Parents typically experience different emotional states including happiness, anger and sometimes frustration during their child’s potty training process. However, it is good to know that for the child, the feelings can be even stronger! If you learn to understand it, your road to successful potty training will be shorter.

For the child, this learning experience is a nightmare! Right at the moment they are having fun and enjoying themselves with their favorite toy, they have to deal with a process which is anything but enjoyable!

What Does The Child Believe?

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Potty training boys can be a challenge over girls, so it is important to be very patient with your young man and provide a great deal of encouragement. A child should never be pushed when it comes to potty training because it could easily backfire and take twice as long. Read More

Is you child potty trained but still wets the bed at night? Did you know that bedwetting is hereditary? So far we are lucky with our children since I had that problem as a child. So, okay, you are not the only one who does not know is possibly embarrassed by this truth. However, thankfully the bed wetting sleep disorder is curable and very rarely crosses the age of 10 years of age. In only about two percent of all the bed wetting sleep disorder cases, the patient continues this habit into adulthood. Read More

Editorial Comment: We have just finished potty training our son and are looking forward to the challenges of training our newborn in a few years. Parenting is not easy and knowing how difficult this task can be, so we will be devoting a few articles to potty training. Let us know if they are useful. For us, we used many of the techniques below. It is important not to get made or upset if the child has an accident. We also resorted to bribary along with encouragement. Either a gummy bear or a crabby patty gummy for a real good job! One thing that helped also was peer pressure. Our son really started making progress at the pre pre school he was going to. We built on that success at home by a lot of praise when he went as to what a big boy he was becomming. Julie

There comes a time in every family’s life when it is time to potty train. There are as many ways to go about this as there are families in the world. How you go about the process should be molded to fit the needs of your family and especially your toddler. In fact, it will probably seem as if everyone you know is trying to give you a potty training tip.

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