Hi Vickster, I have a 2 year old boy and started potty trainig him when he was around 1 year and 8 months. I knew he was ready to be potty trained when he use to run into a next room to do a no 2 or you would see him bending down doind a no 2 in his nappy, lol. Me and his dad both sat down with or son and told him is getting a big boy like daddy. and basically said what big boys do. This might shound funny/crazy but his dad sat on the potty to show him what to do and once he done that our son always went on the potty. (I throught his dad was crazy but it work!!) Th first time our son done a wee and poo on the potty we treated him and took him to toy r us. His great on going to the potty, but the only thing we need to work on is for him to always put his winky down when doing a wee lol. Very proud of him.