Toilet training can be one of the most challenging times parents have with their toddlers. In this article, I would like to share with you three great potty training tips so you will find the experience less stressful for yourself and your child.

1) To ensure a pleasant and successful training, make sure that your child is ready. This is the most crucial of all potty training tips. The worst thing you can do is to push your toddler into it when they are not ready. You will be wasting your time with something which your child is not ready for…yet. Observe and keep a close eye on your child to see if he or she shows any cues of giving up diapers. Some of the signs your child my exhibit include: starting to show interest in going to the toilet and is able to tell you that his or her diaper is wet. Some will even express to you that they feel very uncomfortable with wet diapers on.

2) Stay consistent once you begin potty training with your child. Do not switch between having diapers and not having them, especially when you have to run an errand. When you are not consistent with your child, he or she will get the idea that it is alright to do things the wrong way. The child will also be confused as to what is expected of him or her. Have your child go potty first before leaving the house for any outing. You do not want to send mixed message to your child. Training your kid to go potty will not take long as long as you stay consistent. You will find your kid trained in no time.

3) Potty training can sometimes be difficult and frustrating for both you and your child. Where possible, be creative and make the experience of toilet training fun. Your toddler will rely very much on your patience to make it through this experience. One of the potty training tips meant to create fun during training is to use a potty training doll. It is a doll which drinks and wets itself; it can be used to help make toilet training fun and easy by means of demonstrating the process. Remember not to yell at your child if he or she makes a mistake. Always keep in mind that each time your child wet his or her pants, your child is doing his or her best to get the hang going potty. Be patient and encourage your toddler each time he or she makes it to the potty on time, and you will realize that very soon your toddler will be out of diapers.

I hope these three potty training tips will help you and your toddler to have a more pleasant experience.
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Potty training any toddler requires an infinite amount of patience. Potty training Twin girls is beyond anyone’s patience!

Our girls have just turned 27 months and have started the potty training phase.

I’m told by the experts, (Other Mums and Dads who have already been through the potty and toilet training phase,) that girls are generally cleaner than boys and normally quicker to get out of nappies.

Our Twin daughters are no exception to the rule and are already starting to feel uncomfortable in wet nappies and nine times out of ten will now tell you when they need to go to the toilet.

This can bring hilarious results when it just happens to be at exactly the same time as your twin sister and they turn what should be a calm learning curve into a full on fight for the red potty and race from the garden into the house to reach the red potty first pulling their trousers and pull ups down as they’re running and inevitably ending up in a heap on the floor on top of each other.

Our mistake was to have purchased the first potty (A light cream coloured one) early on as a toilet training set before we had learned that everything you buy for twins has to be brought in stereo and identical so as not to cause fights.

After searching high and low for another cream coloured potty to match the original one we settled for a cheap red potty which has obviously become the favourite potty and now we can’t find another cheap red one to match that one!

Anyway we are persevering and the highlight of the month was when Laura had managed to do her first pooh in a potty and proudly displayed it to the whole family one by one whilst we all applauded, praising her on her achievement and rejoicing in the knowledge that we had passed the first hurdle when Rebeca swiftly followed suit.

My wife did draw the line however when I rushed to get my digital camera to take a photo of the first pooh in the potty thinking it would be a great photo to keep for when they brought there first boyfriends home!

Sometimes you mums just don’t have a sense of humour.
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