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.
