POTTY TRAINING YOUR KIDS

A lot has been said for the topic of potty training your child. Different books will give you different tips and guide on how to potty train your child. But the big question is does it really work for you?


I am a mother of two. Niki, my daughter is 3 years old and almost 3 months and my son Jacob is 1 year old and 3 months. As I write this blog, me and my daughter Niki is currently undergoing a big change in her milestone. We are on the process of getting rid of her diapers for good. For the longest time, I am thinking and searching for the most effective way of teaching Niki how to get comfortable with the 'comfort room'. I searched and surfed different websites, read articles and books discussing the same topic.

Some people will tell you that at 3 years old, my daughter should be potty trained already. And sometimes, I am panicking because of the expectations of other people from Niki. Sometime ago, I tried teaching her to sit on the toilet bowl with her own Spong Bob soft seat but few days after she will refused to be out of her diapers again, so we go back to square one. Frustrating for me. My sister in law even bought her a pink duck potty chair but she will just use it as a car or horse when playing.


Now, again, I started to introduce again potty training. But this time, I think we will be successful. What do I learned from all this? That you should never ever forced your kid to potty train because the time will come that they will be ready and when this time comes, you should be able to notice. Your own kid will give you the sign that she/he is ready to use the potty chair. I started by taking her to share the bathroom with me while taking a bath. I explain to her everything I do in the bathroom. We even have the same 'loofa/net' to use for our body. Hers is smaller, a miniature of mine. When she was used to this routine already, I asked her one time while we are in the mall if she would like me to buy her a potty chair but this time it would really be a chair that really looks like a toilet seat and not the pink duckie that she was not able to associate it with. Niki chose a pink toilet seat with green cover accent.

This is a big change for Niki. Merely 2 months ago when we started to take the diaper out of her system and we are successful. Though she is not yet consistent in using her own toilet seat, she somehow manage to be out of the diaper even when we are out of the house. The problem I am focusing now is to make her poop in her toilet seat. She is still not used to doing that. But I am positive that soon enough we will overcome this challenge.