Potty Training Guidance

Potty/Toilet Training Your Child

The following article from dot com Women provides some handy pointers on potty training your child!

Potty/Toilet Training Your Child
There is no age limit to when you should start toilet training your child. Most toddlers start to use the toilet/potty between the age of one - two years, some might take even longer. This is a new experience for your child so be patient. You will win in the end. Here are a few pointers to help you out.
How do I know when my child is ready?
Boys tend to stay in nappies longer than girls, but most children are ready to potty-train sometime between their second and third birthdays. Some children train themselves when they're about 18 months old, while others show no interest until after their fourth birthday.

Potty/Toilet Training Your Child

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Babykeeper Needed for Potty Training?

The Babykeeper: toilet training with visual aids - Engadget

Letting your child watch while you do your thing on the toilet is a great way to get them interested in doing it themselves, but could this idea take it just a little too far? It would be handy for keeping your little one out of mischief though when you need to go in public places! See the article for more...

The Babykeeper: toilet training with visual aids
Posted Aug 30th 2006 10:26AM by Evan Blass
We've seen our fair share of strange and / or gimmicky products around here, but the Babykeeper by Mommysentials has to be one of the creepiest. This contraption allows you to hang your six to eighteen month old infant on the door of a public toilet stall while you, um, do your business.

The Babykeeper: toilet training with visual aids - Engadget

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Potty Training Phobias

Toilet Terrors and Other Potty Training Fears

Fear is a big issue for many toddlers, particularly around the age of 2 to 3.

Your child may very well relate to some of the issues raised in the following article from Zip Baby:

Toilet Terrors & Other Potty Training Fears
Potty training fears, often called toilet terrors, are common among toddlers and small children. Look at things from your child’s perspective. He is giving up the security of a diaper for a big, cold thing with a giant hole that might swallow him. Up until this point, your child has been able to go in his diaper. He didn’t have to control himself until a potty was available. He could go anytime and anywhere, knowing that someone would always be there to change his diaper.

Toilet Terrors and Other Potty Training Fears

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Toilet Training Program

Toilet Training (step-by-step)

The following site has a great little article on potty training your child by Esther Wolfson - take a look!

Toilet Training Step By Step
by Esther Boylan Wolfson
Director, Early Childhood Development Center

Toilet Training (step-by-step)

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Toilet Training Concepts

Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Toilet training

The following article provides some useful pointers on the concepts and principles of potty training. Check out the PDF link at the end of the article as well, for some useful pointers...

Toilet training
Contents
* When will my child be ready?
* Getting ready to toilet train
* Starting toilet training
* Hygiene
* Toilet training troubles
* Hiding when doing poo
* Spreading poo around
* Physical problems
* What parents can do
* Bedwetting
* Reminders

Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Toilet training

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Off with the Fairies?

Here is an interesting link from New Zealand, playing pixies and using 'fairy rewards' to encourage potty training.

Going potty with pixies

By Kevin Childs 22 Feb 2007

From Glenorchy and Kelvin Heights come NZ’s latest child behaviour aids

IN MAY last year a former chef living in Glenorchy was thinking about potty training – and her child’s behaviour.

As a climber who’s tackled peaks around the world, Glyn Barry knows challenges. So she joined with two like-minded local women and they came up with an idea that sent them away with the fairies – and the pixies.

Healthy Bowel Habits

The following article provides some suggestions for potty training your child, to avoid the possible complications of constipation and hemorrhoids. Click on the link below for further details..

Toilet Training & the Importance of Teaching Children Healthy Bowel Habits
Toilet training is the best time to start teaching your child about good bathroom and bowel habits. The lessons that are taught during these formative years are ones that will help them be hemorrhoid and constipation free in the future.

Toilet Training to Avoid Future Hemorrhoid & Constipation Problem

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Symptoms and Treatment for Soiling (Encopresis)

Severe constipation and the soiling of pants in children from the age of 4 onward, also known as Encopresis, can be quite embarrassing for the child. The following article from Parenting and Child Health, provides a useful summmary of the known symptoms, and how to treat this condition...

Soiling
* What causes soiling?
* Some facts about soiling
* What parents can do
* Treatment for soiling
* Resources
* References.
Often young children of two or three do their poos in the garden or their pants or anywhere but the toilet. This is part of learning to manage for themselves - for ideas to help them, see the topic on 'Toilet training'. The information in this topic is about long-lasting constipation and soiling, or doing poo in the pants. The topic 'Constipation' has information about more simple-to-manage constipation.

Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Soiling

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Factors Contributing to Constipation and Delayed Potty Training

The following article from ajc.com, provides an insightful background on the contributing factors associated with childhood constipation and resultant delays in potty training. Click on the link below for more information...

Constipation, Personality Traits Delay Toilet Training
If you're having a hard time getting your youngster out of diapers, a new study offers some reassuring news -- your parenting style probably isn't to blame. Constipation and your child's temperament are more likely culprits, conclude researchers in two different studies in the June issue of Pediatrics.

Welcome to AJC! | ajc.com

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Potty Training Reward Box

Potty Training Solutions Introduces Motivational "Reward Box ... - ClickPress (press release)

If you are running out of reward ideas to motivate your child to use the potty, then here is another novel option - check out the two articles below. The last article also provides an online "demo".

Potty Training Solutions Introduces Motivational "Reward Box ... ClickPress (press release), UK - 12 Feb 2007 Potty Training Solutions, the number one online source for potty training products, announces the availability of a brand new, motivational reward system ... New Online Demo for Potty Training Rewards :: MediaSyndicate :: Free Press Release, PR, IR, News Post & Media Relations New Online Demo for Potty Training Rewards Home & Family: Parenting We invite you to experience how Potty Training Rewards positively reinforces your child’s potty training by viewing our Online Demo. Unfortunately we have not figured out a way for you to sample the chocolate via the internet!!

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Are You Holding Your Child Back in Potty Training?

The following article, with thanks to Dr Gail Gross, questions whether you are ready for your child to grow up...

When The Diapers Gotta Go
Ever wonder how old is too old for a child to wear a diaper? Often, a child remains in diapers not because of an inability to be potty trained, but because the parent isn't ready to let go a little bit. For a parent, having a child in diapers can be symbolic. It’s what defines a "baby." Sometimes Mom or Dad (or both) isn’t ready to give up their "baby" just yet.

Pregnancy and Parenting Information and Resources, Topics A-Z - Parenthood.com

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Bedwetting Blues and Staying Dry at Night

While potty training can be a challenge, getting your child to stay dry at night and out of diapers can be another challenge all to itself! Here is an excellent article from Victorian disability online, covering this issue, with great tips. Click on the link below for more information.

Toilet training - staying dry at night
A child usually masters daytime toileting many years before they can keep their bed dry at night. Don’t be concerned if your toddler wets the bed, because most children under the age of five years still urinate in their sleep, and one in 10 younger primary school children do too. Don’t assume that your child can keep their bed dry because they can manage their toileting when they’re awake. It might help if you think of staying dry at night as completely separate to daytime toilet use.

Toilet training - staying dry at night

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Toilet Training Stumbling Blocks

You may feel that you have hit a brick wall if your child is not progressing during toilet training. Here are some great tips from the keepkidshealthy.com website, covering a range of problem issues!

Stumbling Blocks during Toilet Training
by Belinda Chou, MD
You are in the midst of toilet training. Things appear to be going relatively well. Your child appears to understand when she needs to use the potty, and is using it with some regularity. However, there's just one thing...

Stumbling Blocks during Toilet Training - Keep Kids Healthy

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Monky Pee Monkey Poo

Looking for potty of gold - Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription)

Here is a novel idea to help your child in the potty training process - interactive monkey to model and encourage your toddler to go to the potty!

Looking for potty of gold Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription), TN - 6 Feb 2007 So goes the Potty Monkey, a new potty training tool developed by Knoxville pediatric urologist family. ...

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The Pressures of Potty Training

While there are societal pressures to have your child potty trained early, there is no point in proceeding until your toddler is physiologically and mentally ready. The following articles by Deirdre Wilson, courtesy of parenthood.com, cover this issue and some of the differing opinions on when to start and how it should be done...

The Straight Poop About Potty Training
By Deirdre Wilson
“I never really trained them,” Hutchins says. “They trained themselves.” When Jonathan, the oldest, began showing signs of readiness, Hutchins bought a potty and a children’s book about using it. But then, she says, “I let him run around naked. He quickly became aware that something was happening. He never had any interest in the little potty. He had watched us in the bathroom, and he eventually went right to the toilet.”

The Straight Poop About Potty Training - Parenthood.com

Potty Training: Ready or Not?
By Deirdre Wilson
How do you know when your child is ready to learn to use a toilet or potty? Here’s what child-development experts say. A child is ready when he or she: • Urinates or has bowel movements at more predictable times.
• Is aware of and can communicate – verbally or through facial expression – the need to urinate or have a bowel movement.
• Dislikes wet or soiled diapers.
• Has motor skills that include being able to walk to the bathroom, pull down pants, sit on the potty, relax and actually go in the potty.
• Can understand and follow simple directions.
• Has a social/emotional readiness that involves “wanting” to be toilet trained.

Potty Training: Ready or Not? - Parenthood.com

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The Multiples of Training Twins

If potty training one child isn't hard enough, try potty training twins! The following article by Jill Clateman, provides tips from her experiences in training twins, and how this may need to vary from just training the one...

Potty Training Twins
by Jill Clateman
Potty training twins is like gearing up for an Olympic event. It involves double the equipment, double the training time, double the mess, and parents who posses exponentially more patience. Since starting to teach my three and a half year old boys to use the toilet six months ago, I have hit several roadblocks. From my own trials, I have compiled a list of things to watch out for to help other parents of twins navigate through this tough terrain.

Potty Training Twins

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Basics for Toilet Training, Ages 1 - 6

The following two articles by Paula Spencer provide some very useful guidance on toilet training your child broken down into two age groups. Click on the links below for the full story...

Toilet Training Basics, Ages 1 to 3
Paula Spencer
• How do I know when my child's ready?
• How do I get started?
• What's the best method?
• How can I prevent messy accidents?
• How can I make potty training fun?
• When is my child ready to sleep without diapers?
How do I know when my child's ready? Boys tend to stay in diapers longer than girls, but most children are ready to potty-train sometime between their second and third birthdays. There's enormous variation, though: Some children train themselves when they're about 18 months old, while others show no interest until after their fourth birthday. To figure out if it's time to start the process, ask yourself these seven questions.

Toilet Training Basics, Ages 1 to 3 | AHealthyMe.com

Toilet Training Basics, Ages 3 to 6
Paula Spencer

Toilet Training Basics, Ages 3 to 6 | AHealthyMe.com

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Stressful Potty Training?

Potty Training can be a very trying time and quite stressful for both the parent and the child. Positive reinforcement and the right attitude can however go a long way to alleviating that stress. The following article by Seth Mullins provides his thoughts on this issue. Click on the link below for the full article...

Potty Training with Minimal Stress
By Seth Mullins January 10, 2007
Like many parenting accomplishments, potty training is achieved by a combination of both our children's readiness and our own involvement and encouragement. Understanding what this change means in the lives of our young ones can minimize their stress, and ours, during that transition. We will see the best results if we use positive reinforcement and a nurturing approach each step of the way.

Potty Training with Minimal Stress - Associated Content

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Age and Readiness for Potty Training

The following research article from the Pediatrics Journal (click on the link below for full details) provides some very interesting findings on  the age of readiness, as related to boys vs girls,  for  toilet training. It appears that the majority of toddlers are not ready for toilet training until after their second birthday.  Refer in particular to the results and conclusion sections of the abstract (as  extracted and shown below), if  you don't want to  digest the whole  article!

Sequential Acquisition of Toilet-Training Skills: A Descriptive Study of Gender and Age Differences in Normal Children

ABSTRACT

Results. The study included 126 girls and 141 boys; 88% were white. Parents submitted a total of 10 741 weekly surveys (range: 1–73; median: 49 per child). Girls demonstrated toilet-training skills at earlier ages than boys. The median ages for "staying dry during the day" were 32.5 months (95% confidence interval: 30.9–33.7) and 35.0 months (95% confidence interval: 33.3–36.7) for girls and boys, respectively. The median ages for readiness skills for girls and boys, respectively, were as follows: "showing an interest in using the potty," 24 and 26 months; "staying dry for 2 hours," 26 and 29 months; "indicating a need to go to the bathroom," 26 and 29 months. There was a marked concordance in the sequences in which girls and boys achieve individual skills. In addition, the interquartile ranges of the toileting skills varied from 6.9 to 11.4 months in girls and from 7.5 to 14.6 months in boys. Conclusions. In this study population, girls achieve nearly all toilet-training skills earlier than boys, including successful completion. Most children do not master the readiness skills until after the second birthday. The range of normalcy for the attainment of individual skills may vary by as much as a year.

Sequential Acquisition of Toilet-Training Skills: A Descriptive Study of Gender and Age Differences in Normal Children -- Schum et al. 109 (3): e48 -- Pediatrics

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Tips for Toddlers

Child care experts offer tips for tots' food - Bend Weekly

The following article from Bend Weekly News for Bend Oregon provides a few words of advice on potty training, as well as providing useful tips covering a range of other care issues for your child...

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Child care experts offer tips for tots' food Bend Weekly,?OR?- 1 hour ago If your child watches too much TV, is a picky eater, battles you at bedtime or spurns potty training, child care authorities offer some practical advice for ...

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Reward Charts for Potty Training

Click on the link below, for some free reward charts on potty training! Use stickers to track progress, and make it a reward for your child to place the sticker on the chart for a successful event.

POTTY TRAINING CHARTS
Click on the Chart You Like Then you can enter your child's name and print

Potty Training Charts- learn2potty.com

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Toilet Training Problems?

Courtesy of babycenter.com, the link to the article below will take you to some useful discussion on possible solutions to some of the more common toilet training problems...

Toilet training problems and solutions
Approved by the Medical Advisory Board
Reviewed by Paul Young, M.D.
Last updated: July 2005 By the BabyCenter editorial staff
• My child won't use the toilet.
• When I suggest using the toilet, my toddler says no or gets upset.
• My child isn't having a bowel movement on the potty as often as he should, or refuses to go at all.
• My child won't use the toilet at his daycare center or school.
• My child was toilet trained, but then he started having accidents again.

If toilet training isn't going smoothly, take heart: Many families encounter bumps in the road. Here are some of parents' most common complaints, along with suggestions on how to handle them.

Toilet training problems and solutions

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