Posted by: drmolly in potty training on
Jan 17, 2010
Most often, parents initiate potty training when they feel the child is ready and the looming specter of preschool entry is frequently the driving force behind the timing.
When I was a kid, cloth diapers were the only option and potty training around age 2 was quite common. Parents would initiate it and toddlers would "get it" because they had spent their lives in wet and dirty diapers with no super-absorbent lining to dull the sensation.
Posted by: drmolly in potty training on
Jan 17, 2010
Once your child has shown the physical, cognitive and emotional signs that she is ready to potty train it's time to assess if you - the parent or caregiver - are ready, too. Assuming you are not in the midst of a very stressful time, about to move or have a new baby or the like, you can begin the process of potty training with your child.
Child-led potty training was popularized by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, a fantastic pediatrician who wrote the
Posted by: drmolly in potty training on
Jan 17, 2010
Getting ready to potty train your toddler is one of the most anxious times for a parent. Everyone knows that if you do it too soon, too late, too relaxed, too harshly, too whatever you will lose your window of opportunity and you and your child will battle for months to get it done in time for preschool.
The truth is that potty training for most kids goes pretty smoothly and if parents look for the signs of readiness before starting, it can
Most kids finish up potty training by about 3 years of age. Nighttime dryness may take much longer to achieve, but daytime accidents should be few and far between.
This week I saw a 6-year-old girl in the office who had been having daytime urine accidents on a regular basis for a couple of years. Her family had moved into a new house just before the accidents started and she had started attending a new preschool, too. Her parents assumed
Every fall I have several children between the ages of 5 and 8 years old who come in because they are peeing all the time. The parents report the child will feel like he has to go every 10 or 15 minutes all day long and often will only have a little bit of urine each time. The typical child will still be sleeping all night but will start going very frequently as soon as he wakens and not stop until bedtime. It can be very disruptive to the
Once your child has moved beyond the earliest time of food introduction, the next hurdle in the world of poop is potty training. Potty training is a time when children learn to hold in their poop at times and release it at others, so it's no small wonder that sometimes this process goes awry.
A variety of things can go wrong when a child is learning to poop on the potty. Some children may like the power of withholding stool because it so
