baby led potty training

You’ll get mums claiming kids of 3 or 4 aren’t “ready” so sending them to nursery or even reception in nappies, yet years ago most kids were out of nappies by 2 or 2.5 at the latest. Disposables make it too easy to not put the effort in. I’m not talking about SN children btw.

My two were in terry towelling nappies, but not potty trained by 5 months! Probably closer to 1 - 2 years, which was considered quite normal. I think facial expressions are a clue to when they need to use the potty. Well done to your daughter, babushka.

My mum and her sister swore by this on all the children in the family. They said to feed and then hold the baby on the potty.
It never worked for my own and my mother was never with us enough to get the practice going. She did seem to know by my baby's facial expressions when to do it.
My second child did get themselves out of nappies by 18 months by copying their older sibling. They both wore towelling nappies and the second one hated them.

My dgs2 has basically toilet trained himself!, He leads us to the toilet when he needs a poo. Having a big brother has helped because he copies him

My mum swore by this for we 3, born 1949, 1953 and 58.
Washing and drying nappies and clothes was a much more demanding task than it is now, so the incentive to get children dry was there.

I left my children till age 2, then set to potty training at a tie when I had two weeks off work to do it. It was effective potty training

I too think it’s lazy parenting due to disposable nappies we have 4 year olds coming in the shop with stinky nappies hanging akimbo
All three of mine were out of nappies (that needed hand washing as no washing machine in them dark days) before one year old
All my grandkids were potty trained by one yr old as well ….
none wore disposables

Well done. I’ve got three to four year olds not potty trained in my class. By lazy parenting just my opinion after twenty three years!