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Have you tried to start potty training your toddler and found that it’s not going as well as you expected or wanted it to? Some children seem to want to resist every potty training attempt that you mae, while others seem interested and “get it” straight away – or nearly so!

As a parent you’ll be able to tell when your toddler is ready to start potty training. At around two or three years old most children will be about resady to start.

Here are a few things that you can do to make it a bit easier on both you and your them.

1. It’s worth starting practicing using the toilet at about the age of two. The first thing is to buy a small potty chair or a potty seat that fits over the normal sized toilet. If yourtddler is a boy the hairs/seats usually have a shield at front as contol of where things are going is not well established! To familiarise them, bring the potty chair into the room where they spend most of their time on a day or weekend when you have a bit of free time. You should then let them run around in just a shirt with their diaper off - if they are wearing a diaper they will never get the idea that when they urinate it’ll run down their legs and be uncomfortable as well as making .

2. Make sure before starting to potty training that you’re not likely to be disturbed with , guestsetc or other distractions as we dn’t want them to see you panicing when someone arrives and to associate potty training with that panic.

3. Try to avoid using words like “dirty”, “stinky,” or “naughty”. as these negative terms can make your toddler feel self-conscience and ashamed. Talk about urination and bowel movements in a simple, matter-of-fact way after all it’s something that we all do!.

4. You can use their favorite action figure or doll on a pretend potty, explaining “the baby is going pee in the potty.” You can even put diapers on their favorite stuffed doll/action figure and then gradually move the figure over to normal underwearto underwear.

5. It’s aslo worth chatting with them about how good it will feel when they’re potty trained. You can talk to them about not having rashes anymore, abou nt having to have their diaper changed and how good it feels to be clean and dry. You can also explain how being potty training is an important stage of growing up.

6. Some toddlers respond well to a “potty day”. This is the day that your child would like to start potty training. Get them to use a bright colour to put a circle on the calendar and each day untilthen get them to cross off he days – the excitement and interest that this can create can be very powerful.

It will usually take a few practice sessions for a toddler to understand what they are supposed to be doing and be totally potty trained. It’s important to persevere – no two children will be alike but you will both get where you need to be and be able to mlook forwrd to a clean a resful future.