I have had several people tell me that me 3 yr old (4 in Dec) may not be ready for potty training being if I take him to the bathroom to go potty, he'll go. But if i don't take him, he won't tell us at all that he has to go. Well I have also had people tell me that if he's yelling at me in the morning to change his butt, which he does every morning, then he is more than ready to potty train. But I am getting no where with potty training, how am I suppose to access that. I believe, so go a lot of other people, that he is too smart for his age to begin with that he should understand about potty training and what's right from wrong. And aside from if he's ready I had started to throw cereal into the potty and let him go and he was doing it, not now bc he's going without it, but my mother in law wants to be a critic bout everything. She wants to ask what if he starts peeing in the cereal box, the bowl, etc. well I walk by his room last week and happen to hear him say pee on book (it was a baby leap frog) well I stood there to see if he did. Well he did, the only reaction I had was to spank him. Now my mother in law is telling me that it's my fault from getting him to pee on cereal. I don't think so, what do you think?