When start potty training-Useful guide

When start potty training for your toddler to take the seat on the potty? The answer is simple and maybe a happy answer to all of you as parents and caregivers.

Children pick their potty training skills at their own speed. It is the same as other developmental achievements. Also, it does not correlate with other development areas like walking, talking, teething, etc. When to start potty training may not be unique for every kid.

On average, most toddlers master this skill at the age of 2 1/2 years or 31/2 years. It means average boys take 39 months and average girls take 35 months.

If you have started you are an under 2-year-old kid, you mostly have to wait until the beginning of the third year to see the completely trained kid. Our advice is, if your toddler seems eager and starts to roll, it is the best time to start the potty program. As there is no better reason to postpone it.

A child’s cooperation is the key factor to consider in potty training. Because it is a thing that you can not force the child to do. Your kid should be ready for potty training both developmentally and emotionally. Because some children will hop on board earlier and others later

Signs of potty readiness

Until age about 20 months, you are changing fewer wet diapers. If your toddler can stay an hour or two at a stretch and he/she occasionally awakes without wetness it is a good sign to show that your kid is physically ready for potty training.

Some kids announce the bowel movements, (by pooping ) and others communicate it through body language such as treating to a corner for instance or producing primitive grunts.

If your kid is eager to escape from the wet diaper as soon as it got wet or soiled, it is another sign of this readiness. Your child can undress for potty and he/she can talk the potty talk, here allow your child to use family’s words for bathroom activities or any other associated body parts.

Even if all signs are there, your kid may not be ready for the potty. It might say, your kid is going taken to toileting recently.

10-Step potty process

  • Feel it is about to poop and coming
  • Hold it
  • Get to the potty
  • remove or pull down pants
  • sit on the potty
  • push
  • Wipe or wash with help.
  • Get off the potty
  • Pull up pants
  • Flush the toilet

Potty readiness in age categories

12-15 months

Most kids don’t show any potty readiness. A little minority shows some signs. At the of 15 months, some category shows that they can “feel it pooping and coming”.

15-18 months

  • The toddler may start with some potty words as this age category shows a few language skills among toddlers.
  • They describe what has happened to the diaper area
  • 18-24 months
  • Potty readiness signs will probably become more apparent.
  • Your kid loves to sit little kid potty with the diaper mostly and read the toilet books, pretending a doll is using the potty

Step by step for the potty preparation

Look for a kid-size and fairly heavy potty (which won’t tip over when your child jumps up to check progress ). Also, you can choose a potty seat that simply attaches to your grown-up toilet.

Try to find the various ways to introduce your toddler to what the potty is for ( you can use funny pictures, clothes, videos, and model demonstrations)

Whenever the child is ready to pee or poop, produce a potty instead of a diaper. Here you can use funny underpants, and funny pictures to make the procedure successful. Most toddlers show obvious signs of poop or pee and try to suggest that he/she should do it on the potty instead of in the diaper. Ready a few interesting things which your kid likes most as tokens.

You should explain to your child, how to squat, push, wipe, and flush. Here you simply take the potty to the bathroom and demonstrate. So don’t feel bad about skipping this step. But try to do this demonstration as it helps a lot. At your very first diaper-free trial run, demonstrate funny body language on how to wear it and highlight the perks of using the potty.

  1. Get a few potty training books and read them together with your kid.

EX: Everyone poops, Once upon a potty, etc. Share the experience with other moms and their kids. It will help your little one feel more comfortable when leaping onto the seat.

2. Try to change your kid’s diaper in the bathroom, where they can see the little potty. Then they can understand the connection between the two. Try to flush together with your kid in the bathroom and make it a funny thing. So, they try to repeat the activity.

3. Let your child be a model teacher with their dolls and such like toys. You can encourage your child to follow the steps in a potty with their dolls and let them understand the procedure.

4. Get in the habit of dressing and undressing your toddler easily. (pants that fill up and down easily without fiddling. don’t use tricky buttons, or zippers )

5. Use a conversational pattern like “Let’s see who can pull down pants faster”

6. More practice the better.

7 . Prevent potty overload.

Important Approaches to Potty learning

Take your toddler to the bathroom at regular intervals and sit with him or her at the toilet. By trickling water, you can encourage the flow of urine. Here you can turn on the bathroom faucet when the toddler sits on the potty.

Also, remind your toddler throughout the day to go to the potty. You can just think when to whisk your toddler into the potty if you pay more attention to him/her. To do this watch for their grunting, going off to a corner, squirming

If you are too late and your toddler has already done the deed, try him/her to the potty to reinforce the connection. If your kids have predictable times to poop such as after waking up in the morning, after lunch, etc.) Be sure to take him/her to the bathroom to take a break.

It may be hard to ignore the urine when there is no diaper to hold in. So, try to keep the potty close by. So your kid can act their own body signals. Always try to cheer your kid every step of the way. Give him/her a lot of praise and smiley stickers. Be a big potty booster.

Avoid making baby references when your toddler attempts to fail. ( ” only babies pee in their pants” )

Positive reinforcement can make a big success within your kids. Every time your toddler produces in the toilet, reward him with a sticker, sweets, toy, etc. If your toddler is ready to get up, do not force him to sit on the potty.

If you got poor results, maybe you pushed a little too hard. If so, just bring back the diapers. Give them a break and restart with a satisfactory break.

Conclusion

Identifying the right time for potty for your toddler may be varied to one. potty skills are like all developmental achievements. children take their own speed to achieve potty skills. If you can identify and get a sound understanding of how an average toddler achieves potty skills, it may be helpful for you to make an idea about your child.

Studies show that there is no inherent advantage in starting toilet learning early. It is better to wait until past the 24-month age of your kid. Also, there is no reason to postpone the potty program if your toddler shows good mobility like rolling.

10 thoughts on “When start potty training-Useful guide”

  1. Many time we as parents are not listening to our toddlers and we don’t get to help them early. This was the case of my first born, neither i nor the mother understood the signs but when my second child came we understood him and before his 1year birthday we new he was ready for the potty. He would detach his diapers by himself and push it away when it is wet, and the moment we introduced him in less than some few days he got used to it 

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  2. This is article is packed with enough knowledge for yet to be parents or betterstill newly married couples who do not have kids yet. Knowing when to start potty training for one’s toddler is a knowledge I would say can not be traded for anything else. Thanks for this educating article. I got to learn a lot and I am glad about it.

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  3. This is an important and very useful guide, post and potty resources.
    I wish I had come across it sooner!  We have an only child and we knew she was a bit late.  Reading your milestones now highlighted that.  Just like all humans there is resistance to change and we rattled our brains of ways to make this process a bit more fun.  Our child like books so we found a potty training story book (this type of book could help your readers too?)

    This was useful because we could read the story outside of the toilet process to help our child get familiar with the process.  It also had a sticker reward poster and she loves stickers.  This made it a lot more fun with a wee reward and a poop reward that we added in as incentives.

    Thanks for your great article on this process.  A must read for new parents!

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    • I highly appreciate your comment as it is through your personal experiences. those types of life experiences are very valuable for me to create the direction of this website.thank you very much.

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  4. This is very interesting and informative! I don’t have children but I can fully remember how my little brother and sisters dealt with the whole process. And I can also remember the anxiety of my parents! I guess that every parent is anxious when it comes to this kind of progress in the life of their children, like the first time their children use the potty, and for sure they ask themselves a lot of questions and have a lot of doubts! So, it is pretty useful to find these kinds of tips online! 

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