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Q: How do you start toilet training?
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Snacks after dinner
Don´t sabotage your own efforts at nighttime toilet training. Stop all drinks and food at least one hour before bedtime. If bedwetting or wet diapers result, try limiting snacks 1-1/2 hours before bed.
Protect Your Mattress
Invest in a plastic mattress cover for all beds that your toddler sleeps in. If a bedwetting incident happens and changing the linen is not an option, cover the area with a towel and change in the morning.
Encouraging successful Toilet Training
Remind yourself daily that your toddler is just learning a new skill. If an "accident" happens, it is NOT a mistake, just an inconvenience to you. Try to praise any little attempt your child made to avoid the situation.
Potty Training Trick
Gather together 3 or 4 toys that can be water toys. They will become special "potty" toys that can only be played with while the child is sitting on the potty! Once the child is sitting on the potty fill a large bowl or small bucket with lukewarm or tepid water, place the new "potty" toys in the bowl and set the bowl of water in front of the child. When the child places his/her hands in the lukewarm water to play with the toys, if the child needs to go potty, the warm water will help to speed up the process.
When to Go
Most people (kids included) wake up with a very full bladder in the morning. When potty training your child, make sure the first thing they do in the morning is to sit on the potty. They´ll get accustomed to using it, and will develop a habit of going when they wake up.
