Mastering a pot - difficult, but very important stage of growing of the kid. In order that the child could learn quickly and correctly to use a pot, parents, first of all, need to learn to correlate possibilities of the child to his age correctly.
At what age it is recommended to accustom the child to a pot?
Among parents there is an opinion that it is necessary to accustom the child to a pot as soon as he begins to sit, and it approximately in 6-8 months. This approach in a root is not right as approximately in 1 year and 3 months the child only begins to realize and feel fullness of a bladder. Therefore all attempts to accustom the child can be useless earlier.
Some parents manage to accustom the child earlier. It is connected with the fact that children develop differently, and some kids can start going consciously to a pot earlier. But most often at early schooling the child uses a pot unconsciously, and in process of growing he can unexpectedly "forget" how and when it needs to be done. Doctor Komarovsky famous to all considers that up to 18 months to you it is not necessary even to try to teach to use the child a pot to avoid formation at the kid of unnecessary reflexes.
Steady skills of formation of control of urination are formed at the kid in 22-30 months. This period, according to Komarovsky, also is optimum for schooling to a pot.
The main signs that the child is ready to use of a pot
Before beginning to accustom the kid to a pot, it is necessary to make sure that his level of development allows to make it. Treat the main signs of readiness for training:
- Age of the child (he has to be more senior than 15-18 months);
- The child begins to control the bladder (during a daytime sleep and 2 hours after it a diaper or pants of the kid remain dry);
- The child begins to feel in advance that he wants to empty intestines (for example, calms down and looks concentrated);
- The kid is capable to understand and carry out simple instructions (for example, to carry something or to bring);
- The kid has skills of elementary self-service (can dress and take off shorts, panties) and is ready to perform these operations at the request of adults;
- The child can quietly sit in place about 10 minutes;
- The child knows the name of parts ate and can show them.
If the kid has no above-mentioned signs, then to accustom to a pot him early.
The main recommendations about schooling to a pot
Before training in parents it is worth understanding that all children are individual, and what worked with one child, does not work with another at all. But there are recommendations developed by psychologists and pediatricians, following whom it is possible to accustom the child to a pot successfully:
- To pick up comfortable clothes which the child will be able independently to take off. It have to be shorts and panties without difficult fasteners and buttons that the kid, at need emergence, itself could pull together them.
- Beautiful, but convenient pot. The children's pot has to attract of the kid interest, but not fear and discomfort. It is possible to go to shop together with the child and to choose a pot which will be pleasant to it. On it favourite heroes or animals of the kid can be represented.
- To allow the child to choose the place suitable in his opinion for toilet affairs. You should not force the kid to sit down on a pot only in a bathroom or in a toilet. Such requirements it is possible to beat off desire at the kid to use a pot. Also you should not forbid it during "sit-round gathering" on a pot to play or thumb through books.
- To give timely and clear instructions. During schooling to a pot it is necessary to remind a thicket to the child for what and as it is necessary to use it. At the same time it is possible to use for demonstration of a toy.
- To watch closely signals. Each child, before descending in a toilet, makes characteristic actions, for example, fades or makes an effort. Having noticed these signals, it is important to seat as soon as possible the kid on a pot.
- To ask the child to report as often as possible that he wants in a toilet.
It is also important to remember and motivation. You should not abuse the child for ""wet trousers"". Much more effectively the child will be accustomed to a pot if it it is constant to praise and admire its success. And any threats and manipulations can not only spoil the child parental relations, but also to become the reason of development of many psychological problems in the child.