Potty Training Tips

So you are thinking of potty training your baby.

But you have heard some horrific stories about toilet training gone wrong and you are asking yourself, if there is something you could do, to avoid a similar experience and to make the baby potty training procedure less stressful for both, you and your child.

Honestly, potty training a baby can be a lot easier, by following some simple steps before you start,  I call pre potty training tips:

• Try to avoid using pull-up diapers. According to commercials on TV, they are designed to make baby potty training easier, but in fact, they confuse your child, by having them think, they are a big boy or girl, just because they can pull them up and down by themselves.
• The truth is, they will keep having potty accidents in them – and you are going to have it a lot harder to monitor than if they would wear underwear.
• Try to wean your child off drinking appr. 2 hours before bedtime. This is going to make it a lot easier once you start the baby potty training.
• Do not make jokes about your baby’s poopy diaper, consider instead to stop any reaction altogether. If your child realizes, that having a poopy diaper is funny, they may want to start pleasing you and keep having potty accidents in their diaper just to amuse you.
• If you have to go to the bathroom, take your child with you. Don’t be shy, but let your child see how it is to be a grown up and how grown ups use the toilet. Answer their questions during the process and let them flush the toilet, if they want to. If at all possible, let them see how a member of the same sex uses the toilet. That way boys and girls can see the specific way in which they are supposed to be going potty.
• Do not force your child to sit on the potty. You may think telling them to sit on the potty might be a great way to get them to it, but  it is more likely that this will create some confusion for your child. But having to sit on the potty, without the need to go, they might start seeing the potty as a form of punishment. And this will in the end not help getting them used to the baby potty training idea later on.

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