Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 1/11/2006 10:08:00 PM Author: Arkana Subject: First stop thinking of it as a dreaded t... First stop thinking of it as a dreaded thing. Your child will pick up on that. I'm not sure where the bottle thing comes into play here. While you are working on the potty issue, you will WANT to give your child lots of liquids during the day so that they will have many chances to use the toilet successfully. Yes, I am a mother. My child was potty trained at 20m, but it took quite a bit longer to stop the occasional night wetting because of night drinks. Until you can cut out the night drinks, be prepared for this. Night wet does not mean the child is failing at pottytraining in any way so don't let that discourage you. I would encourage using a rubber pad or blue pad for night wets instead of a diaper. Once you are ready to start your child on the potty, just stop the plastic diapers. Don't go back and forth between plastic diapers and underwear. Don't use pullups (child can't feel the wet), use cloth diapers if you must use anything, because then the child can feel the wet. If your child defecates during the nighttime then, for sanitary reasons, I'd have to relent on this suggestion just for nighttime.) 18mos+ is a developmentally appropriate time to start using the toilet for most children, some are d/a even earlier. As long as you are not forcing or shaming, its not going to hurt your child. I believe that going past 24mos or so in diapers conditions the (increasingly aware) child to depend on the diaper and makes it harder to potty train later. Name: Email: Subject

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