Successful Potty Training
Knowing when, and how, to move out of nappies can be difficult. Successful Potty Training discusses all the options and helps you spot when your child is ready to start as well as decide on the right method for you both.Potty training is one of those first big hurdles for new parents. This practical guide answers all their questions:• When and how should it begin?• Is there a right or a wrong way to start?• What should you do if progress seems slow?• Tips for when you are out and about.• Where can you turn for help if things go wrong?
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Successful Potty Training
Simple Steps to Make Life Easier
Heather Welford
Thorsons/National Childbirth Trust Publishing
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published by Thorsons 1987
First published in collaboration with National Childbirth Trust Publishing 1998
© NCT Publishing 1998
Heather Welford asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Ebook Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN: 9780007388714 Version: 2016-09-30
Contents
1 What Do We Mean by Potty Training?
2 What Do Other Parents Do? â Four Approaches
4 A Suggested Programme of Training
5 Potties, Pants and the Naming of Parts
7 Out and About â Visits and Holidays During Training
8 When All Else Failed â Stories of Unexpected Success
9 How to Get Rid of Night-time Nappies
10 Special Situations â Twins, Children with Disabilities
11 Delays in Achieving Bladder and Bowel Control
About the National Childbirth Trust
Children, quite naturally, vary at the age and speed in which they achieve bladder and bowel control â in the same way that some children are slightly earlier than others in learning to read, swim or ride a bike. The secret is to encourage the child at his or her own pace â and in a style that is best suited to you as a parent. This book gives an excellent range of options based on the experiences of parents â with suggestions that are both easy to read and practical.
Despite a generally more relaxed approach today to potty training, parents can still feel under pressure from relations, friends and neighbours to conform to doing things in a certain way. It is easy to feel that you have failed when âgoalsâ are not achieved. Children too are watchful of the progress of their siblings and friends, particularly as they get older. This book will, I believe, reassure the reader that there is no one âright wayâ, yet will provide some general messages to assist in the potty training process.
As Director of ERIC, the Enuresis Resource and Information Centre, I get many calls from parents and grandparents who are anxious because their 4 or 5-year-olds are not yet dry at night. I try to reassure them that this is extremely common. Research shows that one in five 4-year-olds and one in six 5-year-olds have yet to achieve night-time control. Often parents feel that their child is the âonly one in the worldâ who is not yet dry and it is a great relief to hear that there are many others where this is the case.
It is easy to take continence for granted and to forget how many different skills are involved. The child must be aware of the need to go to the toilet and be able to âhold onâ until a toilet is found. Not least, children have to be able to read signs for public toilets. They must learn to open doors, remove clothing, start the stream voluntarily, use lavatory paper, flush the toilet and wash their hands. This book gives the reader a sound basis for understanding the potty training process and the pathway to the achievement of independent toiletting.
Penny Dobson
Director, Enuresis Resource and Information Centre
The Enuresis Resource and Information Centre (ERIC) is a national charity which provides advice, information and support to children, parents, young adults and professionals on the problem of nocturnal enuresis or bedwetting. ERIC has an information pack for parents on bedwetting, a range of literature and a mail-order selection of alarms and bedding. For further details, contact ERIC at:
34 Old School House
Britannia Road
Kingswood
Bristol BS15 8DB
T: 0117 960 3060
F: 0117 960 0401
I havenât followed the usual practice of calling children âheâ in this book. Here â in line with real life â a child is sometimes âheâ and sometimes âsheâ, and sometimes âheâ or âsheâ.
