How to Start Toilet Training
Everybody had outgrown their
diaper-wearing days. And as a parent, it is your job to teach your child
to use the toilet as well. Using the toilet or the potty is one of the
most important and essential lessons that a parent must teach to his
children. However, it needs preparation and the right time before taking
a step in training your child to use the toilet.
Before you start teaching your child on how to use the potty, you must
first analyze if your toddler is ready for this. Aside from your child’s
condition, you must also think about how prepared are you for this
training. As your child’s teacher, you must devote ample time and give
the necessary energy so that you can encourage your child to use the
toilet on a daily basis. More often than not, training a toddler to use
the potty takes as much as 3 months.
Once you know that both of you are ready, you may now start preparing
for your child’s toilet training. If you go inside your bathroom to pee
or to poop, you can bring your child with you in the bathroom. Make sure
that he feels comfortable inside. Experts said that it is alright to let
your child see how you urinate or defecate in the toilet. This is a way
that would help them easily understand the purpose of the toilet. Let
them play with the flush after you do your business inside the bathroom.
You can also introduce him first the potty chair or the potty seat
before your train your child to use to toilet. By doing so, you will let
your child become familiar with the potty. Let him touch it, sit on it,
play with it, and observe it. You might also want to consider buying
several potties if you have a multi-level home. Tell your toddler that
the potty is his own special chair. Do not force him to sit on the potty
if he does not want to.
By the time that your little trainee got used to the potty seat or potty
chair, try to let him sit on it without his pants and his diapers. He
must know how it feels like to sit on the potty without his clothes on.
Moreover, he must also feel comfortable with it so that he can be
comfortable with the whole toilet training process as well.
To visually explain the purpose of his potty seat, you may get the stool
out of his soiled diaper and place it into the potty chair. Tell your
child the “poop” and “pee” goes inside the potty chair. Let him flush
the toilet so that he will know what he is supposed to do after
urinating and after bowel movements.
Although it was mentioned a while ago that most parents take as much as
three months to get over with the whole toilet-training process, there
are some cases that it would still take longer. However, you should not
be exhausted or frustrated with your child’s development. You must be
supportive and show patience to your toddler so that potty training will
not be stressful and traumatic to the child. There is also no need to
punish your toddler if he made a mess or had an accident while training. |
