Are girls easier to potty train than boys?

I don't know. I parent boys. We had an easy though sometimes slow time with my oldest. :)

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At about age 2, I bought all the potty training equipment for my daughter (her BFF is 6mo older and was training at the same time). I banged my head against the wall for about 2 weeks, while her friend seemed to just pick it right up. I was frustrated and gave up.

Almost 6mo later, my daughter awoke one morning and declared that she was a big girl and was not going to be wearing diapers any longer. It has been 8 weeks and she has but one accident and that was due to a button on her shorts that she hasn't quite mastered. when people asked me how I trained her, I tell tham that I had nothing to do with it. She was simply ready.

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I'll tell you in a year or so. My boy turned 3 on Sunday, we started potty training yesterday. It's going so-so - we're about 20 pairs of underpants down. He usually makes it, except when he is concentrating on something else. My daughter just turned 1, and I fully anticipate she will be done by two. a) because she is a girl, and b) because she is a second child, and therefore has an immediate role model. All of my son's boy-cousins were hell to potty train, and some are still struggling at 6. All the girls are fine and were done by 28 months.

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I have 2 girlfriends , 1 has a daughter and the other has twin sons.
these 3 kids are 2 days apart and the daughter and 1 twin is mastering the potty and the other just simply isn't ready.

It really just depends on the kids

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My oldest was easy...now my second? I'll let you know as soon as he ain't afraid of the toliet....we tried letting him sit on the toliet and he fell in...so now he won't sit on it...lol...play in it yes, but no sitting...lol

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My mother said my oldest brother was the easiest out of 3 of us (and I'm a girl, and we have one younger brother), but I think she's factoring in night training which I don't think counts (studies seem to indicate it's a genetic predisposition). My grandmother said my mom was easier than her brothers, but she also held her over the potty before she could stand. She was the first born so I guess grandma had a lot of time on her hands...

I have one son who potty trained at 3.5 yo. I always said he easily got the who, what, when, where and how...but took forever on the why. My co-worker has a son and we seemed to have similar experience. They got the "why" at approximately the same time. I have two friends with daughters and they both trained earlier than our boys (18 mos and 2 yo).

I have another son (5 months old) and I'm already seeing personality differences that (I hope) will mean easier potty training. My oldest couldn't care less if his diaper was wet, but this one obviously hates a wet diaper.

I think it's personality that determines when it will happen more than gender, but I think my (unscientific) poll seems to weigh in favor of the girls training earlier in general.

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In my own limited experience this has been true. My own daughter (and apparently my step-daughter, though I didn't meet her until she was older) were both potty trained by age 2 or so. My first son was 3 1/2, but when he decided to train, it was very very easy, and all done within a couple days.

My 27-month-old son has shown very little interest yet, although we are going to try her in a couple weeks when my husband has a week off work and we have nothing else to do.

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I have two girls. My oldest was completely done (totally accident free) a month after she turned 2. My youngest turned 2 July 9. Everything is in her own time and I know she'll wake up and do it one day, I just hope that day is soon. In the meantime, we are trying to encourage her that maybe the time is today?

I think it depends on the kid and the parent. Lazy parents have kids who don't want to do it or are afraid. Introduce them early so they are not afraid. Both of my girls sat on the potty starting about age 1.

I have a friend who didn't even introduce her son to the potty until he was 3. By then he didn't want to do it and was afraid of the potty. He turned 4 in February and still has several accidents a day.

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(I linked this article earlier today)

As the parent of four I think it all depends if you are training them when they themselves are ready. If you aren't it might prove to be almost IMPOSSIBLE, lol. My first (a boy) was the easiest, my second was okay, the third (2&3 were girls) was doing great until the toilet ate her. I'm currently in potty training mode with boy and he's #4. We'll see how he goes.

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Maybe same each one another.

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I wish someone would tell my daughter that girls are supposed to be easy to potty train. She's 3 years 8 months and flat out refuses to use the potty. She'd rather sit in her own filth and have pee running down her leg....

Yeah, I'm a wee bit frustrated, and nearing the end of my rope.

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I think it depends on the kid because my cousin potty trained her eldest son by the time he was 1 1/2 and her other sons were potty trained by 3 and her daughter (the youngest) has been using the potty for almost 2 years and she is going to be 5.

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I have no personal experience with potty training little boys, but I had, gosh, 13 or 14 nephews before I had a niece. Some of the boys took to it easier than the others. One of my sisters-in-law with a boy and a girl said it was easier for girls to feel the urge to urinate than little boys. I'm not sure if this is true or not.

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I have a boy and a girl. My daughter was much easier to potty train took about 1 week of reward stickers. My son took months, and rewards stiickers didn't work.

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