Some help with potty training your children.-00-5199

Some say that potty training can be initiated as early as 6 months. I do not believe because how can you potty train your child if she doesn’t even starts to walk. Ideally, the right time to toilet train your child is when she starts walking on her own and understands “wet” and “dry”.

You might say it’s too late but I say it is not. I trained my daughter when she was two years old and 3 months, for barely a week and the result was pleasing! She already informs us whenever she wants to pee and “poo”.

I believe potty training would come easy if your child can already distinguish wet from dry. Otherwise, she will not understand the reason behind why does she have to pee in the bedpan and not in her nappies/undies. It will also help if you explain to her what happens if she urinates in her panty. You may tell her that she’s going to get wet and that she may slip if she steps on her urine.

To support potty training, I suggest that parents do the “peeing” together with their kids. Invite them to pee with you. In this manner, your kids will find it easy on how to do it properly because they will imitate you. Along with this, you may also start guiding your child how to wash or wipe off her bottom after the pee (for girls) and after the poo (for both).

Incidentally, children cannot control their urine bladder during night time and so we settle with them peeing in the bed. This is most inconvenient and messy waking up in the morning soaking wet and you have to take care of the wet beddings. This can be regulated by encouraging your child to visit the bathroom before sleeping. You can also limit the intake of liquid at night. If you don’t have a built-in comfort room in your bedroom, you may bring her potty chair inside your room. It would be very inconvenient if you will still travel the child from your room to the lavatory. What I do with my daughter is I let her pee before bedtime and I wake her up at least 2 intervals to let her pee. I take a bedpan with me in our room. Upon waking up, I make sure that the first thing to do is let her urinate. Practicing this regularly will help your child develop the habit of peeing before and after sleep.

Potty training makes easier if you let your kids wear clothes that are easy to unzip. Do not let them wear pants that have buttons. Pull up pants are the best to use during potty training because it is child-friendly, easy to pull up and down.

Additionally, praising your child that she did it right makes potty training easy. Tell your child that what she did was great and that you were happy because she didn’t urinate/”pooed” in her pants. Praising your child for her “accomplishment” will encourage her to use the potty chair/toilet because she knows you are happy and that she was appreciated.

Potty training doesn’t have to be a chore. Just remember that your child has to be physiologically, physically and psychologically ready for toilet training and it can be fun! Not only it is fun, but you can also save a great deal of money and time. Diapers are scrubbed out from your grocery list and you don not have to dry up wet mattresses and wash stinking blankets.

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