Wait til he seems interested... Go with the flow while he's little. (No pun intended). Let him give clues that he's ready or interested in it. If he can undress and dress himself there's another clue. Lots of parents wait until 3 because kids are more likely to be mature enough to handle the chore of potty training but if your kid is interested don't hesitate to start working on it. Some kids are simply ready earlier then others.

my son is 17 months. i have had a potty for about 1-2 months now. I am just letting him get used to having it in the house.

boys are always the hardest to train. i would recommend getting the potty and allowing your son to explore it. then sit him on it fully clothed so he gets used of the idea of sitting on it. then move to sitting him on it with a diaper on. finally sit him on the potty without the diaper.

i would do each step for a few months before moving to the next one.

i am in the process of getting my son used to the potty and sitting him on it fully clothed. he usually tells me when hes wet and wants a dry diaper on right now.

i'm in process of potty training Olivia, she is already two but only recently took an interest, she started taking her nappy off, so i bought some knickers to wear ( not all of the time) she sits on the potty (which i call the toilet) she signs toilet when she wants to go and sit on the toilet, she has'nt done anything yet, but has made puddles on the floor x2 but mainly stays dry...its still a game to her to ask for toilet lol

He might be too young for potty training, but you can always try potty timing with him. To be able to do that successfully, you have to be consistent with feeding times. If he has a set time that he goes to the bathroom everyday, take off his diaper and set him on a potty. I've been doing this since my daughter was 6 months old. It does help get a child used to using a potty and will cut back on diaper use.

When you first start, it helps to strip him down to just a diaper. Watch for any body language when he's about to go to the bathroom. You'll soon find out that he will give subtle hints when he does. My daughter does a little pee-pee dance, alternating shifting her weight between each foot. For number 2, she goes rigid in a standing position and will sometimes go up on her tippy toes. A lot of kids give similar signs. My nephew used to grab at his shirt and pull down on it every time he had to go.

I'm not in any hurry to potty train my daughter. She's nowhere near ready yet. Putting too much pressure about it will only make it less appealing. She has gone through a few stages of being anti-potty, but they tend to pass quickly. For the most part, my daughter loves her potty- it sings to her and gives her praise. It makes her laugh. She'll be 2 next month.

We started our little one out by just introducing the potty to her. We started this at about 19 months. We talked about it alot and even got a potty book that she likes to read. We got a potty chair but has the removable seat in the middle that will fit on a regular toilet. She likes to sit on the toilet. We started letting her sit on it with her cloths on and then slowly moved into removing her diaper to sit on the toilet.
After a couple of months she turned 2. At 2 she asks to go potty in the big girl potty. She is always wet when she askes but at least she knows being wet means she needs to go to the potty. We have put her in big girl panties with pull ups over them so she can feel it when she is wet right away instead of filling up the diaper to realize she is wet. With this change she is asking right away now instead of waiting till she had a full diaper to go potty.
We just started this phase of potty training so I'll have to get back to you on how well it works, however, it worked wonders with my cousin and her 2 girls.

The only thing I know about potty training a boy is this... It is best to teach them to sit on the potty and use it first and then move to standing up. Otherwise you are asking for peepee on the shower curtain, walls, and prob even yourself. LOL. A friend of mine has a boy and while trying to potty train him he got so excited he hit the potty while standing he turned around and peed all over his mom.

I started potty training my daughter at 18 months. It was fun and interesting for a little while and then she lept way back and refused to use the potty at all. It turned into a frustrating and hard battling process. I finally got her completely trained with very rare accidents when she was 32 months old so this was a verrrrry long process for me. I finally had to force her to run around the house all day with no panties nor diapers because she would not potty otherwise.

I introduced the potty to Logan around 18 months, and he liked sitting on it and found it to be fun and he liked it. Then when he was 2, it was ALL over and he wanted nothing to do with the potty.My Ped told me to wait till he is 2 1/2 to reintroduce it to him. I dont want to wait, but he has to be willling to do it and I cannot force him. Otherwise you can turn the potty into unpleasent feelings and then it will take even longer