{"id":2468,"date":"2025-02-05T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:02:26","slug":"answering-your-top-5-questions-about-potty-training-toileting-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"Answering your top 5 questions about potty training (toileting) Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

We begin part two of\u00a0Answering Your Top 5 Questions About Potty<\/em>\u00a0Training<\/em>\u00a0by stressing that\u00a0a child doesn\u2019t actually need to be \u2018trained\u2019 but GUIDED<\/strong>. We don\u2019t expect our babies to be able to do a perfect pirouette from the first ballet class.<\/p>\n

A child will not do anything unless they feel like it.<\/p>\n

4.How do I start?<\/strong><\/p>\n

With baby steps, of course.<\/p>\n

Let your child sit fully-clothed on the potty so he or she will get familiar with it.<\/p>\n

Set tiny goals, like using the potty first thing in the morning and after meals.<\/p>\n

Five minutes each time is usually enough.<\/p>\n

Give him or her lots of fluids with meals and avoid eating\/drinking right before bed.<\/p>\n

Make it part of their bedtime routine.<\/p>\n

Take your daughter to the toilet with you when you feel that you have to go. Let Daddy or an older brother show your son.<\/p>\n

Make a song out of it. Wash, dry, dress, flush and wash your hands! Set the tune to a song the child already knows and likes. (You can, of course, use any language you want.)<\/p>\n

Praise and reward him or her if they use the potty. But avoid criticizing them if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

5.After successfully learning to use the bathroom, my child suddenly relapsed back to wetting him or herself. What happened? And how can I deal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Children have their own logic. A huge change in their lives could be a move to a new house or starting daycare, and change adds stress to an already difficult process.<\/p>\n

Try to grasp if there\u2019s a problem you can solve. Some children may be embarrassed\u00a0 or scared to use the toilet. Some may find it disgusting to share the toilet with other kids at school or even with other family members. Some may be worried about independence from Mommy. Some may want to feel in control. To some it simply makes no sense why graduating from diapers to the potty is such a big deal!<\/p>\n

All these scenarios can be managed with patience.<\/p>\n

The important thing is to\u00a0PRAISE<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0ENCOURAGE<\/strong>. \u201cThank you for telling me when you wanted to go pee pee. So what if you couldn\u2019t hold it till the bathroom? I\u2019m proud of you, you\u2019re a big boy now. Let\u2019s add a sticker to the Potty Chart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avoid FORCING, SHAMING or PUNISHING your child<\/strong>. Don\u2019t let them feel your disappointment if they have an accident. Recruit your daycare teachers to your side and let them know what ways you\u2019re using to potty train your baby.<\/p>\n

Expect accidents. They\u2019re not failures but mere setbacks. No one learns from the very first time.<\/p>\n

Telling them they\u2019re yucky or smelly will only hurt their self-esteem.<\/p>\n

Forcing them can make them scared of wetting themselves. This can lead to constipation and encourage urinary tract infections.<\/p>\n

Refusing to speak to them because of an accident can and will create a gap in your mother-son or mother-daughter relationship. Find the best way to make your baby WANT to graduate from diapers to the toilet seat.<\/p>\n

Did we forget something? Which answer did you find most helpful to you? Do you have more questions? Would you like to read more on the subject? Let us know and we\u2019ll post it on Champ\u2019s Nursery Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We begin part two of\u00a0Answering Your Top 5 Questions About Potty\u00a0Training\u00a0by stressing that\u00a0a child doesn\u2019t actually need to be \u2018trained\u2019 but GUIDED. We don\u2019t expect our babies to be able to do a perfect pirouette from the first ballet class. A child will not do anything unless they feel like it. 4.How do I start? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-champ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champsnursery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}