Title: Potty Training Guidelines - Child Development Institute
Headings: Potty Training Guidelines
Potty Training Guidelines
By Elizabeth Pantley
Author of The No-Cry Potty Training Solution
Quick Facts About Potty Training
The Potty Training Readiness Quiz
Potty Training – Get Ready, Get Set, Go!
Get Set
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Content: process will be. The age that a child masters toileting has absolutely no correlation to future abilities or intelligence. There isn’t only one right way to potty train – any approach you use can work – if you are pleasant, positive and patient. Nighttime dryness is achieved only when a child’s physiology supports this–you can’t rush it. A parent’s readiness to train is just as important as a child’s readiness to learn. Potty training need not be expensive. A potty chair, a dozen pairs of training pants and a relaxed and pleasant attitude are all that you really need. Anything else is truly optional. Most toddlers urinate four to eight times each day, usually about every two hours or so. Most toddlers have one or two bowel movements each day, some have three, and others skip a day or two in between movements.