Tips to Make Potty Training Easier
Simple Pointers that will Help your Toddler out of Diapers.
Warm weather, an attractive potty, effective communication, a potty routine, reasonable expectations and praise. Practise these tips to reduce potty training stress.
Successful potty training can be an exhausting milestone to achieve, both for you and your toddler. Here are some random tips that can ease the transition from nappy to potty.
Start When the Weather is Warm
Your toddler is likely to pass urine less frequently during the warmer and hotter weathers - therefore it is advisable to wait for the sun to shine. Basically, avoid winter, the rainy part of spring and the monsoon season if you are looking for a less stressful route to successful potty training.
Your child may enjoy the outdoors during the hotter weathers, making it less of a fuss if he or she leaks when running around int he garden. Additionally, by the fact that he or she will be sweating far more, will reduce the need to use the toilet.
Buy an Attractive Potty
Buy a potty that your toddler would be attracted to. If she likes pink, try looking for a pink potty. The more interests she shows in her potty, the more likely she would be enthusiastic to use it correctly.
Talk About the Potty
Bodily waste is part falls into the "crude word" category for adults, especially when used out of context. To potty train your toddler, go back to using the words he or she understands when you refer to number 1 and number 2.
Talk about the potty and what it is for. Tell him that it is exclusively his and how that he is a big boy and can do without diapers. Children thrive on your attentive encouragement, so do not doubt your ability to become his personal coach.
Practice a Routine
Routines allow children to feel secure. Create a potty routine as you would for a nap or meal routine. Walk through a simple routine with her. You could say, "first, we take off your panties," and show her how to remove her underwear. "Then, we sit on the potty and wait for a while." Try to wait out a few minutes. Then you can tell her, "Mummy will wash you, then we wipe dry and then we can wear your panties again."
Slowly your toddler will be able to catch onto a routine and understand his or her role in completing the whole cycle.
Keep Reasonable Expectations
If your child is experiencing a few too many leaks out of the potty and you yourself are feeling a little exasperated with the mess, take a breather. A disheartened child is harder to handle that paddles of urine on the floor. Toddlers thrive on successfully completing tasks rather than failing continuously.
Take a few days off but keep the potty in sight. After a while he or she might want to try again, or you could gently coax him or her into having another go.
Use Plenty of Praise
Again, children thrive on praise. Once your child has successfully used the potty, be generous with your praise. He will be enthusiastic to please you again and will more likely remember the feeling of having to use the potty,
