Potty Training Facts

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:47:31 +0000

Potty training, toilet training, toilet teaching or toilet learning are names frequently used to describe how kids learn to use the bathroom independently.

Children who are potty training or ready to potty train will:

Walk to the potty and undress

Consistently keep underwear clean and dry during the day and/or night

Recognise the need to go to the potty and let you know or goes by self

Use the potty-chair or toilet by himself or herself.Children will potty train at different rates and stages:

Detours in potty training come with the territory and should not be taken as a sign of failure.

Physical and mental developments play a large role in potty training success.

By using training pants in your training approach will help to make it a positive and rewarding experience.Facts to keep in mind:
Girls usually complete training at a younger age than boys and generally start earlier than boys. The time-spent training does not change in most cases. 80 percent of boys and girls are completely trained by age 3-1/2. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Potty training takes an average of eight months but will vary from child to child. One child can take one month; another might take up to a year or more. There are kid trackers online that you can use to determine if you child is where they should be in their progress.

Potty chairs are best for most kids, but a potty seat for the big toilet can work with a little assistance and a step stool.

Before your child has started potty training, start thinking about a reward system that will work for both you and your child. Keep it simple and easy to stick with such as a sticker on the chart for sitting on the potty!

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Quick Facts About Potty Training

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:28:36 +0000

By Elizabeth Pantley, Author of The No-Cry Potty Training Solution

Potty training can be natural, easy, and peaceful. The first step is to know the facts.

The perfect age to begin potty training is different for every child. Your child’s best starting age could be anywhere from eighteen to thirty-two months. Pre-potty training preparation can begin when a child is as young as ten months.

You can begin training at any age, but your child’s biology, skills, and readiness will determine when he can take over his own toileting.

Teaching your child how to use the toilet can, and should, be as natural as teaching him to build a block tower or use a spoon.

No matter the age that toilet training begins, most children become physically capable of independent toileting between ages two and a half and four.

It takes three to twelve months from the start of training to daytime toilet independence. The more readiness skills that a child possesses, the quicker the process will be.

The age that a child masters toileting has absolutely no correlation to future abilities or intelligence.

There isn’t only one right way to potty train – any approach you use can work – if you are pleasant, positive and patient.

Nighttime dryness is achieved only when a child’s physiology supports this–you can’t rush it.

A parent’s readiness to train is just as important as a child’s readiness to learn.

Potty training need not be expensive. A potty chair, a dozen pairs of training pants and a relaxed and pleasant attitude are all that you really need. Anything else is truly optional.

Most toddlers urinate four to eight times each day, usually about every two hours or so.

Most toddlers have one or two bowel movements each day, some have three, and others skip a day or two in between movements. In general, each child has a regular pattern.

More than 80 percent of children experience setbacks in toilet training. This means that what we call “setbacks” are really just the usual path to mastery of toileting.

Ninety-eight percent of children are completely daytime independent by age four.

This article is an excerpt from The No-Cry Potty Training Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Child Say Good-Bye to Diapers by Elizabeth Pantley.

About the author:
Elizabeth Pantley is the author of several books, including Gentle Baby Care : No-cry, No-fuss, No-worry — Essential Tips for Raising Your Baby, The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night, Kid Cooperation (with an introduction by William Sears, MD), Perfect Parenting, as well as her latest The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers and is also president of Better Beginnings, Inc. She is a popular speaker on family issues, and her newsletter, Parent Tips, is seen in schools nationwide. She appears as a regular radio show guest, and has been quoted in Parents, Parenting, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, American Baby, Working Mother, and Woman’s Day magazines. Visit Elizabeth’s web site http://www.pantley.com/elizabeth.

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Potty Training Facts

Quick Facts About Potty Training