Potty Training My Child - When Do I Start?

When do you start potty training your child? It is a question that
only you can answer. Once you know what to look for, the tell-tale
signs that your child is ready to learn how to use the potty you can
begin the process. In terms of age, usually children between the ages
of eighteen and twenty-four months are ready for learning. It may so
happen that you try to teach your child to use the potty when he is
even younger than eighteen months and he may respond to the training -
that's great. Conversely if your baby boy or girl does not seem too
interested in learning while kids in the neighborhood are beginning to
pick up basic potty training skills, there is no need to panic. Both
situations are perfectly natural. Age is a criterion that varies with
the child. Talk to the pediatrician and young parents in the
neighborhood. You will surely pick up important pointers on what to do
and what to eschew when deciding the right time to start potty
training your child.Remember that you are neither the first parent nor
the last one that has to go through the procedure of toilet training
your little bundle of joy. The whole experience will sometimes be
exasperating and sometimes fun but never dull and at the end of it all
you will have imparted to your child a healthy hygienic lifestyle
habit that will forever stand him or her in good stead. You will earn
a sense of gratification and lots of memories of those three to six
months that you can always look back upon with a smile.Your child will
be ready for the potty training exercise once it begins to communicate
that it has to go to the toilet. It could be an expression on its face
or the fact that it comes and stands near you, if you notice that
these actions are related with the need to using the potty then it's
time to prepare a training schedule. More often then not, children
will first communicate after soiling their diapers and then as they
learn to control the bowels for a period of time they try to inform
parents that they have to go. You can try to accelerate the process by
talking to them; although children may not be able to speak by
themselves, they have a remarkable facility for understanding language
and the meaning behind words.