Tips On Potty Training, Child Development, Potty Training
Toilet training usually occurs when a child is 18 to 24 months of age. However, it is not uncommon for a child to still be in diapers at 2 and a half to 3 years of age.
Toilet Training Tip 1: Your child is ready for toilet training when he or she can signal that the diaper is wet or soiled, or when your child is able to say that he or she would like to go to the potty.
Toilet Training Tip 2: Allow your child to be present when you go to the bathroom and make your child feel comfortable in the bathroom.
Toilet Training Tip 3: Allow your child to see urine and bowel movements in the toilet. Let your child play with flushing the toilet.
Toilet Training Tip 4: Before toilet training your child, place a potty chair in your child's normal living and play area so that your child will become familiar with the potty.
Toilet Training Tip 5: Let your child become comfortable with sitting on the potty without wearing pants and a diaper.
Toilet Training Tip 6: The next step is to show your child how the potty chair is used. Place stool from a dirty diaper into the potty chair. Allow your child to observe the transfer of the bowel movement from the potty chair into the toilet.
Toilet Training Tip 7: After your child has become comfortable with flushing the toilet and sitting on the potty chair, you may begin teaching your child to go to the bathroom.
Toilet Training Tip 8: Keep your child in loose, easily removable pants.
Toilet Training Tip 9: Most children urinate within an hour after having a large drink and have a bowel movement once a day, usually within an hour after eating.
Toilet Training Tip 10: Place your child on the potty chair whenever he or she signals the need to go to the bathroom.
Toilet Training Tip 11: Your child's facial expression may change when he or she feels the need to urinate or to have a bowel movement.
Toilet Training Tip 12: Your child may stop any activity he or she is engaged in when he or she feels the need to go to the bathroom.
Toilet Training Tip 13: Stay with your child when he or she is on the potty chair.
Toilet Training Tip 14: Praise your child when he or she goes to the bathroom in the potty chair, but do not express disappointment if your child does not urinate or have a bowel movement in the potty.
Toilet Training Tip 15: Do not punish your child when he or she has an accident.
