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Potty Training / Toilet Training

Left: Ikumi Chihiro Nishida and Right: Rhianna Cheffings

These little girls are my cousins. They were little kids on this picture but they're a bit older now.

Thanks to my Aunt Michele Cheffings and Cherry Gay Cahilsot for allowing me to post my cousins' pictures.

This part of my article is so far the hardest, the toughest and the most that requires patience in all the baby handling activities I have shared – Potty Training or Toilet Training.

Toilet training according to Wikipedia is the process of training a young child to use the toilet for urination and defecation.

Adorable little Rhianna on her potty seat.

Thanks to my Aunt Michele Cheffings for the picture.

Thanks also for the tips for POTTY TRAINING.

Pretty little lady Chihiro

This is her latest solo pic I got from her FB.

Thanks to my Aunt Cherry Gay Cahilsot for the photo.

More than just training the child to urinate and defecate in a toilet, I define potty training or toilet training as teaching little ones how to use the toilet with much responsibility and much effort, time and patience for the mom or whoever is guiding the child.

But take note, this practice is not tedious. It is rather exciting and challenging for both the mommy and the baby because this is also another learning process. This kind of progress requires a team effort.

Please consider that the readiness of the child to potty train or toilet train does not come along with age. It comes along with emotional readiness. I connected it with emotional readiness since disposing your own waste is a responsibility.

Some little ones would start potty training at age 2, some 2 and half years old and others even older, according to some articles I have read.

Potty training readiness:

1. Can the child follow simple instruction?

Example: Please sit down. Kindly drink your milk. Please come over here.

Reason: If a child can follow a simple instruction, therefore he is ready to follow step by step process in potty training.

2. Can the child give signs of urination or defecation?

Example: Holding his genital. Standing still and lifting one foot. Funny constipated face.

Reason: If a child gives simple signs, therefore a mom should take note and remember the signs so mom could immediately help the baby.

3. Can the child pull his pants or underpants down?

Reason: If a child knows how to do this, therefore he is ready to remove his underpants for him to pee or poop.

4. Is the child showing interest in peeing or defecating?

Example: When a child watches mom or dad pee or poop.

When a child plays with the toilet flush.

Reason: If a child shows interest, therefore it only means he is ready to imitate and learn that process.

5. Can the child have longer dry periods?

Example: When a child has 2 hours straight of dry period.

When a child has urination pattern or poop pattern.

(Note: There are pee or poop patterns that a child has. But each child is unique so, that means they have different patterns. Some would pee every 2 hours and some every after drinking so much water and milk.)

Reason: If there is urination pattern, it would be easier for the team (mom and child) to pull this off. However if there’s no pee or poop pattern, but you feel that the child is ready then make a pattern. One good pattern for you to make would be; Try to let him pee when he wakes up in the morning, before he takes his shower or bath, when he wakes up after an afternoon nap, shower before bed time and during midnight.

Requirements:

1. Throw diapers. This is not literal throw. This means you may or may not give it to someone else who needs it but at least do not let your child use it for the whole training duration and until the time the little angel could already urinate and poop on his own.

(Potty training not only help the child but helps parents save more money. Less diaper means more savings. Using of soap and water means lesser rashes.)

2. Be patient. Be very patient. Control your temper (for those short tempered moms like me).

3. Appreciate more. Every time he does good in the entire process, give him encouraging words like good job, great, nice one, nicely done or very good. This works all the time!

4. Smile a lot. Smile every time he does potty training. Even without encouraging words but just a smile would make a child do better the next time.

5. Be prepared. Be prepared for cleaning up the mess, the whole restroom afterwards and even replacing the WET bed sheets and pillow cases. This happens all the time. It’s normal.

(My son Kurt at age 1 year and 11 months already mastered his pee technique for potty training during DAYTIME and still practicing for poop technique. Sometimes, he still pees on bed and makes himself wet all over during NIGHT TIME. But I never scolded him; instead I talk to him in a nice way that he should use the restroom and the toilet. I also emphasized the question “Have you seen mommy pee or poop on bed? Have you seen daddy pee or poop on bed?”)

6. Remind constantly. Remind the child to tell you if he feels urinating or there is an urge to poop.

That's it for today! Have fun reading!

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Don’t forget to visit the following articles: (It might help you understand your babies.)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/03/lets-talk-about-it.html (About when babies start to talk)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/02/every-single-step-counts.html (About crawling and walking)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/02/lets-scribble-and-have-some-fun.html (About scribbling)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/02/sharing-some-one-year-old-activities.html (About 1year old activities your kids could do)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/02/eat-on-my-own-as-mom-i-get-frustrated.html (About picky eaters)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/02/no-more-worries-mommy.html (About baby cries and their meanings)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/02/cant-smile-without-you.html (About first erruption of tooth)

http://joneepslimwitch.blogspot.com/2013/02/he-throws-everything-1-2-year-old-kids.html (About motor development)