Potty training boys and potty training girls can not be too dissimilar. It can be natural, easy, and peaceful. The first step is to know the facts.
- The perfect age to begin potty training is different for every child. Your child's best starting age could be anywhere from eighteen to thirty-two months. Pre-potty training preparation can begin when a child is as young as ten months.
- You can begin training at any age, but your child's biology, skills, and readiness will determine when he can take over his own toileting.
- Teaching your child how to use the toilet can, and should, be as natural as teaching him to build a block tower or use a spoon.
- No matter the age that toilet training begins, most children become physically capable of independent toileting between ages two and a half and four.
- It takes three to twelve months from the start of training to daytime toilet independence. The more readiness skills that a child possesses, the quicker the process will be.
- The age that a child masters toileting has absolutely no correlation to future abilities or intelligence.
- There isn’t only one right way to potty train – any approach you use can work - if you are pleasant, positive and patient.
- Nighttime dryness is achieved only when a child's physiology supports this--you can't rush it.
- A parent's readiness to train is just as important as a child's readiness to learn.
- Potty training need not be expensive. A potty chair, a dozen pairs of training pants and a relaxed and pleasant attitude are all that you really need. Anything else is truly optional.
- Most toddlers urinate four to eight times each day, usually about every two hours or so.
- Most toddlers have one or two bowel movements each day, some have three, and others skip a day or two in between movements. In general, each child has a regular pattern.
- More than 80 percent of children experience setbacks in toilet training. This means that what we call “setbacks” are really just the usual path to mastery of toileting.
- Ninety-eight percent of children are completely daytime independent by age four.
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By Joanna Cole. Sam doesn’t want to go to the potty until his dog shows him that the potty is A-OK!
By Karen Katz. This lift-the-flap book tells the story of a little girl who at first doesn’t feel ready for the potty, but with some encouragement from her mom, decides to use the potty and has great success.
Featuring simple words and an adorably cute potty training toddler, this humorous book is great for younger toddlers just beginning to learn about the potty.
By Alyssa Satin Capucilli. Available in editions for both girls and boys, this book is similar to A Potty for Me! It tells the story of a toddler who receives a potty chair as a gift and then must learn, through some trial and error, to pass from diapers to big girl/big boy pants.
By Taro Gomi. This book explains to toddlers that because all living creatures eat, they must poop. This story is simple enough for younger toddlers but is filled with enough interesting humor to appease parents and older toddlers.
By Julie Markes. This lift-the-flap book has a similar premise as Everyone Poops—that is, that all living creatures poop, that it’s a natural process. But at the heart of this story is a question, “Where’s the Poop?” so the focus is on where animals poop versus where humans must poop, in the potty.
By Elizabeth Verdick. Featuring colorful graphics and simple text, this book explains everything your toddler and you, as parent, need to know about potty training from start to flush.
By Samantha Berger. Yes, even pirates go potty. In the world of potty training books, this one’s a sure winner, telling a fun, humorous, and colorful story that introduces boy toddlers to the concept of potty training.
By Samantha Berger. This is the girl version of Pirate Potty. Like the one intended for boys, Princess Potty features the talk of true princesses to narrate your child’s potty training process, or words like “Farewell” to accompany poop down the toilet.
By Wendy Wax. Similar to Princess Potty and Pirate Potty, this book seeks to encourage toddlers to go potty by telling them of all the other cool people in the world who use the potty as well. Even Firefighters Go is filled with fun graphics and lots of humor.
