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Read the following twelve potty training methods to ensure that you are on your way to potty training success.
These are the major potty training DO’s!
Potty Training Method #1
Read up. Learning from the experience of others will help you prepare your own toddler.
It may feel like you’re the first one to ever go through the trials of toilet training, but the endless anecdotes of others will tell you that you’re not alone.
Potty Training Method #2
Demonstrate. Use every opportunity to model your most desired behavior. Every time a parent must use the restroom is another teachable moment. This is especially true when it comes to the same sex parent. Teaching begins with our words, but seeing is always more effective than simply hearing. Use appropriate and easy to understand language such as,We’re going to use the restroom now whenever it is time to transition.
Potty Training Method #3
Create autonomy. Empower your toddler by letting them teach a favorite action figure or doll the same life skill that they themselves are expected to learn. This will give them ownership and fuel their natural desire for performance and parental validation.
Potty Training Method #4
Choose your vocabulary. Choose your words with care. It is unfair if you do not explain your purpose before piling it high with expectation. Not only does your child deserve to have things explained, they are far more likely to succeed when you do. However, the language you use will be the language they use. If you would like for your child to tell his or her dolly that it is time to go #2 rather than caca, you must be the one to set that example.
Potty Training Method #5
Make the restroom a routine. Consistency is important. Most of us have learned to ignore the tick and tock of our own internal timepiece, but children are still exceedingly aware. Design potty breaks during regular transition times while staying consistent with the timer and you will find your child falling into a natural pattern sooner rather than later.
Potty Training Method #6
Listen to their body. Like thirst or hunger, elimination is a physical need. You must monitor your child’s liquids and account for minutes lapsed. Have your child attempt elimination every twenty to thirty minutes until they find their own natural rhythm.
Potty Training Method #7
Switch from diapers to training pants. Empower your child, they are no longer a baby. Send them a clear message that it is time to graduate, and include them in the process as much as possible. It will be far easier to get your child excited about getting into underwear and ditching their diaper when the move is decisive. All training pants and clothing should be easy to slip up and down by the wearer without assistance, placing greater control in the toddler’s hands, and improving the odds of getting to the restroom on time. Remember, empowerment and independence are the ultimate aim. After all, isn’t that what a temper tantrum is all about, control and theI can do it by myself feeling that every toddler invariably feels?
Potty Training Method #8
Motivate. Discuss the habits of older friends and relatives and help your child to make the connections between their new skills and the daily actions of others around them. Accentuate the many positive gains of losing the diaper. Wearing underwear is a road leading to bigger and better adventures. Once your child truly understand this, it will be far easy to move forward fast.
Potty Training Method #9
Reward your child with praise and encouragement. Celebrate every effort, but reward your child without fail whenever successful elimination occurs. You can sing their favorite song, give them a sticker for their chart, or get them on the phone with their favorite larger than life character. Our daughter phoned Barney while our son preferred Santa, but both were able to feel the immediate results of their effort.
Potty Training Method #10
Teach hygiene. Wiping from front to back, flushing, and being responsible for your own waste are all learned behaviors. It is up to us to teach these things to our child, and there is no better time than right in the beginning.
Potty Training Method #11
Explain your approach to your caretaker. If your child cannot be with you during all daylight hours, then it is in your best interests to articulate your plan and associated needs to whoever is watching. Caretakers should reinforce your effort rather than dilute your progress.
Potty Training Method #12
Exhibit patience. Relapses will happen, and you cannot always expect a command performance from your child. Keep your eyes and ears open for signals, constantly search for patterns, and understand that potty training is a process, not an event.
Next time we’ll cover a few potty training don’ts.
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I am 14 years old and I was put to the task to potty train my 2 1/2 year old brother this summer. I tried absolutely everything from patiently waiting to sitting him on the potty for several hours in front of the tv, but nothing seemed to work. Its now only 3 more weeks ntil I start school and I lost hope, but I decided to give it one last shot with a combination of different methods. Yesterday I told my brother that there would be no more diapersa and left him bare bottom all day, every 20 minutes or so I’d set off a ringtone on my phone and declared it potty time. After the second ring, Aaron would immediately go to his potty and sit there. I would let him hold the phone and replay the song 4 times. After no success and 1 ‘poopy’ accident I thought that this was another failure. But afyter waking up from his nap with a dry diaper I decided to ask him if he would like to go use the potty and he immediately ran to the potty, asked me to pull his diaper down and sat down and filled the bowl!!!!!!! I was so excited and had him dump it in the toilet and gave him 2 stikers to put on his chart. After that we went out to the store and he refused to put on a diaper to go out……..so we took a chance and let him go out in regular underwear. He did not pee in his underwear and when we got home (after 4 hours) we rang the timer and he sat down on the potty and peed in it!!! Today we only had 1 accident while we were out walking the dog but after that he has peed in the potty once during the timer session and once on his own!!!!!!(he even tried to dump the pee in the toilet himself). I am so proud of him. We went from refusing to go to the potty at all to being able to go by himself in 1 1/2 days. !!!!!!! We will definately continue this method extending the time between rings until he is able to go completely on his own. I expect he will be fully potty trained in 2-3 weeks………just in time for school!!!!
P.S……Do Not use Pull-ups as they feel no different from a diaper.Its just a waste of time and money.