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It is said that potty training is supposed to help you bond with your baby. There is no right or wrong way to train your child to use a potty chair, and there is no magic age at which your child is ready for the potty training. Generally toddlers develop required physical and cognitive skills at the age of 18–24 months. Some children learn quickly this new skill, while others take time.Start the potty training only when you and your baby are ready.
Choose a time that you are relaxed and can devote time to help your child master this new skill. During the training time do not push your child, punish your child or lose your patience.Here are few suggestions that will help you to overcome this milestone too with ease.

Steps to train your child
  1. Know whether your child is ready for the training. To do that you need to know certain things like:
    • Is your child walking and sitting comfortably?
    • Does your child stay dry for at least 2 h at a time?
    • Is your child having regular bowel movements?
    • Is your child able to follow simple instructions?
    • Does your child feel uncomfortable with dirty diapers and wanting them to be changed?
    • Can your child pull her pants up and down? You should also be able to guess when your child is about to urinate or have a bowel movement by her facial expressions, posture or by what she says.
  2. Make your child comfortable in the bathroom; allow her to play with flushing the toilet.
  3. Choose an attractive potty, or make it attractive by decorating with her favorite cartoon stickers or get her favorite colored potty.
  4. Place the potty in his play room or living room, so that she becomes familiar with the potty. Sit your child on it with her clothes on to watch TV or read as if it were a regular chair. Do not force your child to spend time sitting on the chair.
  5. Once your child is comfortable sitting on the potty with cloths on, now try having your child sit on the potty without wearing pants or diaper. Let your child know how it feels to sit without her cloths on.
  6. Now show your child how to use the potty chair. Place stool from a dirty diaper into the potty chair and allow her to accompany you to bathroom and transfer the stool from the potty chair into the toilet. Let your child play with flushing the stools down the toilet.
  7. Once you know when your child wants to potty, place the potty and teach him to pass the stools in the potty. Encourage and praise her every time she passes the stool in the potty chair and also reward her.






Resistance to potty training can include:
  • Fear of the potty chair.
  • Flushing sound of the water in the toilet would have scared.
  • Punishment for not using the potty.
  • Constipation.
  • Certain medical condition
Points to remember
  • During the training period, whenever she moves on to higher step of learning, praise her and make him feel that you are proud of her.
  • Accept occasional accidents and near misses.
  • It is necessary to go at your child’s pace.
  • When your child is upset she will tend to do more accidents.
  • It would approximately take 3 months to train your child.


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