I was so excited for this week

[bright sparks]

Glad you are feeling more upbeat. I had the same feeling last week and then on Friday we went out for 2 long leisurely walks in the sunshine and that seemed to reboot me.

Yeah, I've had that early declaration of a child being trained. Kids will first succeed at home and then they have to master the toilet at daycare. Pull ups are a definite must until they use the potty successfully at daycare for a few weeks. Can this child even tell you they have to go?
Good luck with this parent!!

That is also what I was thinking Mimi. Not only is there the physiological capability of controlling bladder and bowel but the ability to communicate their need independently.When children claim to have been trained this early I hazard a guess that it is more like conditioned and partially trained not completely dry and out of pull ups/training pants within a few weeks, regardless of what anyone says. Never understand why some people rush to train so early when it would serve the child better to focus on more important psychosocial development at this age. I notice more and more that first child is rushed by parents, seems to be a bit of a competition, and then second child is held back as though parents don't want to lose their baby. Obviously that's a generalization but it is what I seem to be noticing more and more. In my experience when training is to early, it nearly always backfires at some point. I will not even entertain training a boy until 2 years and in most cases, depending on the child of course, I quite often recommend pushing it back till 2 1/2. The earliest I will do for girls is 2 but I have had a couple of girls a month or two younger ask to try the potty when an older one is training here who have resulted in unplanned training in a couple of days to the delight of parents but I'm talking 22 months at the youngest and it's a girl thing for sure. 16months is barely out of infancy. Fingers crossed it all goes well for you, there's always "that child" who breaks all the rules of development and if they do succeed then that's great news all around