[blParent] Toilet training

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			Go barefoot in your house, better to step on accidents with bare feet or so I think. 
Remember, you can't teach your kid to recogonize the brain telling them they need to go, they have to do that on their own. 
You will probably be able to tell when they need to go by their voice, how they talk how they behave, but again, they need to have the maturity to understand the signal then act on it. That isn't something you can teach. 
We always used a ring over the potty, the portable potty seats make me ill. Diapers don't phase me, nothing makes me want to toss cookies more then those portable potty seats. 
Also, if having your kid run around naked doesn't work for you, don't do it. Remember potty training isn't a competition. 
Also, there is a lot to be said for the switch going off. Mine all seemed to roll that way. 
I also noticed they all seemed to want and maybe need to have real good verbal skills before they got the potty figured out. 
I can remember pumping breast milk for my baby and my daughter saying "I pooped, when you're done pumping breast milk, can you change me please?" 
I thought "If you can string all those words together why can't you just go potty, but it doesn't seem to work that way. A few months later, she was using the potty. 

I also remember being in a public bathroom with one of my kids when they were new at the potty and them looking in a stall and saying "yuck, I don't like tis one" and then moving to te next stall. 
I couldn't see it, but I suspect someone didn't flush or the potty didn't flush. 
This really isn't worth stressing about. As with everything do what makes sense not necessarily what yo're told to do. 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: BlParent <blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Nadine Lattimore via BlParent
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 7:12 PM
To: sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
Cc: Nadine Lattimore <nadine.lattimore at gmail.com>; blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training

Hi Judy thanks for response. 

Yep all ready here has potty and seat for big toilet. Knows exactly what to do and reads through potty training theme book while sitting on potty. 

Possibly overthinking it re my blindness, but it can play such a subtle role in everyday life as a parent. Just wondering if anyone has any specific tips or tricks. Hoping I will be alerted to any accidents and like I said guide dog won’t find them first. 

Regards 
Nadine

> On 13 Feb 2022, at 19:48, sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Nadine,
> 
> I'm a grandma now, but we were very relaxed about potty training with both daughters, and they managed it in di"erent ways at different ages. We to ook our cues from them.
> 
> Some parents try to put kids on a potty schedule which works when they are truly ready, but sometimes, if the kids aren't ready, the parents have actually unknowingly scheduled themselves, and not the kids, into putting their kid on the toilet when they aren't really ready yet. They try to get kids trained before their systems are mature enough.
> 
> I had a niece who didn't "get it" until she was three. Our youngest daughter started "practicing" several months before she was consistently able to use the toilet, about the middle of her second year. A lot of this you play by ear with your kids. Watch for when they show an interest in the toilet. Get them one of their own they can sit on. Praise them for having a toilet just like mom and dad. It starts out being something they imitate and do just for fun, not knowing what it's really for, but they catch on when they're encouraged.
> 
> Our younger daughter wanted so badly to go to school like big sissy. She had her own little potty seat, and was wearing pull-ups to get the hang of how it is to wear underpants. I took advantage of her desire and told her that the school wouldn't allow her to go until she could potty all by herself. This was three months before her third birthday, and she was super-motivated, and was rady for preschool by her third birthday. The whole process is a series of steps forward and backward then forward. Reward the positive steps, and don't sweat the misses. It can be a slow process, and all depends on each kid.
> 
> Also look for some potty training tips online.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> judy
> "Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."
> Sent From The HIMS U2 Mini
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nadine Lattimore via BlParent  <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> To:  blparent at nfbnet.org
> CC: nadine.lattimore at gmail.com
> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022 7:07 am
> Subject: [blParent] Toilet training
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi there anyone care to share experiences of toilet training? No useful vision and a guide dog who I'm hoping won't get to accidents before I do. 
> Regards 
> Nadine
> 

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