Before reading this, it’s a good idea to be familiar with my previous articles: “What You Need to Know Before You Start Potty Training Your Child” and “Prepare You and Your Child for the Potty Training Challenge.” Potty-training a child is a challenge and you need to be completely prepared before you start.
I will refer to the boy as “that” to make this article easier to read but you can use this method to train a boy or girl.
The night before you actually start your child on the potty, tell him (especially at bedtime) phrases like: “Tomorrow you’re going to wear your new big boy pants”, “Mammy so proud of you, tomorrow you’re going to start learning to go to bed”.
The big day has arrived. I know this is easy to say and you will feel washed out at the end of the day (I know I did!), but try to be as relaxed as possible. They have a stock of baby wipes ready to be used to clean the ends of babies, but they are also very effective. in cleaning carpets and upholstery, which I discovered. Let’s be honest, you’re not going to shampoo your clothes once you need a pin in it, leave it for when the toilet training ends.
To agree If you are ready to give up after a few hours, the little devil will sense this and play on it. Remember that you are the parent, don’t let your child drive you around.
As soon as your child wakes up, take him to the toilet or potty. Try to keep him sitting there for at least 2 minutes and praise him for being such a good boy sitting on the toilet. if he does something, praise him even more; If nothing comes, say maybe next time and make a club about the new big boy under where he can use it all day. Shake ups don’t try to use it; They feel too much like nappies. Try and keep your routine as normal as possible.
Set an alarm (on your mobile phone, watch…) to ring every 20 minutes at the beginning. Make sure your child can hear the alarm and when it sounds saying, “It’s time to go to the bathroom!” If he doesn’t want to go, just take him to the bathroom. Once there, try again to keep him sitting for two minutes. Give him lots of comfort and praise him when he uses the toilet.
When this was done, the alarm rang again 20 minutes later. If you notice that your child does not do anything more than the time, nor between any accidents (which usually happens in the older age), the fear increases the distance.
When it’s time to go to bed, you can put the nappy back on. Try not to replace it too early, you should unpack the nappy only at bedtime, but make sure he knows he can get out of bed to go to the toilet at night if he needs to. I had some time with my other daughter that I didn’t want to go to the secret through ” but he would get out of bed to sleep until it was time to fall asleep (sometimes his nappy was dry in the morning, I thought he would be dry at night time the day before. -time!).
You must be very patient, because this will take a few weeks (sometimes months). Remember that your little friend is learning, don’t scold him for doing something that he has been allowed to do all his life, sometimes even encouraged (remember how happy you were when you were constipated in a dirty nappy?). If she has an accident, just clean her up and say that she will have to do it again in the bathroom, don’t act angry and keep a neutral tone, try to focus on the child’s actions and the incident from your mind. as quickly as possible. Children love praise, it boosts their self-esteem; Arguing will only make you and your child miserable and not make the potty-training process any easier. Baby wipes, on the other hand, will make your life easier.
If this scene seems to go on forever, and your toddler still doesn’t go to bed on his own, try giving him more freedom. I mean, I try to bring him to the bathroom less often, to remind him that he needs to tell you when he needs to go to the bathroom. You can try a sticker or a sweet reward when he does something in the toilet (this will only work if you don’t give him anything else for the rest of the day).
Eventually it will start to tell you when you need to go to bed. Remember that accidents will still happen; This is completely normal for them to cry out. Be patient and keep smiling. Even when your child is potty trained successfully, it is important to cuddle and praise him, children sometimes withdraw after training they are potty trained and I think one of the reasons why they don’t lack attention is that they were potty trained.
Potty training is very difficult, both for children and parents, and it can sometimes feel like you’re going crazy. but when your child begins to progress, the whole world will light up and in a few years from now, you will look at the whole process with a smile and say: “See, it wasn’t so difficult after all!
