Toilet Training (part 1)
“I am a grown man with a university degree. I consider myself to be mature, well adjusted and able to exist adequately in our modern society . As such, I never would have believed the exhilaration and pride I experienced when my son did his first “slam dunk” in the potty” (a parent of a toddler)
Often times parents get in too much of a hurry to toilet train their child resulting in frustration on their part as well as their child.
Seldom is a child ready to begin toilet training before 18 months old and a significant percentage are still not ready at thirty months. The neural pathways and the designated muscular groups must be sufficiently developed to exercise the control necessary for toilet training.
Once these systems are sufficiently mature, the development is controlled by:
- the child’s will to comply
- his / her determination to defy
- the skill and cunning of the trainer
Many toilet training difficulties are really non-problems. Subsequent posts will outline a toilet training procedure that may be helpful.
What parents need most are ideas because with ideas we get options.Rick Harper has been providing ideas to parents for over 40 years.