What Age to Start Potty Training a Child
Children are known to control their bowels and bladder when they are truly, physically ready. It is good to remember that each child is different. Thus, it is better not to compare your child with anyone else’s in the neighborhood.
On the other hand, your child must be emotionally and physically ready when it comes to toilet training. You need to understand that your child may reach the age of twenty-two and thirty months. This is the right age to introduce your child to this kind of training.
Although toilet training may be a frustrating and long process, just remember that he or she should be ready enough at this phase of his or her life.
Before your child starts to use the toilet, take time to notice if he can already control his bladder muscles and bowel. He should also able to talk,
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Without being abused or punished, they are already learning the basic skills related to toilet training. Even before they are capable of walking, they are ready enough in training, using the toilet.
In the United States, the situation is entirely different wherein children wear diapers for two, three or four years. Based on a recent study, Afro-American parents are believed to have been training their children around eighteen months. On the other hand, Caucasian-American parents are training their children after twenty-five months.
By eighteen months, children were already out of their diapers and many of them do not master the basic skills in toilet training until almost three years old. It was also found out that half of the children population over thirty-two months does not stay dry throughout the day. This is a common trend that is observed in Europe.
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