Potty Training Tips. (Toilet Training/Potties in General)

Member Name: cindy1

Product:	Toilet Training/Potties in General
Date:	01/11/00 (155 review reads)
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Advantages: Makes the process easier

Disadvantages: None

Learning to use a potty is a big step forward for your child, and what's more it's an important part of growing up. It allows your child to become more independent.
To be successful your child will need a lot of encouragement from you. You will need to stay patient throughout the training. When eventually you reach the end both you and the child will feel a great sense of achievement.

Here are a few tips.

1 Wait until the child is ready, if you start too early it can make the process a lot more difficult.

2 Don't make a big deal out of it. Carry out your life as normal, but at the same time train the child.

3 Decide whether to use the toilet or the potty. If you decide to use the toilet, make sure there is a step near by so that your child can reach the toilet. If you decide to use a potty keep it beside the toilet and explain to the child what it is. Remember whichever method you use stick to it, and don't change half way through.

4 Start using practise pants I recommend huggies pull-ups. Pull-ups are just like proper underwear, which will make the child, feel grown up. They will help the transition from nappy to underwear. The pants look real, with fun patterns on them. However, the minute your child has an accident the patterns will fade. The idea is that is gives the child an incentive to stay dry.
Pull-ups give the child a chance to take part in the training process, it will increase the child's awareness and once they start to learn it will give them an enormous sense of pride.
The pants also absorb any little accidents, so the child's clothing is protected, the pull-ups are so good that you don't even have to change the child's outer clothes.
To get the most out of the pants you need to treat them exactly like underwear. Induce the pants to the child saying that these are their new special pants. Then continue the training as if the child were wearing ordinary underwe
ar.

5 Always keep to the same routine, make sure that anyone who looks after your child knows your routine.

6 Don't dress your child in complicated clothes. Dress your child in clothes that are easy to fasten and unfasten.

7 Be patient, it's not going to happen overnight. You need to keep encouraging the child and praising them when they do it right. Eventually they will be going to the toilet by themselves.

8 Don't make potty training a difficult process, make it fun.
Stick to these simple tips and I guarantee you will have success.

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