--- title: How to Potty Train a Toddler in 22 Easy Steps description: You may not want to. She may not listen (even after getting reward candy). But one day, you will succeed. One faraway day... canonical: https://time.com/4919208/potty-train-toddler-video/ author: La Guardia Cross article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-28T19:08:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:11:59.194Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Potty Train a Toddler in 22 Easy Steps og:description: Even if you don't want to. Even if she doesn't respond to reward candy og:url: https://time.com/4919208/potty-train-toddler-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Potty Train a Toddler in 22 Easy Steps twitter:description: Even if you don't want to. Even if she doesn't respond to reward candy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Potty Train a Toddler in 22 Easy Steps by [La Guardia Cross](https://time.com/author/la-guardia-cross/) ## La Guardia Cross Aug 28, 2017 7:08 PM UTC by [La Guardia Cross](https://time.com/author/la-guardia-cross/) ## La Guardia Cross Aug 28, 2017 7:08 PM UTC After buying a potty one and a half years ago and hoping my daughter would magically become potty trained, one and a half years passed and she wasn’t. I decided to take things seriously. These are the 22 steps that taught my daughter the ancient art of not peeing on herself. It only took four days, but the four days felt like 40 months. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4919208/potty-train-toddler-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4919208/potty-train-toddler-video/"},"headline":"How to Potty Train a Toddler in 22 Easy Steps","datePublished":"2017-08-28T19:08:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:11:59.194Z","description":"Even if you don't want to. Even if she doesn't respond to reward candy","url":"https://time.com/4919208/potty-train-toddler-video/","keywords":["Parenting"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"La Guardia Cross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/la-guardia-cross/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/parenting/","name":"Parenting"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4919208/potty-train-toddler-video/","name":"How to Potty Train a Toddler in 22 Easy Steps"}}]}] ```