toilet training

noun

: the process of training a child to control bladder and bowel movements and to use the toilet

toilet train transitive verb

Examples of toilet training in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Avoid making the move if your child is in the throes of toilet training, giving up a pacifier, or getting used to a new child care arrangement, for example. —Laura Broadwell, Parents, 18 Mar. 2025

In 2015, Judy Abrahams invented a child-friendly and adjustable toilet seat designed to improve the toilet training experience for toddlers. —Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024

The most common reasons parents turn to social media include toilet training (44%), child sleep issues (42%), nutrition/lactation (37%), and discipline (37%).1 Experts aren’t that surprised. —Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023

During toilet training, which usually happens by the age of 3 or 4 in the U.S., kids learn how to use the toilet voluntarily. —Jennifer Ahn, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2023

Children with autism, for example, may have delayed toilet training or sensory issues, where flushing sounds can create discomfort. —Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2023

There’s now no shortage of guidance for raising children through early developmental milestones, from toilet training and getting your kid to sleep through the night to steering them through the turbulence of adolescence. —Julie Halpert, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022

Ten years ago, showgoers got an eyeful of the iPotty, a toilet training device for kids that had an iPad attached to it. —Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2022

For Perez’s son, the family started noticing a difference in his toilet training behaviors just a few months after treatment began. —Leah Campbell, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for toilet training

• appertaining
• ascertaining
• entertaining
• uncomplaining
• abstaining
• attaining
• campaigning
• complaining
• constraining
• containing
• detaining
• disdaining

Medical Definition

toilet training

noun

toilet train·​ing -ˌtrān-iŋ 

: the process of training a child to control bladder and bowel movements and to use the toilet

toilet train

-ˌtrān 

transitive verb