Potty Training is one milestone that you are in all
probability keenly awaiting. Although some toddlers modify during a few days,
bear in mind that it could take your toddler many months to urge into the potty
habit. And there'll be setbacks on the method.
Assess Your Child's Readiness For Potty Training
There's no right age to start out potty training, as each kid
is totally different. Parents try to give potty training once their kid is
between eighteen months and 3 years. Most kids are between 2 years and two-and-a-half
years when they start receiving potty training.
Don’t force your kid for potty training. Look forward to the
signs that your kid is prepared to start out training, and do not begin before
then.
Talk to your child as to what you are going to do, and
choose what you are going to call wee and poo.
Make Potty-Training Preparations
Go on a special trip along with your kid to shop for some
new pants and a potty. A potty is maybe best to start out with, instead of a
rest room. It’s simple to use, and can be moved easily in the house. However,
you'll need to shop for a coaching seat to connect it to your rest room.
If your kid uses a rest room seat, you would require a
footstep therefore your kid will stabilise himself together with his feet and
push once he is having a poo. It will facilitate him to get off and on the loo
without any help. A fun picture book or a DVD
on how to use a potty will make him more interested on how to do things in the
right way.
Try using training pants instead of underwear as training
pants have absorbing pads inside it which would take care of small accidents.
Training pants are easy to pull up and down with disposable
and absorbent benefits. But for some parents don’t find these convenient as
they don’t feel any difference from a nappy. If your toddler is wearing real
underwear then will give encouragement to use his potty. Let him choose few
pants which have birds, cartoons printed on them.
Consistent Approach To Potty Training
Take things slowly to start with. Try to make your toddler
sit on the potty once in a day after his breakfast or before his bath or
whenever he wants to have a poo.
Make him sit on the potty soon after he had a wet nappy. This
will ultimately get fixed in his mind as to where to go for a wee or poo and he
will slowly accept it as a daily routine.
Never force him to sit of he doesn’t want to sit. If you
realise that he is getting scared then and is not interested then put the nappy
back on him. Put the potty aside and try after a few weeks. The main aim is to
make him get use to potty
If he shows an interest, begin explaining that this can is
what Mummy and pa do each day.
If he gets what you are trying to explain and manages to poo
that’s nice. However do not push him to perform. Wait till he is prepared and
shows interest in using the toilet on his own. Never force your child if he is
not ready as he will lose interest and you will ultimately get frustrated
It’s easier to potty train in summer as there are few
clothes to take off and drying of washing is faster as compared to winters. As
potty is portable you can use it in a convenient place which can either be
garden or a room.
Do inform all others in your family when you start potty
training as they all have to use the same method which you are doing in your
child case.
Demonstrate How It's Done
Children copy what we do. If he sees you using the toilet he
would understand the purpose of it. If you have got a son, explain him to wee
sitting right down to begin with.
You can talk to your child about how you can tell that’s
it’s time for you to go to rest room. Explain him by doing it yourself. Start
with showing him as to how to wipe with a toilet paper then pulling up your
underwear and flushing toilet and then finally washing your hands
Your toddler will be requiring your help for some time
mostly on wiping after poo. But after explaining him step by step he will
slowly understand the whole process.
Your toddler will learn more quickly if he has older
siblings who potty trained. The skills he is learning will be easily
demonstrated by his siblings.
In order to help him in making connection between sitting
and pooing, you should make him sit down on his potty and empty the nappy
beneath him into the bowl if he poos in his nappy again.
When you have emptied his potty into the big toilet, ask him
to flush if he feels interested but don’t force him or he might get scared.
Motivate him to dress himself and wash his hands.
Persevere With The Potty, If He Is Prepared
Motivate him to use his potty whenever he feels the urge to
go. This can be done by giving him plenty of drink and by encouraging him to
use his potty after every few hours. Do make sure that he knows how to explain
to you that he needs go, and that you will follow him wherever he goes.
There will always be a need to tell him to go to the loo
first though there are chances when you will ask him to do a wee the reply will
comes as a big NO. To give proper direction from your side you can say “Do a
wee and then go outside and play. “
It’s alright if he goes around without a nappy or clothes
for sometimes if the potty is kept nearby. Your job is to remind him
occasionally that the potty is there and he can use it whenever he feels an
urge to go.
Some toddlers have a habit of not sitting long enough on the
potty and let anything come out. Encourage him to sit by talking to him or you
might read a story.
Praise your toddler when he uses the potty successfully. Even
if he having accidents which are continuous, he’ll gradually realise that using
a potty is an achievement.
Cope Calmly With Potty-Training Accidents
Your child before becoming completely trained will have
several accidents during the day time and the night. But don’t feel angry or
frustrated or try punishing him. To completely understand the process your
child will take time .If he has an accident clean it up without any frustration
and explain him again that next time he should his potty. Make him sit on the
potty afterwards to make him understand as to where the poo or the wee should
have gone.
Your child will commit accidents during potty training. But
if the accidents frequency is more as compared to progress then then start
using nappies again and stop potty training as your child is not ready for
potty training. That doesn’t mean you have failed but it only means that your
child needs some more time to understand things.
Night-time Potty Training
Though your child may remain clean and dry all day, but it
may take months or even years to master being dry at night. It’s still not the
time to through his nappies as your child’s body is not that developed as to
make him awake during night just to go to the loo.
Most of the parents start to night train when their child is
between three to four years and he has woken up with a dry nappy a few
mornings. They can try it, but do make sure to use a pad or an absorbent sheet
over the bed sheet to avoid any night accident.
Don’t let him drink too much before bedtime as this will cut
down on wet nights. Do provide him six to seven cups of drinks during the day
or whenever he asks for it. Explain him that if wakes up during night he should
call to you to help him to get to the potty.
Try leaving a nightlight on in his room and leaving potty near his bed so that he can use it whenever he wants.
When your child is really ready to learn the new skill he
will surely learn it and it would be then less painful for you.
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