An entertainingly written article by Dr Knapp, giving his perspective on potty training, including some of the differences between boys and girls... Click on the headline link above for details.
Potty Training
Your child is now potty trained!!! Wow you did not know that! They are not going on the toilet but all kids are potty trained by 18 months of age .... in that they know how to go, where to go, the name for it, and they even will occasionally sit on the potty and grunt. Nothing happens because their brains cannot control the muscles. CANNOT control the sphincters. The child will go on the toilet when they are able to: 1. Recognize the full bladder or rectum (you do not teach that, they figure it out on their own) 2. Communicate it to you by patting the dry diaper and saying pee pee or poo pootechnorati tags:potty training, toilet training, toddler, bowel control, bladder control