Potty Training
- Don’t get hung up on a timeline for potty training. As parents of older children will tell you, every child gets potty trained eventually. It’s better to follow your child’s timeline rather than your own.
- Get a child-size potty chair to place next to the toilet. Bring your child in with you when you go to the bathroom. Show your child her potty chair—she will soon want to “go potty” like mom or dad when she sees you do it.
- Take your child shopping for “big kid” underwear. This is usually another sign of growing up that your child can take pride in.
- Expect a lot of accidents. Children don’t go from diapers to being perfectly potty trained within a short time. The process can take a while and be messy, so be patient when accidents happen.
- Praise your child when he is successful. Downplay the accidents.
Bed-Wetting
- Children will often not be potty trained to sleep through the night for one to three years after they are potty trained during the day. Almost 1 out of 10 8-year-olds still wet the bed.
- Reassure your child when she wets the bed. Don’t scold her—she can’t help it. Bed-wetting is a biological function, not something she does on purpose.
- Have your child help you change the sheets. Make it an activity you do together.
- Protect the mattress with a plastic cover.
- For some children, cutting down on drinking liquids after dinner helps.
bed wetting is a very big issue in my house. i have tryed so many ways to help, suport, teach and displine my child in any way. i am at my last string i do not know what to do. i lost this battle.
hang in there, eventually your child will be able to have bladder control… it is very important to show your child that he is loved even when he is not perfect…
Hi first time mommy ….and learning as i go :-) I’m sooo happy to say my 2yr old son is potty train but yes he has his accidents at night. What I do to avoid late night wetting i stop giving him juice 1-2 hours before bedtime. It helps if you have one of those hospital mat on his or hers bed. Most kids are different they’ll wake up when the have to pee or not but its OK remember her little people it happens. Just tell them its OK next time you have to pee in the bathroom. Make them understand its nasty to pee on them self but don’t be too harsh.
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It maybe a magnesium deficency my child contunued to wet the bed and had bad leg cramp. I gave him leg cramp pills (they incldue magnesium) and the bed wetting went away…. Good luck to you…
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