Get answers to all your potty training what-ifs, how-tos and now-whats.
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Top 5 Potty Training Tips
Heather Wittenberg
Potty training happens all sorts of ways, depending on your child’s personality. I’m in the process of potty training our fourth child, and I’m reminded how different each child has been at this stage. One was resistant until he was almost four, and one seemed to train herself overnight! So with all…
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5 Potty Training Mythbusters
Jen Singer
Whether you’re just starting potty training or you’re in the full swing of it, one thing is likely: Somebody has spread rumors to you. Call them potty training myths, these assertions of how potty training is supposed to go can make you wonder if your potty training plan has a few glitches. But before…
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Memorable Potty Training Moments
Dave Hagler
Time has a way of bringing out the humor in a situation. I laugh now at the time my car ran out of gas, in the days before cell phones, and I sat for hours waiting for help to arrive before finally walking several miles in the middle of the night to find a gas station. Potty training is the same way. …
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Transitioning to Underwear
By Katherine Bontrager
“We are currently at a standoff with our son,” says Shannan Boyer of Cincinnati, Ohio. “He’s successfully transitioned to underwear but is hesitant to fully let go of his [training pants].”
Recently Boyer and her husband thought the time was right to discontinue the use of training pants because their…
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Regression Is Normal!
By Katherine Bontrager
It’s one of the most frustrating aspects of potty training: Your toddler has been in underwear for weeks when suddenly he or she begins to have accidents. Your excitement at having successfully completed potty training gives way to dismay.
Robin Nolan’s son finished potty training at age 2 1/2 but…
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Potty Training Facts
Potty training, toilet training, toilet teaching or toilet learning are names frequently used to describe how kids learn to use the bathroom independently.
Here’s what you’ll see in a child who is potty trained:
Recognizes the need to go to the potty
Walks to the potty and undresses
Uses the…
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Getting to Underwear
There’s no official finish line for potty training. And no matter what you’ve read, there certainly isn’t a fast track to underwear! Your child sets the pace. And with patience, encouragement and your helpful coaching, potty training will one day just sort of trickle off (literally!).
You’ll start to…
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Accidents Happen
By Jenn Director Knudsen
Finally, your preschooler is a potty pro, wearing only underwear. But then – oh no! – your new baby is born, or your child starts a new preschool or he gets too distracted at play to stop for a toilet break. The result? Wet or dirty pants. Yet you thought your child was totally potty trained!
Don’t…
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Being a Good Coach
by Jan Faull M.Ed., Washington
Anyone who has ever played a sport—whether at school, a club or a game with friends— remembers that person who led them through the game with words of encouragement, advice on perfecting their technique, and a hand to help them up when they fell down.
These people are teachers of more than just sport…
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5 Tips for Surviving Potty Training
Jen Singer
I've been a Pull-Ups® Potty Training Partner for five years now, and during that time, I've confirmed one important hunch: potty training is the most labor intensive of your child's milestones. Don't you think?
It takes work to make potty training successful, but if you stick it out, you will reach…
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