Stress-Free Potty Training, 2nd Edition

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Determining Readiness

 

Potty training is a process without an exactly defined beginning. It starts long before your child is actually attempting to go on the potty and includes a variety of motor skills, understanding, and interest. Your child’s readiness forms the basis for those potty-related skills that will be learned during the training process: knowing and telling you when he has to go, stopping what he’s doing to go, wiping, flushing and washing hands.

Determining the appropriate time in your child’s life to begin teaching potty-training skills is key to your success, but it is also a very subjective determination. For many parents, ...