Wait until they’re well and truly ready (until you are well and truly ready!) is my number one tip; no medals for getting them potty trained really early. Although I tried to potty train them at the same time, I found that one took the lead. I just went with it. Oh and try to wait until summer to do it. Less layers to get wet if there’s an accident when you’re out and plenty of opportunities for potty training nappy-less in the garden!

Your comment also made me chuckle 🙂

They all get there in the end!!

I bow down to the parent of triplets, but the sleep deprivation of twins with a toddler, who insisted on getting up at 5.00am every day and going out was challenging in its own way. I remember going to a Sure Start Centre with my eldest when the twins were a week old and everyone thought I was crazy. The fact of the matter was I was actually crazier at home with a two year old running around needing attention. It was actually easier to just get out of the house!!

Yeah, I have triplets and I imagine having an older kid along for the ride would make everything tricky. As hard as triplets are, I can’t imagine doing the no-sleep thing with a little one running around.

I got them potty trained a few months before their third birthday in the end, and was so glad that we waited. They got it really quickly by that point.

The boot camp sounds interesting. I did consider that – and can really see the benefits – but having an older child made it a bit tricky. Even if I’d signed up to spending three days camped out in the toilet with the twins, she certainly wouldn’t have!!

Thanks for sharing the link; very enjoyable post to read.

I think there are a lot of good reasons to wait, if you can. They have much better cognitive understanding of what you expect, and their bladders are much stronger and bigger.

I documented our adventures in potty-training our triplets here: http://triplethedad.blogspot.com/2014/10/adventures-in-potty-training-triplets.html