Your Child Is Ready To Be Provided With Toilet Training

Teaching children to use their own toilet or toilet training is very important. But keep in mind that before deciding to provide toilet training, you must know the readiness of the Little One. Toilet training is a process when children learn to urinate (BAK) and defecate (BAB) in the toilet like an adult. At this stage, children are taught to no longer pass urine and feces in diapers. The ability to use the toilet is also useful for knowing whether your child is growing and developing normally or not.

How to Know Your Child Is Ready to Live Toilet Training

Each child has different developments, including their ability to start toilet training. Generally, children are ready to undergo toilet training at the age of 1 year 6 months, but most children are ready to start at the age of 1 year 10 months to 2 years 6 months. Most children can use the toilet perfectly around the age of 3 years. To find out the initial sign of a child ready to be given toilet training is to look at his physical and emotional readiness. The signs that the child is physically ready is when he is able to control the urge to urinate and defecate. This rarely happens before the age of 1 year 6 months. You can find out this physical readiness if:

• Children show expression when holding urinating or defecating.
• Dry diapers when you wake up or after two hours of use.
• No bowel diapers at night.
• Defecation occurs at the same time every day or at unpredictable times.
• The child is able to take off and wear clothes and be able to communicate with you about using the toilet.

Unlike physical readiness, emotional readiness takes a long time. The following are signs that your child has reached emotional readiness.

• The child will tell you when the diaper is dirty and asks to be replaced with a new one.
• He prefers to wear underwear rather than diapers.
• Show interest when you use the bathroom.
• Tells you when he wants to poop.
• Enthusiastically following all the toilet training processes.

Even though they have shown physical and emotional readiness, it does not mean the child is ready to be given toilet training. There are some children who are not ready to do it, especially if they are at the stage when the word 'no' is the main response for each request. The best step is to consult a doctor or share experiences with parents or friends who have experienced it. Avoid forcing your will when your child is not ready to do it. It can trigger stress that can slow down his readiness to remove diapers. You will also feel frustrated if you insist on giving toilet training to children who are not ready.

How to guide children during toilet training?

The initial steps that you must take to support the toilet training process for children include:

• Introduce children to the toilet.

Begin to explain the use of toilets for urinating and defecating. Tell the child when he starts using the toilet, it means he has to take off his diaper and replace it with underwear. Explain also that the child can not urinate and defecate in diapers or underwear.

• Choose the chamber pot.

Use the potty or special toilet seat for children. You can put a potty in the bathroom so that Little One can get used to the toilet function. It can also be in the room or play area of ​​the Little One so that he can use it directly when urinating or defecating. You could tell him that while he was still a child, this chamber pot would be a place for urinating or defecating.

• Encourage children when you move on the toilet.

To facilitate the toilet training process, seeing activities directly on the toilet is very important. For example, you can invite your child when you want to use the toilet, even if you feel comfortable. Explain what you did at that time.

It's show time

Now is the time for you to get your child to urinate or defecate in the bathroom using a toilet or toilet seat. To simplify this process, wear clothes that are easily removed and worn by the child alone. Next, teach him the procedures for using the toilet, such as:

• Teach you how to sit properly when using the potty or toilet seat.
• After finished urinating or defecating, teach him to clean his genitals. For girls, teach to wash the genitals using the left hand starting from the front of the vagina, then to the anus. This aims to prevent the transfer of bacteria from the anus to the vagina.
• For boys, teach to direct his penis under the potty or toilet so that urine does not spray the front of the potty seat or toilet. Also teach your child to clean his penis with water after urinating.
• Children under 4-5 years old usually cannot clean their genitals properly, especially after bowel movements. At this time you can help clean it.
• Help the child to press the flush button on the toilet after urinating or defecating. If using a potty, take your child to see the process of removing urine or feces from the potty to the toilet. This is useful so that Little One knows where the last disposal of urine or feces is in the toilet.
• Afterwards, teach Little to wash your hands properly after using the toilet.

At this stage, try to often give your child praise. Praise every activity he succeeds to do to increase his confidence in the future. Remember during this process, never leave a child alone without supervision in the bathroom or toilet to avoid accidents, such as slipping or putting something dangerous in the mouth. Teaching children to use the toilet does need patience. Today he might want to follow all the toilet training processes, but that could be different the next day. In essence, do not force if the child does not want to do it. Be patient until the child really gets used without the diaper.