STEP THREE TRYING- So now the main event, trying. This stage can take days, weeks or even months to master. Your little one knows all about the potty chair. Where it is and what it is used for. Now is the time to get them to try it. Just to sit on it. If they disagree with that, then don’t say another word about it. Back up, into the previous stage if need be.

Remember your child is really the one in charge, you don’t want to battle with them on this. Just keep talking and showing and let her get confident about using it. Try to get them to use the potty once a day. Maybe first thing in the morning or just before bath time.

Just before bath time, is a wonderful time to get them to try. Wait until they have been dry for about an hour. Then have them get undressed for the bath and have them sit and wait on the potty. Turn on the tub water, this can get the senses started. They will feel the need to pee.

You want to keep from making a HUGE celebration every time they go potty. This could set them back. DO praise the accomplishment and try not to call them a big kid, some children are not ready to be a big kid yet. You know your child best, use your own judgment.

Have them try once a day or as often as they like. After a few days of trying once a day, try to increase the visits. Every time they sit and try, does not have to be a successful visit. Increasing your visits will help set the stage for when they become more successful. This will help get them in the habit of visiting the potty.

Forming good habits require repetition. With enough repetition you can them form a habit. The more you do it after the habit is formed, the more reinforcement you give to that habit and the stronger it becomes.

Expect accidents to happen, don’t get mad, just clean up and continue on. Let them know, that it’s ok. When time goes by and he is emptying on a consistent basis, back off and let him remind himself. Let them decided when to go. If she’s always emptying her bladder she’ll never know the real feeling or urgency to go on her own.

During distracting play time your child can forget about using the potty and forget to listen to their potty senses. So taking potty brakes during busy playtime, are a good idea.

Something that is helpful for some parents and children is to have your child run around the house without a diaper or underpants, just be bare bottom. If you try this, you need to stay with them the whole time. This way you can watch for potty queues and help them rush to the potty. This will help them feel for their own potty queues. Your child with feel the urgency and they will be more apt to hold it since they don’t have anything to catch it. Some parents don’t like this because accidents can happen. Again use your own judgment. You know your child best.

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SHOWING is the second step to baby potty training. This step can sometimes overlap step one. Now is the time to acquire a potty chair. This can be a celebrating time or a laid back time. If your child loves to get presents or picking out things at the store then make it a celebration. Either wrap one up all pretty as a gift or let them pick one out. You know your child best, so you know what they would prefer.

If your child eases into everything slowly and you feel that going shopping or opening up a gift/present is too much. Then make it low key and just put a potty chair in the bathroom where they can find it on their own. Be sure to let them lead the way at first, you should not ask them to use it yet, unless they insist. We still need to do more showing first. Just explain to them, “this is your own potty to go pee or poop on.”

Leave toilet seat adapters, for after they have been using the potty chair on a regular basis. Sometimes the big potty is too high, sometimes it’s being used. Using the big potty can be too scary yet. Some kids like their new potty chair, they can sit on it with their clothes on or off. They can stand on it with the lid down and use it for a step stool. They can sit and read a book on it. It is all up to them. They should leave it in the bathroom, so they know that is its proper place.

Pull ups are a great thing for helping to potty train but they are not necessary. Your child can pull them up and down all by themselves. You can explain what the pull ups can do and they can take them off when they use the potty chair and pull them back up when they are done.

The best way of showing is to actually show them how to go potty. You be the role model. You use the potty in front of them. Not everyone is comfortable with someone watching them use the potty but this is the most valuable tool. They will really see, first hand what this is all about.

If you are just not comfortable about doing this, then don’t do it. They will sense your discomfort and associate it with using the potty and that will create hesitation for them. If you are comfortable with it, that is great, then do it, do it every chance you get! Children love to copy what we do. Tell them you have to go sit on the potty and ask them if they want to come with you. They can either watch you or they can sit on their potty.

This is the time to TELL and SHOW all of the steps. Explain out load everything you do. “First I pull down my pants, I sit down on the potty, I go potty, I wipe, I pull my pants back up, I flush the potty and wash my hands.” Some kids like to flush the potty for their parents and some like to wave and say goodbye, when the potty is flushing. Be careful flushing can be a scary thing for some children, so use your own judgment.

Siblings are great when it comes to the showing stage. I suggest all dads and older brothers to sit when they are showing boys how to use the potty. This also helps when they need to have a bowl movement. Little boys are not too good at aiming during the potty training process. You don’t want to be frustrated about them peeing all over the place, they will sense it and regress. Dads and brothers will need to show how they need to push their pee pee down so the pee goes into the potty and not spray up. NEVER FORCE YOUR CHILD, IT WILL BACKFIRE.

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