There are quite a few mistakes that occur during the Baby Potty Training process. Most of the times, it’s these mistakes that contribute to a rather frustrating experience. In order to prevent the woes that people end up experience because of their inexperience with baby potty training, it is imperative that parents recognize them and steer clear of them. Here are a few of them that come to mind:

• ·         Punishing, scolding, yelling or acting negatively towards your child when they have an “accident”. These accidents are part of the training process, and you as a parent need to understand and accept this. The quicker you can grasp this concept, the less frustrated you will be. Also, positive reinforcement only helps the child learn faster, so don’t be negative towards the child; otherwise… this will end up being a long, painful, frustrating and emotionally challenge journey!
• ·         Going into the Baby Potty Training while being overly optimistic. The reason that this can become an issue is if things don’t work out the way you want it to. Rather go with a reasonably realistic perception. That way if you encounter issues, it will be part of the training in terms of mindset, and if you finish sooner, then Hooray – That’s a bonus. A wise man once told me – Always anticipate the unexpected. It is not uncommon for baby potty training to take up to a few weeks, even sometimes a couple of months. Like I said before, everyone is different.
• ·         Forcing the child into a baby potty training program, especially when the child shows a lack of interest. Humans are willful creatures, and I’m sure you guessed it by now – Your child is no alien! Don’t force or nag the issue, it does not work. Think back to when you were a kid, when your parents nagged and nagged, did it get anywhere? Did you respond in a timely manner? or did you just rebelled?? When they are ready, everything will fall into place.
• ·         Textbook approach, down to the letter T, for each and every child. You need to realize and understand that all kids are different. What appeals to one, might not necessarily appeal to another. For my one kid, tangible rewards worked wonders, eg: Potty Training Chart, while the other had no interest in this and this method did not work at all, rather verbal communication and constrain praise helped. You need to be able to tell when one method is not working and realize it’s time to try another. Baby potty training is not an exact science, rather it’s an art.




• ·         Starting baby potty training to early. This seems to be the biggest problem… What’s the rush here folks? I’ve heard insane stories of kids being trained as early as 4 months. Baby potty training is a 2 way street. Your child needs to be at somewhat of an understanding age. You need to wait until your child is ready – Don’t Rush!
• ·         Baby Potty Training and Bedwetting are not the same. A lot of folks confuse the two. Rather they are 2 separate processes altogether. Being potty trained during the day, while wetting the bed at night, does not in any way mean that the baby potty training process was a failure. You need to realize this and deal with the bed wetting in its own way.
• ·         Assuming that your child will be trained in one day and will successfully complete and understand, not to mention, be trained in all the different aspects of baby potty training. Making a pee/pooh in the toilet; having no accidents; using public facilities; travelling after being potty trained; etc. These are a few aspects that altogether make up the baby potty training. Think of each of these as milestones and celebrate each one with your child.
• ·         Starting the entire baby potty training at the wrong time. Situations like stress, moving, going on holiday, starting crèche, etc can call attribute to it being the wrong time. Make sure things are calm and there are no issues before embarking on this process.
• ·         Sometimes the consensus is that we should start the entire potty training process by putting our kids into underwear immediately. This is a big NO-NO. You need to be at the stage where you kid can pee or pooh at least half the time in the toilet without accidents, before making the switch. You should move from diapers, to training pants, and then finally to underpants. A good saying that comes to mind to put this point into perspective is from the movie Karate Kid. Mr. Miyage says: “First learn stand, then learn fly”.

These are a few of the mistakes that come to mind. As you can see, most of these mistakes are timing related, lack of positive attitude, bad timing, and overly optimistic expectations.

Avoiding these issue, will no doubt allow you and your child to have a wonderful baby potty training experience.

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