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Jun 2004
The Festival State
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regardless of how many times per day, you DD requests to go to the loo, you could experiment with "timed toileting". This can be as minimal, as asking your dd to go sit on potty/loo BEFORE and AFTER her bath. BEFORE and AFTER leaving the house. (giving her potty-tunities).
or i have heard of people taking it further, e.g asking their child to go sit on potty/loo every two hours.
Going to the loo, recognising when your bladder is full, is a skill that a child has to learn. To know the signs of their body, what it means, how long they have before it's "oops, should have gone earlier". This takes time and practice. Stuff we adults take for granted.
My dd, when first tt-ing, had trouble with the timing of it all. So wherever we went, i carried a Potette in my bag (light, foldable potty) for the times when she was BUSTING and we coudln't get to the nearest public toilet, in time. And in the car, i had a BOON potty in the boot - they are a very wide and low potty, won't tip over - so even though she got a potty-tunity BEFORE we left home, sometimes, 5 mins into a car journey, she would need to go, and because she learnt that i would stop the car immed, get out the potty and put her on it, we didn't have accidents in the car. She knew i dropped everything, to get her onto a potty, as soon as she said she needed it. So we developed trust about it. It was an intensive month, but at the end, she was both day and night trained.
We also used a storybook, about a girl toddler teaching her teddy how to "go potty".
Used lots of songs, to celebrate ANY wins - i felt like a cheerleader, ha ha.
got heaps of tips from teh tribal baby website - even though the tips were for EC-ing babies, i used many of their strategies to toilet train a 2.5yr old child. At the time i had no clue what i was doing, so was looking for helpful tips. We lived in a rental with WHITE CARPET so i was very anxious to avoid accidents.
Bought cloth training pants too (after the only accidents happening were wee ones), which "caught" accidents well (as long as you change them quick smart, as soon as accidnet occurs). The cloth pants were good, because the child FEELS they are wet, and don't like that, so it makes them aware of when they are wet.
A brollysheet for the bed, was excellent too. Much less fuss when you have to clean up a night time accident.
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