Potty Training Tips: How do you know your baby is ready to start potty training?

As a parent, especially as a mother, it can become one of the most difficult tasks on the floor to begin potty training your children. They just don’t know how to carry out this process. In fact, first-time parents are so nervous that they would rather buy endless packs of diapers for their children and put an end to their public embarrassment of learning how a ‘real’ potty training system works. However, the reality is that you have to start with training and learn to train sooner or later. The point here is that if your child isn’t potty trained at an earlier stage, he might actually become more reluctant to start potty training later on. Obviously, he can expect to spend more time and energy later on. This breeds more frustration and makes you believe that parenting is the hardest job on the planet.

You need to understand that children and all their developmental activities can be handled with ease, if you just pay attention to their growth and understand what the right time is. You don’t need any kind of parenting advice. All you need is a method to follow. The first step in this direction is knowing when to start potty training. If you know the time is right, you can always find the right method and start working on it. Every child is different and they would have many different ways of telling you about their peeing accidents.

No one can ‘define’ an age at which children should be potty trained. It would be kind of an injustice to children to have everyone start potty training without knowing if they are ready for it or not. Here are some tell-tale signs that will let you know your child is ready to be potty trained.

• Coordinated physical activity: can your child walk steadily now? If they do, then it’s time they were potty trained. This is not a good time to potty train your child when she can’t even walk or stand properly. This would only be wasting your efforts. If you have to pick them up and place them on the toilet seat from time to time, then you’re just not making your efforts count. Also, your child would become irritated and start to walk away from the process altogether. So make sure they are a bit more independent when it comes to muscle movements.
• Good amount of urine – If you have started to see your child let out a good amount of urine each time, then potty training can begin. This may be the reason why the diapers are now very dirty. It’s time to discard them and start training.
• Predictable voiding times – Many parents worry about when to start potty training their children. A good sign of this is to check whether or not your child has started to have a better bowel movement. His weather would also be more or less predictable now and you could judge it just as well.
• The dry period: If your child has dry periods for at least two hours straight and does not soil their diapers during naps, then they have started to develop better bladder control and can hold urine longer. This is the perfect cue that would tell you when he should start potty training.
• Calming Behavior – If your child has started to learn to sit in one place for at least 2-5 minutes before starting to move, they may become very cooperative during potty training. They can probably pull their pants up and down, and usually won’t resist anything new.
• Other behavior changes: Your child would not like dirty diapers anymore and this can work as a great motivation for them. Also, they would make a noise or do something to get your attention when you have a bowel movement or urination. This can include a growling sound, a squat, or something similar.
• Cognitive cues: Your child would now have a word for pee and poop. They might even start to show increased bladder control and generally start to “tell” you that they need to go.