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  • Motivating Kids: Sticker Charts Revisited

    Your well-meaning relatives suggest a sticker chart. What they might neglect to tell you -- or might be shocked to discover themselves -- is that rewards can backfire some children.

  • Potty Training: Pee, Poo, the Toddler and You

    Do you feel like you're getting bombarded by toilet-training advice? What happens when that information conflicts with itself? We've made sense of the recent research for you!

  • Little Looster Potty Training Step Stool

    Reviewer's Name: 
    thebusymom

    The Little Looster potty step stool is a potty training essential in our house! It never needs to be moved around the bathroom (like other potty stools and boosters).

    Rating: 
    6 - Highly recommend
    Product Link: 
    Little Looster Booster Potty Step Stool

  • Potty Training with Cloth Diapers

    Potty training is something that every child will encounter. When cloth diapering the transition to regular underwear is a bit more natural.

  • Cloth Diapers Problems

    Cloth diapering is not without problems. Stains, repelling liquid, and diaper stink are issues that a cloth diapering household will likely encounter at least once.

  • Let's Get This Potty Started!

    An important developmental step for every child is potty training. Most children begin using
    the toilet as toddlers, usually between 18 months and 3 years old.

  • "Grosser Than Gross"

    Before I had my first child, one of my biggest fears was taking him to the bathroom at a sporting event. While other men worried about midnight feedings and dropping a baby on his head, I fretted over a trip to one of the satellite offices of Germ Industries.

  • Potty Trained or Parent Trained?

    Children consistently prove to us that ultimately their bodies are within their control. We can lead them to a potty but we really can't make them go. So the choice is yours. How much time, attention, effort, and emotion do you want to invest in this? your choice is whether to give encouragement or try to control the child.

  • Should I Punish My Child for Potty Accidents?

    QUESTION

    Dear Dr. Laura,
    My daughter is about to turn three. She has been potty trained for several months, but lately she has started going through phases of having "accidents" fairly regularly. She will pee or poop wherever she feels like it a few times a day. We are very frustrated by this, because we know she knows how to recognize her need and use the potty.

  • Nighttime Toilet Training

    I have a six-year-old daughter. She is using the toilet during the day but soaking a Pull-Up® at night. We limit fluids after dinner, but that doesn't help. We've even tried bribing her with girl scout camp. She says she just doesn't feel like she has to go when sleeping. I can sense she is frustrated.

  • Toilet Training Advice

    I believe that the best advice on toilet training is that if the child is ready, it happens very easily. If not, a power struggle often ensues, since you can lead a child to the potty but you can't make him go. And we all know that no one wins a parent-child power struggle.

  • Cloth Diapers Problems

    Cloth diapering is not without problems. Stains, repelling liquid, and diaper stink are issues that a cloth diapering household will likely encounter at least once.

  • Getting Ready for Potty Training

    by Alan Greene, MD, FAAP

    Most children are ready to tackle the challenge of potty use somewhere between age 2 and shortly after their third birthday, with boys generally at the latter end of this range. Letting you know when their diapers are dirty is an early sign of readiness. When they start to let you know just before they need to go, it is time to begin. Here are some suggestions for easing the transition from diaper to potty:

  • Potty Training with Cloth Diapers

    Potty training is something that every child will encounter. When cloth diapering the transition to regular underwear is a bit more natural.

  • Quick Facts About Potty Training

    The perfect age to begin potty training is different for every child. Your child's best starting age could be anywhere from eighteen to thirty-two months. Pre-potty training preparation can begin when a child is as young as ten months.

  • Toilet Teaching: The True/False Quiz

    For many parents potty training or toilet teaching, as it is now termed, is a challenging and sometimes frustrating parental responsibility. You are ready for your child to be out of diapers, but you wonder, is she?

  • Get Ready! Get Set! Go!

    If your child is near or has passed his first birthday, you can begin incorporating pre-potty training ideas into his life. They are simple things that will lay the groundwork for potty training and will make the process much easier when you're ready to begin.

  • Signs Your Child Might Be Ready for Toilet Training

    The simple truth about toilet training is that if the child is ready, it happens very easily. If not, a power struggle often ensues -- and we all know that no one wins a parent-child power struggle. Bottom Line: Don't let toilet training become a struggle.

  • Lack of Progress in Toilet Training

    Throughout the process of toilet training there are periods of highs and lows, just as with learning any new skill. New skills to learn associated with toilet training include:

  • Little Looster Potty Training Step Stool

    Reviewer's Name: 
    thebusymom

    The Little Looster potty step stool is a potty training essential in our house! It never needs to be moved around the bathroom (like other potty stools and boosters).

    Rating: 
    6 - Highly recommend
    Product Link: 
    Little Looster Booster Potty Step Stool