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 telltale signs that your child is ready to be potty trained, you can begin the process. In terms of age, normally children between eighteen and twenty-four months are ready to learn. It may happen that you try to potty train your child when he is even less than eighteen months old and can respond to training, that’s great. On the other hand, if your baby boy or girl doesn’t seem too interested in learning while the neighborhood kids are starting to pick up basic potty skills, there’s no need to panic. Both situations are perfectly natural. Age is a criterion that varies with the child. Talk to the pediatrician and the young parents in the neighborhood. You’re sure to get important pointers on what to do and what to avoid by deciding the right time to start potty training your child.
Remember that you are not the first or the last parent to go through the process of potty training your little bundle of joy. The whole experience will be sometimes exasperating and sometimes fun, but never boring and in the end you will have imparted to her child a healthy and hygienic lifestyle habit that will always be of great use to him or her. He will get a sense of gratification and many memories from those three to six months that he can always look back on with a smile.
Your child will be ready for the potty training exercise once he begins to communicate that he has to go to the bathroom. It could be an expression on her face or the fact that she comes over and stands near you, if you notice that these actions are related to the need to use the potty then it’s time to prepare a training program. Most of the time, children first communicate after soiling their diapers and then, as they learn to control their bowels over a period of time, they try to let the parents know they have to go. You can try to speed up the process by talking to them; Although children may not be able to speak for themselves, they have a remarkable facility for understanding language and the meaning of words.
