I’m including some shots of Kim Kardashian’s Love Magazine editorial/multiple covers in this post. Is it just me or is this whole Steven Klein shoot a real snooze? I mean, it was never going to be as newsworthy as her Paper Magazine editorial, but surely Klein could have found something more interesting to do with Kim and Cara Delevingne. It’s almost as if these elite fashion photographers don’t really give a crap about photographing Kim, right?
In other Kim K. news, Kim has a new interview with People Magazine. It’s nothing amazing, but she does give an update on little North West.
Kim Kardashian West is one busy mama…and she’s more than ready to add to the welcome chaos. “We’ve really been trying for another kid,” Kardashian, 34, tells PEOPLE in the new issue. “More kids can’t come soon enough!”
Along with husband Kanye West, the family of three recently moved into a new Los Angeles home and they’re relishing life as parents — all of it. North “is so smart,” she says proudly. “She is halfway potty trained, which is insane for her age. Last night she looked up at the sky and pointed and said, ‘Moon, Mom! Moon!’ I couldn’t believe she knew that.”
And the little lady sure is keeping her parents on their toes. Recently, “she took Kanye’s phone and put it in the toilet and flushed it!” says Kardashian with a laugh.
How old is North now? Let’s see…North was born on June 15, 2013. So she’s about 19 months old, she’ll be two years old this June. Is that early for potty training? I think it is. I think the common time frame is between the second and third birthdays? And I think the most telling piece of information is that North knew the moon and Kim had no idea how North knew that. My guess? The nanny taught her.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Steven Klein/LOVE.
19 months is early but not insane – plenty of kids start around then (though since girls typically potty train earlier than boys it’s almost always little girls that train that early). Basically it’s like bragging you got the big iPhone 6 – sure, not everyone got one, but its not like one had to be bestowed upon you by the ghost of Steve Jobs.
The average female child is potty trained by 38 months and the average male child is potty trained by 39 months. Basically it’s normal be fully potty trained after the age of 3. I always think it’s super weird when people brag about potty training. Who cares?
Where are you getting these ages? Anecdotally, most female children I know (and I know a lot) are fully potty trained by 30 months, which is 2.5 years old, with some outliers starting at a year and a half. Boys on the other hand by about 3.5-4 years of age.
Personally, I don’t really get bragging on the subject… it’s not like it means that someone’s kid is smarter than another, nor does it mean that someone is a ‘better’ parent. Some kids just develop in different ways in different speeds. Though I knew one mom who’s kid could identify the periodic table of elements by 18 months, and that was pretty cool.
Before I had my beautiful son, i never considered what age a child would be categorized as , ” should be potty trained”. As a first time mother of a 3.5 year old super bright boy who, after cancer, is my only, hubby and I are still diligently running the gammot of every parental potty training advise. He’s close, but not quite there. Hard to say when they’ll be ready. It’s a delicate tutaledge and judging a child or their parents is a poorly built structure for argument. I can’t imagine why anyone would decide to make this particular issue an issue.
Is that the normal age? My family is from asia and i am 8 year older than my sister so i can vividly remembering potty training her. We potty trained her around the same time as she started to talk. I remember she only knew a handful of words. I think she was 1-1.5 years old? she was out of diapers before two. I remember having to carry her to the potty and sitting her down and calling mom to wipe her every time she say potty. I had to carry her because she couldn’t walk that far without falling yet…
Where are these stats from? Both my children were potty trained for #1 by 2, around 2 and 1/2 for #2 and I don’t consider that advanced or special in any way.
both of my boys were fully out of diapers just after two years old.
the oldest had no problems (started about 1 and a half) with night time and no diaper, but the day was harder.
lol.
My oldest son started daycare when he had just turned 2 years old, 2 weeks earlier. He noticed another boy at his daycare in “big boy pants”, came home and told me he didn’t want to wear diapers any more. The daycare and I put them on him the next day; he completely freaked out, so we finally tried him without. He never had another accident; day or night. (He also has a genius IQ, not sure if that had anything to do with it. He’s 25 years old now.)
My youngest son was trained during the day when he was about 2 1/2, but wasn’t night trained until he was 3.
Every child is different, is my point here.
🙂
I told my son he could ski when he could manage “big boy underwear”. Baddaboom. Trained at 2. HOpe he’s a genius at age 25 🙂
my two oldest were potty trained by 2.5years old. They still had a few accidents and my son didn’t really want to poop in the potty but it was done by 2. My baby girl was potty trained before she was 2 years old started early with her because she could talk very well and was always telling me she was went and had pooped. I figured if she could say all that she could say mommy I need to potty, turns out I was right. What we can to potty training she looked at me and said I wanted you to big party mama, and that was that. Also we never did pull ups I think she was insulted by them wanted a big girl underwear immedi5 tely! Every child is different.
Insane? My mother had all of us kids potty-trained well before that age. Of course I had to stand on a step to do #1.
My mom says I was trained at 15 months.
Mine has been trained since she was 2 and night trained completely at 2.5. Night training is easy don’t let them drink after 6pm. No pulls ups, if the pee the bed change the sheets. It was really very easy.
I have a 7 year old niece who wears pulls ups and pees the bed every night, but that is a whole other story.
Kids get potty trained whenever the parents or caregivers have the time and energy combined with being tired of buying diapers to do it. I remember when I was pregnant getting magazines about moms who never used diapers at all and were training their infants with like hand and eye signals.. LOL! (☉_☉)
In countries where disposable diapers are harder to come by kids tend to learn earlier. So North’s achievement isn’t su h a big deal.
So true Winterberry, I was born in the 50’s and my mother had me and my sister potty train at 1yr old. When your washing out cloth diapers every day you tend to train your child earlier. Now that disposable diapers exist families are slower at training the child. My son was out of diapers at 20 months and I used cloth diapers. You all have it easy and yet the child stays in diapers longer.
Co-sign.
How is one “half way” potty trained? Is that like my cat when he’s feeling lazy and only puts one hind leg in the box? Then looks at me like, “what?”
actually my son is half way potty trained..he pees in the toilet but refuses to poo in the toilet. he still hides in his corner…lol
“hides in his corner”
Oh man! This made me laugh. I had forgotten about this stage. The squatting in a corner, face gradually turning purple.
My kids did that too – hide in the corner
My daughter did that too. I had completely forgotten that until now.
Maybe she doesn’t use diapers during the day, but still wears them when she’s sleeping?
Only ask this question if you really want to know the answer, because parents of small children have no problems when it comes to discussing their children’s bathroom habits! It’s because we’re desensitized.
OMG, that made me laugh so hard! Our cat does the same thing, so I can totally relate. Thanks for that. 😀
It’s so annoying! I’m like, buddy, you gotta do better than ONE LEG.
At 18 mo, little wif could wear undies all day, but scared of the toilet so she would ask for a diaper, we’d change her, she would go, and back in undies after. Just recently got over peeing on the potty, and at 26 months now it’s been 3 weeks no diapers. She was used to it so no accidents. On one week of dry nights too in undies which I hear is insane, but still won’t #2, which I guess is normal. So I could understand the “halfway” thing.
I was schooled that I got exasperated with my mom. Don’t know how old I was at the time, but in no uncertain terms I told her I wanted to poo. She thought that I had done it already and I rolled my eyes at her and told her I wanted to poo “in the chair”
Could be she is good with #1 but not #2, or vice versa. If I remember right one of my friend’s kids caught on to one before the other.
I love the bit about your cat! I can totally see it the way you described it!
LOL. your cat is cute!
My son would pee in his pull-up long after he did a poo solely in the potty. He’d worked out that the latter caused nappy rash, and made him sore. So I guess he was half way there?
And plenty of 19 month olds speak very basic sentences. Others know a handful of words. None of it means anything, five years later.
That’s an odd humble brag. “1/2 way potty trained”? There is no room for negotiation here- this ends with the business in the toilet.
@ good names…. As an extremely frustrated mom, I can stand by the,” half way” as the hope and pride I have with my son. As mentioned above, he’s 3 and a half. I have seriously ran the marathon of every book, website, and well meaning other mother’s advise. When I say half way, I mean that he, mostly, will go to the potty or request to go more often than simply letting it fly. I can’t explain why sometimes it’s exactly how it should be and other times, it’s like we stepped on a time machine and he’s 1. I’ll take that half in the half way potty trained as a small victory that we both need and soldier on😊.
Good point! In other words, Kim’s nanny occasionally puts North on the toilet and she pees, so in Kim’s eyes that means her daughter is “half potty trained.”
Yes, a lot of proud parents are just well-trained themselves… They know to get the kid to the toilet when the kid shows certain tell-tale signs, which actually is a step in the process. In Kim’s case, the nannies are well trained. How likely is it that Kimmie is dealing with the potty issues herself? More likely a nanny or Kanye’s aunt told her or her PR person about it and if pressed, she wouldn’t be able to give convincing details. Kim got bored with changing diapers soon after Nori was born, she quickly shifted all the actual care (and thus bonding) activities to others so she could get her beauty sleep and be available to horny Kanye any time he was in the mood.
Perhaps we should be more surprised that Kim can recognize the moon… Since Kim is such a liar, more likely Nori said that to her aunt or nanny and Kim is just switching the details around.
not so early, especially for a girl.
It would be “insane” for Kim to know that. She most likely had nothing to do with the training anyway
+++100000000
Agreed! My first thought was that the nanny was doing a heck of a job raising that little girl. 🙂
Agree, plus that other “halfway” is the hard part. I know lots of 18 month olds that will pee in a potty when they get put on it after naps. And we all know Giselle claimed her son was “trained” before he could walk. Anticipating a kid who has to pee =/ potty trained kid.
There’s no way in hell Kim is potty training North. NO WAY! Lol.
Usually around the three year mark is when you start the process. However it depends on the kid and circumstances. Some want to start earlier. We were told to wait with our eldest because I was pregnant with our second (mattress queen, i know.) and it would had been to much change in a short amount of time.
exactly she isn’t home enough to sit there. My son was 3 and slow and could care less until I asked what’s going to happen when I run out of nappies (diapers) oh I will just go on the pot grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I’d rather later than endless accidents.
I feel you. Since I worked as I teacher, I slated potty training of my oldest child over Christmas break so that I could be consistent in getting her on the potty when needed. She wanted nothing to do with it. Lo and behold the day after Christmas break she came home and told me she didn’t want diapers anymore and was totally potty trained – day and night. My youngest said she didn’t want diapers anymore on Christmas Eve Day. She did great all day. Come Christmas Day, she no longer wanted “big girl panties” and wanted her diapers back. No matter what I said, she showed my she wasn’t buying it!!! Two weeks later she decided to no longer have diapers. I’m not one to push potty training. But I had it really easy with my girls. But I also don’t believe she is home enough to do the potty training.
She would have to stop looking at her mirror and her phone camera long enough to recognize the “I need to go potty” signs.
Agreed, the nannies have to be doing it because it’s a 24 hour task once you decide to start. I don’t understand the half way thing either, maybe she means she still wears diapers at night but not during the day?
I don’t think Kim is a bad mother at all. Who cares who does the potty training? Is that supposed to be an issue? A child can absolutely be half potty trained. It’s hit and miss or they’ll do one in the toilet, one in the diaper. She’s probably getting the idea of it. Boys are harder to train, although I probably could have trained the younger one sooner than two years eight months. I basically just told him no more diapers, showed him the toilet and said that’s where he would be going from now on. That was it. He was trained.
I don’t think she’s a bad mom. I just don’t think she’s as hands as she tries to sell herself. I think a lot of people would agree with that.
I don’t think she’s a bad mom. I just don’t think she is a “mom” at all.
^^Yep, I suspect the same. She probably sees Nori an hour or two a day to keep her company then hands her off to the nanny when it’s convenient. Under the circumstances, the child might have a better deal by being taken care of by someone who knows about children and cares more about them than if her lipstick has worn off.
Agreed! Congrats to their INSANE nannies that helped Nori get half potty trained so quickly. It’s like totally amazing.
That is a really good point, that there is no way Kim is the person potty training her daughter. I’m not a parent yet, but when my nieces and nephew were potty trained, I know my sister logged in some serious time making sure they got to the potty in time and all that. How could Kimmode possibly be involved when she is always out? I know a lot of people defend her and say we don’t see every aspect of her life, but lets be serious… the woman clearly does not spend as much time with her child as the average mother does and I do not consider the majority of what she does to even be work.
I’m not a mother and all of my students are 5 and up so I won’t comment on when a child should be potty trained. I’m not completely sure. Just wanted to say that I LOVE Nori’s smize on that last picture! Also, I would have loved to see Kanye’s face when he realized she had flushed his phone down the 🚽! Laughs for days 😂😂😂
That’s assuming Nori actually did flush Kanye’s phone. Remember that Kim makes up stories out of whole cloth. Although many kids are indeed fascinated by the flush and like to experiment, it’s hard to believe that Kanye would 1) be around enough for it to happen with no caregiver in sight and 2) let loose of his phone ever in a house inhabited by Kim’s Demon Mother, who would love to get ahold of his phone and get some juicy storylines for her evil show, plus Kim, who has already proven on the show that she has no qualms about hacking into other people’s accounts.
I hate the way that the Kardashians overuse adjectives like “insane” and “amazing.” I know that they probably have a limited vocabulary and I know that a lot of people overuse and misuse these adjectives, but still – it is a pet peeve of mine.
ETA, love the story about North and Kanye’s phone though. Cute!
+1. And don’t forget “literally.” KUWTK was on at a friend’s house and I couldn’t handle their overuse (and misuse) of the word “literally.” They say it (literally) every other word. I wanted to throw something at the TV.
Sure, sure it was “on at a friend’s house”. Only teasing 🙂
Ha! Me too! Maybe its her way of telling him to get off the phone and pay attention to her.
I don’t know … in our (entire) family, babies are pretty much potty trained before or by their 2nd birthday. Perhaps because all the cousins my age and older were born in Birmingham, Alabama and babies came close together and people had to grow up faster. It was sort of an ‘If you’re old enough to say ‘pot-pot’ you’re old enough to use it’ thing. My younger cousins potty train their kids the way their mothers and ‘they’ were potty trained. I honestly think 2 1/2 to 3-years of age is a bit long in the tooth to not be using the pot. But to each his/her own and whatever works for you and yours.
Yeah, that’s about the same age that my mom potty trained us–about 2. She bought one of the little kid pots, and she would just have us sit on it, and tell us where we were supposed to go.
Lol, I remember my little brother was about 2-3 years old, and he would pee in the pot, but he would always poop his pants (on purpose). So my mom started putting him in footie pajamas. Because whenever he’d poop his pants, he would just shake it out of his pant leg, and leave it on the floor. He only had to do it once or twice–he’d poop, try and shake it out, and it’d be in the bottom of his footie pajamas, so he’d drag his foot so he didn’t step on it–and then he stopped pooping his pants.
My little sister used to pee in her little pot, and then poop on the floor. Like she would literally sit on the pot and pee, and then she would get up, squat next to the pot and poop.
Same here. My girls were both trained by 2, although the older one had a period where she would only pee in the potty, then come waddling into the room with her training pants full and slapping the backs of her knees. My son was hell to train, though, he was nearly 3 1/2 before he finished. He used to hide behind the door to do his squatting, then bring me a fresh diaper and ask me to change him. Grrrrr!! I did manage to train him to always put the seat down, though, which seems golden from my viewpoint.
Eh, personally as someone who has worked with kids and potty trained tons of them, 18 months is a good age to get started because often times they’re interested in it at that age, think the potty is cool, etc. But obviously you don’t really expect them to catch on then, just start to get acquainted with it in the general sense. 2-3 is the time where they should sharpen their skills and actually be dry all night, etc. Technically it’s not a “problem” in the medical sense unless they aren’t fully trained by age 6. But for the sake of the kid, make sure they’re trained before you send them off to preschool or kindergarten, because it will make everybody’s life a little easier. I currently work with a 6 year old special needs boy who is not remotely potty trained and it’s hard because by this age he’s lost interest in wanting to and also it’s a lot of work for mom and dad who have gotten used to the ease of diaper changing. I remind them that he’s only going to get bigger and changing a diaper on a 15 year old won’t be so convenient.
who’s in the phone booth? ’cause that sure as heck ain’t KK.
Donatella Versace?
The Joker?
Hey now, some of us actually like The Joker. Don’t insult him
Surely Not Halfway potty trained by her or anyone in her family
I Love she doesn’t know what her kid can/can’t do… of course she doesn’t
i don’t believe anything this woman says!
she might be lying for the sake of making her daughter look smarter.
That’s exactly what’s going on.
That cover shot, she looks like Mindy Kaling!
Thought she looked like Victoria Beckham.
I thought VB too.
No way do I see VB. It looks to me like she has a ton of dark bronzer on her face and is trying very hard to look anything other than white. Except her hair of course, she seems to love her white girl hair but that’s about it.
Dawn
exactly. barely looks like her. she likes to keep her hair really dark too. she’ll only do light for a minute to get attention, then she dyes it back. lately i feel like she’s trying to look less white. i wish she would have kept her armenian features, she looked exotic and different. now she looks plastic as f*ck
Yeah, I thought she looked like Mindy Kaping’s pissed off evil twin.
I thought of Marilyn Manson.
I thought it was Mindy too.
My oldest started potty training on her second birthday. Pee took 3 days, poo about a month. My second started on her own a month before she turned two, and sometimes gets lazy, sometimes is perfect. She goes poo in the potty like a champ, it is the pee she gets lazy about! Nori is a little early for sure, but it isn’t unheard of or crazy early.
In some African villages and I have witnessed this myself, where disposable nappies are unheard of, babies as young as six months get potty trained, there mothers just know when they need to go and perch them on their feet until they have gone.
Exectly. It is only latest western standart of sort. Where I live untill recently you started training your kids around 1yo. Half way, yeah )) my son was half way at 11 mo.
my mother told me that I started using potty when I was 12 months, I don’t have children so I assumed that it’s normal age. Now, reading your comments, I feel like prodigy child 😉
Me too! All the siblings were completely potty trained before 2 yrs. My mom likes telling me how at 17 months I went back to diapers for a couple of weeks: my little sister was born and she got to use them, why couldn’t I? Decided it wasn’t fun to sit in a dirty diaper and went back to the toilet.
Then again, she likes saying how I was walking (holding onto the odd thing) before crawling… all before 12 months.
My daughter is 43 years old, born in the age of cloth diapers. Disposable just came out around that time and were very expensive so only used when traveling. Thing is, disposables are made to feel dry and comfy even when they are soaked. When cloth gets wet it *feels* wet and like adults, kids don’t like to stay in uncomfortably wet pants not to mention the diaper rashes it causes. My daughter was trained before she was a year old, except at night she wore a diaper until she was around 18 months. This was the natural normal progression back then, all kids were out of diapers by then, some even earlier.
As a point of interest, I recently heard that leaving potty training so late makes it harder for kids to learn to control their bladders, that its actually harder than if it was done when they were younger. I’m always kind of in awe that parents are willing to have their kids running around in disposable diapers for so long, that they spend SO much money on something used once then dumped in the landfill. If parents were washing their own cloth diapers, trust me it wouldn’t go on for 3 years.
Totally agree w/ you Tessie.
I said basically the same thing farther down the line……My oldest is 47 and I gave birth to her sister one day after her first birthday….and and had two more the next three years …so they got out of those soppy wet diapers fast because they were didn’t like wearing them….My sister in law gave me one of those little wooden potty chair for her birthday and that chair went into action immediately I got home from the hospital with her sister ….LOL…
Just wanted to say the same thing! I always thought potty training was something parents did before the age of 12 months, because that was my case. However, I was born in the ’80, in a communist country, so my parents used cloth diapers which they had to basically boil and hand-wash daily because they only had a rudimentary washing machine and no actual running water (we lived in a village). So, yeah, I can only imagine they were sick and tired of washing dirty diapers all the time and that’s why they decided to “train” me early on. Those were the days! 😀
I think kids can learn this really early, without it being something exceptional or “insane”. It’s mostly a matter of circumstance.
@tessy&grace – maybe it’s the thing, I was also born in the late ’80 in a communist country, and although it wasn’t the case of money it was the case of availability of disposable diapers, so my mother had to wash the cloth ones. second thing is that as a child I hadn’t problems with accomodation to new things, and I was learning really quick. Unfortunately, I’m not that brillant anymore.
Lol i missed that, how do you not know how your child learned something, granted I am sure Nori is surrounded by lots of relatives all at once.
Nah, 19 months is not too early. The earlier babies start potty training, the faster they learn. Better for the babies too, to stop wearing diapers. And no, Kim’s definitely NOT the one doing the potty training.
Of course North is ahead of the curve. She’s Special, just like Mommy and Daddy are Special. I’ll bet Kim had to bite her lip from claiming she came forth from the womb fully potty trained and clutching a PhD…
I hate it when parents project thier own narcissism on thier kids…
Just let North be a kid and stop reading “brilliance” into every burp and fart. She does not exist for the purpose of legitimizing her ego-driven parents’ inflated ideas about themselves…
Most parents think their kid is a special snowflake.
Most parents THINK their kid is special and amazing, but I KNOW mine is.
;D bahaha
My daughter was potty trained at 2- she copied her big sister so knew what to do. North probably threw his phone down th loo as I imagine he’s glued to it constantly and it was th only way to get his attention…yea , nanny will show her th moon wen shes putting her to bed while mom n dad r out conquering/polluting th world.
Kids are either potty trained or not, there is no halfway. And 19 months for girls is pretty common. All the girls in my son’s toddler class
Were trained before the boys, some as early as 15 months. But whatever….
I’m starting to potty train my little one now and she’s only 6 weeks. The western way says to start much later, but infants are able to communicate their need much earlier.
It’s early-ish, but not outrageous for a girl. It takes a combination of all of the physical, social, and psychological gears to be in place — and if a kid’s ready they’re ready, and if they’re not, it’s a recipe for frustration for all parties.
And there are lots of outliers in either direction. My friend’s son potty-trained himself at 13 months — it wasn’t even on her radar to start him at that point. Other kids are 4 and still working on it and they don’t have a “problem”. Outliers are normal in both directions.
And what works for different kids really varies. I didn’t do much active potty-training — other than to play it up as a positive activity. My kid potty-trained himself for pooping at 2 1/2 and for peeing a little after he turned 3. One day his diapers were just dry, even at night. Other kids respond better to a really structured approach. Or, in my niece’s case, the puppy bribe was remarkably effective….
My friends son had a real problem with bed-wetting at 6-12. It was upsetting to the boy and also limiting. He was too ashamed to go on sleepovers, avoided all camping activities, etc. What we learned was, there is approximately 7 children in every classroom from ages 6-15 who wet the bed nightly. To learn he wasn’t alone; you should have seen the look on his face.
Yes, it’s not lost on me that my son was unusual for staying dry at night.
It wasn’t a commentary in children who don’t — I was actually quite surprised that my kid didn’t need pull-ups at night — I had assumed that he would for quite a while. I don’t attribute it to any special prowess on his part or amazing parenting skills on mine — it’s just happenstance.
I’m glad that your friend’s son learned that he’s not alone. My brother was a very heavy sleeper and had pretty regular bedwetting until he was @10. When one of my nephews had long-term bedwetting too, it was comforting for him to know that his uncle eventually did outgrow it too.
Sean was potty trained by 2 1/2. Siobhan was trained by 2. They were interested in the potty, so we jumped on it.
Your kids names are AWESOME. If I ever have a kid (or adopt a baby), then I’m going to name her Roxana. I freaking love that name. It was the name of Alexander the Great’s first wife, and I haven’t told any of my family members the name (except my mom), because I don’t want anyone to steal it, lol.
Has Kim ever been around to see this? Good job nannies
Good job nannies!! My goodness, they are on the ball raising her!
And the moon thing? Wow. At least thats one thing Nori can count on.
Agree. At least she can see the moon most nights when she goes to sleep. I wouldn’t be surprised if she doesn’t see her parents most nights.
When you do not have the obligation to get up in the morning to drop off your child to daycare so you can get to work – you can spend a good part of your day/week/year with your child full time – most children would be toilet trained much quicker, IMO…I have two boys, work full time, mother/spouse/cleaning lady/cook the rest of the time and on average, my boys were toilet trained around 3!
I have a hard time believing anything that comes out of her mouth.
That’s a little early but not uncommon for girls. Besides it’s not like they did it, it was the nanny.
My daughter was fully potty trained at 19 mos. In France they potty train earlier and I was in France at the time. My son was potty trained at 2 years. Someone here mentioned 38 mos? That’s too late in my opinion. I can’t imagine changing the diaper of a pre-school aged child. It’s not difficult…why wait so long?
Kim’s outfit is ridiculous. It is BEGGING for North to shove her fingers/fist into one of the holes. Good lord, my kids always found a way to shove a hand down my blouse/up my skirt in public.
Little kids are great at embarrassing their parents when they want attention, don’t they?
My mother says that when we were babies, in the 80s, there weren’t disposable diapers in my country, so babies were being potty trained at the age of 1, and they (babies) didn’t really mind since those washable rough diapers weren’t much fun to be in, especially when wet.
She’s been working with babies her whole life and says that nowadays babies are rarely being potty trained before the age of 2, usually the parents wait for the first summer after their second birthday because it’s easier to change them when wet. And babies are in no hurry to be potty trained because today diapers are so comfortable and they really do keep everything in, kids don’t even feel that they are wet.
All in all, I conclude that it’s really not too early for Nori, it’s just a bit uncommon these days in society she lives in.
Kummy should give the Nanny a raise, because she’s the one changing diapers and potty training.
Oh good grief. ALl kids are different, develop different skills at different times, some skills earlier than others, some skills later than others. I was freaking out because my kid didn’t really walk until he was 15 months old. Turns out I just wasn’t coaxing him to do it…once I did, he was like “OK”…..and walked across the room without a single tumble. In fact he NEVER fell down walking! Well heck, he was 15 months old before he did, so yeah–he should be stable. On the other hand: he could identify every single letter in the alphabet before he was 2. Ask him to point to the (insert letter here), and he’d get every single one.
My point? WHATEVER. One early or later skill in toddlers is not indicative of anything in life. Except life itself.
Love your walking story. I have a similar one. My youngest didn’t walk until 13 months (my other two walked at 11 months). She would try and follow me around the house and crawling wasn’t fast enough so she would cry so I would pick her up (I usually didn’t). One day I looked at her and told her if she wanted to keep up with me she needed to get up and walk and she did.
Utterly true. My 3 year-old is still dealing with potty training, but she’s developmentally advanced in other areas. Every kid is different. Period. And that’s perfectly okay (especially if your pediatrician isn’t concerned).
There’s nothing “insane” about developmental milestones at 19 months. Hyperbolic Kardashian is hyperbolic.
Amen.
+1. My daughter was ridiculously smart. (Still is). She knew all letters, shapes, colors, full sentences, some math, on and on well before 2. And guess what. I did zero to potty train her, as our ped said that it’s a milestone like any other and letvher lead. She wasn’t trained u til just before 3. Oh well. She also has neve had an accident day or night. So it has nothing to do with intelligence. She’s in honors every class available. She simply hit some milestones early and some on time, etc. That’s the way it goes.
That doesn’t sound ridiculous, especially if you interpret “halfway” as “has gotten started on it and made some progress.” My niece is just her age, and while she hasn’t started on it, some of the kids in her daycare room have.
Either they are potty trained or not. What’s halfway? Wait until she is fully trained and then brag about it woman.
Yes, yes, your child is a special snowflake beyond compare.
I can’t believe KIM knows what the moon is.
Only because her daughter taught her.
I can’t believe Nori knows who Kim is.
Kanye dresses that child like a mini male rap star. Am In the only one who hates those Timberland/ biker boots that North is always wearing?
I came only to see if the parents had evolved to the point of allowing their daughter to wear something other than this outfit.
Disappointed.
Sounds like North has a great nanny(ies) and has been read Good Night Moon a lot. I hate it when Mommies get into a competition about when their babies/toddlers do stuff. It’s not a race, y’all.
There are some things in my time as a parent that I wouldn’t have minded being rich enough to hire a nanny to teach my kids: potty training, riding a bike and driving a car. More than a few swear words were uttered during all of those milestones.
She seems to love to drop these little parenting nuggets when she’s been away from the kid. With her travel schedule the last few months, I doubt she knows much about the child.
And of course, why would anyone actually think she is telling the truth about anything? I take everything she says as some PR bull. It never occurs to me to actually consider the statement as anywhere near some sort of truth.
Call me a cynic but I don’t believe a word that comes out of Kim Kardashian’s mouth about anything ever. She is a known liar and that is all I will say. I still think she needs to be slapped for allowing that girl to be named North with no middle name to fall back on.
Do I get a cookie because my daughter is potty trained at 16 months? Whats the point of bragging? It’s literally just poop. (I’m not trying to brag – my daughter got crazy infections from diapers and just ripped them off -, just making the same note as many others. Why do we need to discuss our children’s bathroom habits?)
My pediatrician had a great mantra: By the time they’re 18, most of them will be walking and potty-trained.
I also hate the competitive parenting on any issue, let alone something so petty.
Thank you, Josephine! Exactly!!!
And yes, you get a cookie. We should all get cookies!
it happens typically at 2.5 years, but every kid is different. I know kids going on 4 that are in diapers.
On a different note, Kim’s face is scary on the picture that headlines this post.
she looks like Michael Jackson
One…who the hell is that is the phone booth. Two…halfway my a$@ when your child is really ready it only takes a few days. If they are not ready they are halfway trained until the day they are ready and then it only takes a few days…..people bragging as if something like potty training shows intelligence. Poor North she has no idea what she is in for. I had prayed Kim would have a boy so he didn’t have to become a kartrashian…..
Hmm as if I weren’t feeling sick enough with a stomach bug already, then you recycle that pix with the Pepto-dismal pink holey tracksuit getup. . .*shuffles off to vomit*
Before her death, my beloved maternal grandmother loved telling the story of how I was finally trained. I was day trained by 15 months, but at 2 1/2, I was still in diapers (cloth) at night. My mother, G-mother, and older brother went to visit my great grandmother for a long weekend. Come bedtime, it was discovered that they forgot to pack my nighttime diapers. They put several towels on the bed and hoped for the best. In the morning, when the bed and I were both discovered dry, my grandmother said, “Sweetheart, you didn’t pee last night!” I replied, “I couldn’t; you forgot my diapers.” I never wore them again.
All signs point to BS! She is steady lying. Your 19 mo old says ‘moon’?? BFD my 19 mo old could say “Moon” then we’d say “en Espanol” and she’d say “Luna!”. It’s not that big a deal.
omg that pic of her in the black dress looks like her hair grew long enough and wrapped all around her body! that’s pretty gross
There’s no way Kim is potty training her kid. She uses that kid as a dress up doll and an accessory. Also, I don’t believe that she really wants to get pregnant again. If she has another baby, it will be through a surrogate.
When my daughter was 18 months old, her upstairs nursery faced a flagpole. I found her with her hand across her chest saying the Pledge of Allegiance, which she had learned from some early-morning kiddie shows. But she had lots of attention from her dad and me and her grandparents (no nannies), so not really that astonishing. I’ll leave the rest unsaid.
The thing that really gets me is she didn’t know how her daughter knew the concept of the moon. She just accidentally proved she isn’t around her much, not like we didn’t already know that.
And “halfway potty trained at 19 months” in her world is the nanny telling her she peed on the potty twice when the nanny held her on it. I’m rolling my eyes hard at her. Who cares? My daughter started potty training at 18 months (she was interested), but then regressed at different times, and was fully trained at 36 months, like pretty much EVERY OTHER KID.
Again, who cares?
Ladies back in the days of cloth diapers …My days as a young mother you trained that baby as soon as possible especially when you were like me and had 4 kids in less than 6 yrs……Took me to baby three to figure out what was causing it …(lol) . Anyway my girls were fully trained to the potty chair by 15 and 16 mos old and my son took a little longer he was 2 before he was trained… It stayed in the bathroom till they were old enough to climb up on those little steps and sit on a flip down seat on the commode…I keep that blessed potty chair and even trained my oldest grandsons with it….
It was a little wooden chair with a pot in the bottom that you slide out when they were done….Had a dinner party one night and we were in the middle of eating when my son then around 2 1/2 at the time come tottering slowly into the dining room his PJ’s and underpants around his ankles careful holding out a rather full bowl from that potty chair… ” Needs to frush it away Mommie” . I like to have died ! I grab up the bowl in one hand , my naked child in the other and ran . Why my guests and husband beat they table with their fist and hands from laughing so hard….
Gee ! thanks for that memory Ladies….
What’s wrong with the corners of her mouth?
hmm I never noticed that before. maybe b/c of lip injections? maybe they’re trying to give a bow look to her lips?
No nanny here and our 4 children were all potty trained before they were 2. Had twins, then 14 months later, another son, and 16 months after that, our second daughter. For our family, this was a matter of economics, especially with the first 3. My husband was in law school for first 3 children and we didn’t have a lot of extra money. I stopped working full-time as an architect and would freelance the occasional interior design job. I will admit, bribery worked during training, my kids got stickers on poster boards each time they would go. Bought a lot of poster boards and stickers…but so much less expensive than diapers.
Happily our 4th is now in school, we are not having anymore, my husband’s practice is going well and I am working part-time again for an architectural firm.
My kids were potty trained at 13 months. She isn’t doing anything that the average mother can achieve. Can we stop making her revelant?
Amen to this comment.
I was 17 months, I’m a genius I guess…
I was a really lazy mom & didn’t actively potty-train. I left a potty chair out for my daughter so it would be familiar. She started going on it on her own right before her second birthday. There was no halfway with her and she only ever had one accident. I SO lucked out – big time.
She just can’t wait to get that baby in a thong. My son (now 17) walked at eight months making potty training surprisingly easy. He was trained at one. I grew up in the sixties and this was not
uncommon.
My parents always tell my potty training stories at parties, and I am certain half of Germany knows it! 🙁 I was 6 months old and I guess they are still very proud of me…
Eh, I was potty trained a couple months before I turned two. My mom doesn’t brag about it because, according to her, it was neither me nor my biological father who trained me. One day I just got it in my mind that I wanted to use the big person potty, so I did. I’m not proud per se of my early training, but I am proud that I took the initiative (I’m also proud that my first word was ‘no’. I knew what I wanted, by gum!).
How would Kim know she is never home or with the child. Is this something the nannies tell her over text message to make her feel like her kid is special? I know tons of people who had their kids potty trained at 18 months. My sister did and then my mother went on and bragged how super genius she was for years. Then we found out my sister just happened to peak at 18 months old, after that we all saw that she is an idiot.
I start potty training at a year. I’m not hardcore about it, but I sit my kids on their potty every time I go. My 2 year old boy is mostly day trained (he refuses to poop in the potty, so he wears diapers during his normal poop time).
I know someone who refused to even start training her 3 year old boy because her ped said most boys aren’t fully trained til 4. I think she just started this year (he’ll be 4 in Sept.)
I was 18 months old in the words of my mother. I think 18-19 months is ideal..