Early and late potty training

Many doctors and psychologists will tell you that you do not want to teach your child to go to the bathroom early. They think that it is not conducive to helping the child when it comes to learning to go to the bathroom early. In fact, they feel that potty training early takes longer than potty training later in the game.

In other words, what they mean is that a toilet trained child at the age of four could take one day to do so, while a toilet trained child at age three could take three days to do so. and so on.

Now, I don’t know how true these numbers are or what their statistics are, but let’s look at the real facts versus how many days it takes to potty train.

Let’s say that at age four it takes you two days to potty train your child, while at age three it takes you ten days to potty train your child, which is an extreme difference. Psychologists will lead you to believe that it is better to potty train your child at age four because it requires less work. Well, as a parent, wouldn’t ten more days a year make more sense to you than waiting a year to save three days of work?

Psychologists do not understand the work involved in having to change diapers and underwear and clean dirty clothes on a daily basis.

I don’t know about you, but I would rather spend 15 days at the age of 2 and learn to go to the toilet than wait 2 years and spend 3 days at the age of 4.

Now when you mention early potty learning, most people are really thinking about starting potty learning from a year or earlier. Some cultures begin potty training at six weeks.

In my opinion, it is not a bad idea to introduce your child to the potty as soon as possible, even if it is six or seven months, do not be afraid to introduce the potty to your child.

Now that doesn’t mean taking your child in and telling him he has to go to the bathroom inside the toilet, but rather letting him sit on the potty so he gets used to being on the toilet.

What this does is, when you are ready to start potty training, you can essentially get rid of the resistance your child will have to potty. See, the problem most parents have with potty training is that they are putting too many variables into the equation. Variable one is the toilet or urinal. Variable two is no diapers. Variable three is potty training. Therefore, there are many things that you are asking the child to do at once.

What you want to do is start a little earlier. Start by introducing your child to the potty so he can sit up, even for five minutes several times a day. Just sit on the potty so they get used to it.

This sets the stage for when your expectations are for them to relieve themselves on the toilet. There will be less resistance that others will go through.

So in my opinion, potty training early is not something you do, but early introduction to potty training or potty training is a very good step to take.

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