I decided to scavenged stuff about potty training this week. I have a 33 months old child and he's almost done with potty training; one more to go after him.
I have noticed that my sister's children in the Philippines tend to be potty trained early. Her older two children were potty trained by 14 months. My older three children finished potty training at almost 4! Where's the catch?
If you have heard of a good tip or have one of your own, please feel free to share it with me.
1.
HouseDad has a good tip about taking off the night diapers first thing in the morning and putting on regular undies with an instruction to ask you when they need to take their undies off for potty.
2. A lot of people agree that it's better not to push it.
3. I am all for buying books to read about potty training.
4. I also buy all kinds of potty chairs.
5. Chairs which never get good use because my children seem to think they are toys and only stuff toys should use it.
6.
Dr. Greene has load of information about it.
7. I can vouch for the needing lots patience and a nose of steel.
8. I have a child who fell asleep on top of the toilet while he was potty training. DS2 was about 20 months when he decided he can potty trained.
9. That scared me to find him asleep in the toilet like that.
10.
Familydoctor.org urge to not start at all until one has time to devote to it. In that case, my children should never be potty trained as it is impossible to get that much devoted time for anything.
11.
Here you can find preparation index to get an idea when to start.
12. My favorite is this
13 tips to know before starting to potty trained.
13. In my opinion, the most important measure of when to potty train is when you and your child are ready. There's really no way to tell, and I believe that it will happen when it happens. And that my friend is probably the main reason why I don't have a potty train child earlier than 2.5 and up. I'm cool with that...if only the
stink is not so bad!
