' of opportunity. I also came under huge amounts of criticism for not starting earlier.

Will see how we go.

Originally Posted by marniehau

I started toilet learning with my DDs a lot earlier than 12 months - but you didn't give me an option for that ;-)

I wanted to have an under 12 months and a 3yrs and over for that matter, but poll options are limited so I went with the age groups that I thought would be most likely. Judging by the replies these were the best to go for anyway. EC is not a new concept to me