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Imagine if you were introduced to something new and it was a chore that had a lot of people shouting at you when you get it wrong, or people that keep belittling you and constantly nagging you to get this chore mastered… How would you feel? Would you even like to continue with this learning experience? Certainly NOT! Then how do you expect your child to master his or her baby potty training?

The key here is to make it a wonderful experience. In retrospect your kid won’t end up feeling as despondent as you would feel in the above situation. So in this post, I am going to mention a few suggestions to help you make it fun…

The first thing you need to acknowledge is: how do you feel when your child smiles at you, or when your child laughs or makes a funny face? You feel great, don’t you? That there is all the reward you need. In fact that in itself is your part of making this a pleasurable experience for you. That is your fun!

Now to make this fun for your child, here are a few possibilities:

• When your child pees, how about throwing some food coloring in the potty and then showing your child how his pee changed the water color. Kids love color and this is a neat way to make them feel cool!
• How about having a reward system. You can use a potty training chart for your child. Every time your child successfully completes a toilet session, you can put a sticker for the child on the chart. In fact, take your child to the chart and get them to put their own sticker themselves, they really love this. You could also give them a more tangible reward, like their favorite juice (This works in your benefit as well by allowing them to urinate more frequently.) or perhaps a salty snack or even a chocolate, as these would require your child to drink more water, again adding to your benefit.
• You could get a bunch of cartoon printed underwear. This helps by creating the desire to wear the underpants more than the diaper.




• Keep a favorite toy in the bathroom and motivate them by allowing playtime only during potty time.
• For poo sessions, you could have a funny face making contest.
• Glorify the “flushing of the toilet” and make up some story that goes with it, so that your child would want to flush the toilet, but only after he makes a pee or poo. For eg: You could say that every time we flush the toilet we are filling water into the little dam where the froggies live so that they can play nicely – Use your imagination, you can really make this one work.
• Keep a storybook in the loo, and read it aloud to the child while they are busy making a pee or poo.
• Praise them, give them super hero names and associate the baby potty training to their favorite super hero.
• Try to make the bathroom appealing by decorating with posters, pictures, etc.
• Let them play target practice… You can get some potty toys to help in this regards, or just use a cheap substitute like a puffy crisp eg: Cheetos.
• The lists are endless… the point is to take every situation and turn it around into a fun activity.

By making the entire process fun, you help achieve a few things: You remove your frustration; you motivate the child to learn and want to go to the potty as opposed to just doing a job in the diaper; you build your child’s self confidence and above all, you have fun!

I hope this article provides some helps you in making your baby potty training an easier task. Good Luck!

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Are you frustrated? Don’t know what to do? Perhaps you just want to learn more about effective baby potty training??? Then you have come to the right place!

If you are reading this, then perhaps you are in a similar problem that mosts parents face…Baby Potty Training. While most people take this as a great challenge, if not, perhaps, a great pain in the but (No pun intended ), then that there would be your first problem. Baby potty training does not have to be as challenging as people make it out to be, In fact, it should be fun and rewarding, both for you and your child. And how is all of this possible??

Simple – A mindset change!

Yes, granted – there are other resources that you will need in this respect to be fully able to complete the baby potty training with ease, but the first and foremost thing, is mindset. I will help you by showing you where to find the necessary resources and I will help with the basics by means of posts here on  on my blog site, but we all have to start somewhere… and this is it…

Repeat after me: Baby potty training is Easy, Baby potty training is fun.

Believe in it! Now – More about baby potty training itself. The greatest thing that I have come accross in my experience, is that you should not push your child if he or she is not ready. Some kids are ready at 24 months, some at 36 months, some earlier and others later. We are all different and we need to accept and understand this. If we fail now, dont give up, try again at a later stage.

So now that we have been through the first step, the next is consistency. Children in general seem to cope best by means of routine. that being said, we need to ‘create’ situations for them in order to potty train them. We need to give them more fluid intake, bit by force, but rather by need, for eg: we could give them a salty cracker whne they want a snack so that they would be forced to drink fluids thereafter, or perhaps (and this is another point I will bring up later), as a reward for a good session, give them a bottle of their favourite drink. The more fluid they consume, the more oppertunintes they get to train, and the more opportunities they get to train, the more routine mental enforcement is taking place… This will lead to the training becoming fixed… you know the old saying: “try, try again!”

Another thing to keep in mind is Rewards. This is a great motivator for kids and this will help strengthen training as well as make the entire baby potty training fun. And fun is good, for you to keep you sanity and for your child. Imagine a child that thinks this is a frustrating chore without fun, do you think they are going to want to learn??? So keep it as fun as possible, reward them by means of their favourite food and drink item, reward charts (these work great – I will post some on my blog later on), toys, etc! Remember at this age your chile loves to please you as parents, therefore use this to your advantage!

Some donts for you to be aware of: Do not show or take out your frustrations/anger at your child. Rather, should he or she sould make a mistake (and trust me, there are going to be some, its part of the learinig process)  then, show your disapproval at the actual mess by means of body language and facial expressions, but at the same time give your child and approval for trying.

Also, dont forget to communicate and show praise for even the smallest of steps in the training process, because its this affirmation that the child acknowledges and recognises and helps in getting your child to complete his or her potty training

The possibilities of training your child in as little as 24hrs are not far fetched. Some can do in 2-3 days while others may take up to a week. We need to accept and undestand that everybody is different and circumstances surrounding us, our children as well as the actual baby potty training can affect the timeframe it takes. But to sucessfully complete this, you need to give comittment and consistency, even if it means taking a few days off work, or letting the child miss a few days of creche, then so be it! This way you will see that your child turns these comittemnt and consistency into results!

I hope this article has been of value to you. Good luck to your and your child in potty training.

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