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Get Kids Motivated

A child's conscious and successful effort to use the potty is an important milestone and signals a new level of physical, intellectual and emotional maturity. Children reach this milestone at different age, and there is no benefit in trying to rush them. For toilet teaching to be successful, your child must join in the process willingly - and that will happen, if you just let your child tell you when he is ready. Here are some ideas for smoothing the process.

● Shop for a potty seat and big-kid underwear together
● Resolve to focus only on your own child and to pay no attention to how your child's readiness compares with other children's
● Realize that toilet teaching is a collaborative effort and that you can never have the upper hand
● Understand that the process takes a while and that one or two successful attempts does not indicate that toilet teaching has been accomplished. Expect accidents and respond to them very matter-of-factly, not punitively

Keeping the potty clean

These parents have found some creative ways to make the potty seat a more desirable piece of equipment for themselves and their children

Line it with a coffee filter
I found a way to keep my child's potty chair clean with the help of disposable coffee filter. Line your child's potty with one. It makes clean up of bowel movements quick and easy
Kristina Brew, NY

Add Water
To make potty cleanup easier, I always keep about one inch of tab water inside the pot
Dr. Anna Neber, Colorado

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