When To Start Potty Training For Babies

GHAZIABAD, India - July 14, 2015 - PRLog -- What Is Potty Training?

Toilet training, largely known as potty training, is basically the process of training a young kid to use the toilet for defecation and urination. Generally the training starts with a device known as ‘potty’, which is actually a smaller device having the shape of toilet bowl.Most of the kids are able to control their bowel before bladder. But potty training depends on the consistency and maturity of the specific child. Toilet training is a sort of mutual task for the parents and the kids. It largely requires understanding, agreement and cooperation between the children and the parents or governesses.

Is It Right Time?

Potty training is a huge step for the kids as well as parents. There are only two secret ways of being successful in training your kids for toilet and those are patience and timing.Potty training readiness actually occurs at different ages for different children. As a parent you have to find out if it is the right time to ease the kid out of its diapers and trains sitting on the potty.Healthy kids are usually not emotionally and physically ready to begin using a potty until they are the age between eighteen months and thirty six months. Girls tend to be ready a few months earlier than boys. Most parents begin potty training when their babies are between the age of two years and three years.Gradually introduce the potty to your baby and try to overcome inevitable struggles with much patience.

How Long Does the Training Take?

A kid takes about three months to be trained with potty. But as already told generally a baby girl takes a little less time than a baby boy. A kid is usually considered toilet trained when it knows that he must rush to the toilet. Moreover, he or she must be able to climb up the potty without or with help sometimes. Help your child with wiping just after the bowel movement till the age of four or five years. Kids often find it difficult to do it themselves when they use different toilets like public restrooms etc. They usually need help for using those toilets till the age of five or six years.

Things Related to Such Training

While you teach your kid proper potty training you must focus on a few things which are known to him or her. If your kid is well aware of the following points, you will get the hint of your success in potty training your kid.

• The baby knows when to use the toilet

• How the kid must hang on until and unless it reaches the washroom

• He/ She knows how to use the toilet in a proper way

• Your kid must know how to flush

• The way he/she must pull up as well as down before and after using the toilet

• How to wipe his/her bottom himself/herself

Make It Enjoyable

Place a potty device in the washroom or at a place wherever your kid spends most of his or her time. Ask them to decorate the potty chair. Encouraging your kids to sit on the potty is quite necessary. Your baby's potty training experience must be positive from all perspective. If it becomes a burden or struggle or even a battle of wills, you should ease up. You may even stop it for a while to give a break to your kid.There are potty training songs which make this particular task far more enjoyable for the children. There are also such songs which show the sequences of the necessary steps needed from a child’s perspective. Look for various new methods making toilet training enjoyable for your children.