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Potty Chair – Prince $61.62 A prince needs to have a qualified throne! Great for potty training, this hand painted potty chair sports the prince theme, as well as a toilet paper holder and magazine holder! Some assembly may be required. This product is ISO Certified, MDF (Eco-friendly) and contains Lead Free Paints. It is for children ages 1 to 3 years. The dimensions are 24 x 11.13 x 25.50 inches…. |
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Teamson Kids – Children’s Potty Chair – Wings and Wheels Collection $65.99 A great way to get them started! Great for potty training, with high quality, hand painted and hand carved, they will want to use this potty chair all the time! This product is ISO Certified, MDF (Eco-friendly) and contains Lead Free Paints. It is for children ages 1 to 3 years. The dimensions are 21.25 x 22 x 26 inches…. |
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Potty Chair – School Bus $52.14 Get the kids ready for school! This hand-painted school bus themed Potty Chair includes a toilet paper holder and a magazine holder! Also makes for a great chair for the young ones! Some assembly required. Dimensions: 20″L x 11.5″W x 25″H…. |
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Bear in the Big Blue House – Potty Time With Bear $3.86 Includes the special episode “When You’ve Got to Go!” 25 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English stereo; sing-along songs; bonus episodes “If at First You Don’t Succeed,” “Call It a Day.”… |
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Once Upon a Potty for Him DVD $7.00 Admit it: you never thought you’d be buying a video with the word potty in the title. But it’s been months, and while Junior seems to love his potty, he doesn’t actually do anything in it. So you need some inspiration. Well, you’ve found it. This video expands upon the popular children’s book by the same name in two ways: there’s a sing-along potty song and a 13-minute doctor’s statement for paren… |
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Potty Power – For Boys & Girls $8.89 Initiates and motivates children’s interest in toilet training.Genre: Children’s VideoRating: NRRelease Date: 25-MAY-2004Media Type: DVD… |
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Once Upon a Potty for Her [VHS] $8.95 Prudence–the round-cheeked, pony-tailed heroine of Alona Frankel’s book of the same name–can provide further inspiration to young daughters with her video adventure. As with her print counterpart, the animated Prudence wonders if her grandmother’s gift could be a birdbath or a flowerpot before she settles down to the business at hand. Unlike the book, Prudence gets a grand introduction in the fo… |
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Once Upon a Potty for Him [VHS] $11.05 Admit it: you never thought you’d be buying a video with the word potty in the title. But it’s been months, and while Junior seems to love his potty, he doesn’t actually do anything in it. So you need some inspiration. Well, you’ve found it. This video expands upon the popular children’s book by the same name in two ways: there’s a sing-along potty song and a 13-minute doctor’s statement for paren… |
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Bear in the Big Blue House – Potty Time with Bear [VHS] $5.75 This video for teaching little ones about the potty is one of the most successful because kids can easily relate to the characters from the popular series Bear in the Big Blue House. Even though each character has a specific problem (asking for permission, fear of the unknown, bathroom etiquette), the video scores points for the gentleness and calm it communicates to kids. Bear is always upbeat an… |
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Sesame Street – Elmo’s Potty Time $7.19 Potty training can be fun! Create a positive potty time experience for your child with Elmo, Baby Bear, Grover, and other Sesame Street friends with Elmo’s Potty Time! This amusing and song-filled DVD teaches children that everyone – mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and even monsters-has to learn how to use the potty. Your child will learn that accidents are okay and that it takes time and pra… |
Potty Training
A Look at Potty Training
A Look at a Few Potty Training Methods
When parents start thinking about potty training their child they look to a number of sources for advice; parenting magazines, grandparents, friends and professionals. The number of methods and range of advice is huge, making it a daunting task before even beginning. In the end you just need to find a program that works for you and your child. You may have to use one program for one child and an entirely different program for another child.
Late Potty Training:
Some parents wait until their child is at least two years old before even thinking about potty training. Thinking that they need to wait until their child can verbalize the need to go potty, their child wants to be potty trained and often this isn’t until age 3 or 4.
While some children may train easily at this age for many it makes potty training more difficult. Once a child turns two they want to do everything their way. You say “It’s time to go potty” and they say “No” because it wasn’t their idea. And they will fight to the end to get their way.
An older child is also more mobile and is easily distracted making it difficult to convince them to sit on the potty long enough to accomplish the task. They would rather play than take the time to stop and use the potty.
A big disadvantage to late potty training is that most pre-schools require the children to be fully potty trained. Some parents that potty train late are even faced with the possibility that their child may not be able to start Kindergarten on time because they are not fully potty trained.
The other extreme to late potty training is the EC or Elimination Communication method.
This method relies on the parents recognizing their child’s facial expressions and other cues often from birth. Just as many parents can tell when their baby is tired or hungry based on their cues they can also learn to recognize their child’s elimination cues. Whenever a baby starts showing signs of needing to eliminate the parents are instructed to hold the baby over the potty and make a “shhhh” sound. Eventually the baby associates this sound with elimination and does so on cue.
I realize this method has worked for some parents, but to me it just isn’t practical for most families. Who has the time, especially if you have more than one child or work outside the home, to be consistent with this method?
A nice compromise between the two is the Baby Signs Potty Training Program.
It doesn’t require the constant vigilance of the EC method, but it allows babies to reach communication readiness long before they can speak. The Baby Signs Potty Training Method focuses on potty training before the age of two.
Babies are taught the five potty time signs so they can signal the need to go potty long before they can speak it. By training before the age of two the chances of it turning into a power struggle are significantly reduced. Babies are mobile, but still willing to spend more time in one place. They are at an age where they are excited to learn new things and show them off to parents.
Although the program is designed with the second year in mind the book has an abundance of information for earlier or later potty training. Drs. Linda Acredelo and Susan Goodwyn realize that there are a lot of different types of personalities and circumstances from one family to another and they give instructions on how to be successful with each of them!
POTTY TRAIN YOUR BABY BEFORE 2!
Potty Training
Potty Training
What is the best resource for potty training?
I’m trying to potty train my 3 yr and my 18 month old at the same time. What’s the best resource for potty training. I appreciate any reference you can give me! Thanks!
They will both have different needs and will catch on at different times, I wouldn’t recommend doing them at the same time at all. You may be tempted to have high expectations for the 18 mth old because the 3 year old should catch on reasonably quickly due to maturity. Both at the same time would be pretty busy and create lots of mess/washing.
Step 1 – talk about it and let your children see you going to the toilet for both wee and poo. I know it could be gross but hey if they see you doing it they will know its ok, doesn’t hurt and they will want to mimic you.
Step 1.5 – let them sit on the toilet and be comfortable with it. If they want to sit and sing or read a book thats good. They need to feel comfortable with the place.
Step 2 – there is no turning back, once you get rid of the nappies, thats it you can’t bring em back again – be strong. Only nappies for sleeps if you want, but take the nappy off as soon as they wake up EVERY time – be strong.
Step 3 – take off nappies and replace with underpants. You will have many many dirty underpants – they are NOT going to get it straight away. Get used to this idea and get comfortable with it – its a fact and its ok, thats why God gave us washing machines and strong soaking detergents.
Step 4 – YOU have to remind your child to go to the toilet AND then TAKE them to the toilet regularly eg. every 45 mins or so. This has to happen for the first few days. Best to choose a time that you are at home for a few days in a row and not out and about.
Step 5 – Tell them they are a big kid (or whatever you want) they are fabulous, they are great, give stickers/smiley face on hand/stars or whatever (don’t use food/sweets/candy) to reward them every time they wee or poo on the toilet. Tell them they will get the reward ONLY when they use the toilet. After a few weeks you can stop doing this so much they will probably be over it by then anyway.
Step 6 – They will continue to have accidents – they get busy playing or whatever and forget so get comfortable again with the fact that they could still have accidents for years to come.
Step 7 – Get rid of nappies at sleep times when YOU are ready – you need plenty of sheets for their beds and pyjamas cause again it is likely they won’t get it straight away and will wake up wet, with wet bed and clothes(often in the middle of the night). Get mattress protector (plastic sheet thing to protect bed). Use same principles as above – YOU need to take them to the toilet before they go to bed, YOU need to wake em up to go the toilet through the night once or twice (depending on how much liquid that you gave them late in the day) YOU need to remind them to go to the toilet as soon as they wake up.
If you forget they will too…they will get it eventually…don’t lose heart…we were all there at some point in our lives….be consistent and firm….reward their effort….don’t get cranky at the mistakes accept that they will happen and be at one with the mess!
Good Luck – have fun!
