First off, you need to decide on a date for the potty training process. You as well as your child need a couple of weeks to mentally prepare. Potty training will be going a lot smoother if you follow a couple of simple steps ahead of time.

1.) Get some books and/or videos on potty training and begin showing them to you child. The idea is, that your child sees other children going potty, which takes away the scary aspect. And after all, children learn by imitation now, don’t they?

2.) Get the child used to be in the bathroom. Let him see, you going to the toilet and let him flush, if he wants to. You can also hold story times in the bathroom. If he wants to, let him sit on the closed potty chair, but don’t force him to.

3.) Get rid of the super absorbent diapers and change your child more frequently. This procedure is to have him getting used to the feeling of being dry. You might want to start doing this 2-3 months before you start the actual training.

4.) Try to avoid using pull-up diapers. According to commercials on TV, they are designed to make potty training easier, but in fact, they confuse your child, by having them think, they are a big boy or girl, just because they can pull them up and down by themselves.

5.) Do not make jokes about your baby’s poopy diaper, consider instead to stop any reaction altogether. If your child realizes, that having a poopy diaper is funny, they may want to start pleasing you and keep having potty accidents in their diaper just to amuse you. By following those strategies in your pre potty training phase, you’ll be well on your way to successfully start the actual potty training session with you child.
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