This will depend with how active your child is. Like are they that sensitive to note when they want to help themselves. My son these days always start reacting when he wants to assist himself. If e was not on pampers he behaves differently. Like if he is in the bed. He will go down to urinate then climb up again. If we are outside, he does not assist himself in any how. Even if he is in pampers. But once we are in, he pees on himself. So I think he has started realizing when he is outside he should not pee on himself. Then when he is inside he has the freedom to. So when we are back from market maybe. The first thing I do is tale him to the potty. Then he urinates there. This is to encourage him so that next time he goes there by himself. He is just a year old with 2 months. I started this just recently.