HI --

There are LOTS of differing ideas about toilet training.

With my kids I waited for warm weather (age 2 3/4) and then put them in
long t-shirts and NOTHING else. Quite bare-bottomed. We spent a lot of
time outside or on the hardwood playroom floor. After about 3-4 days
(depending on which child) my boys got the connection between needing to
go and going. From then on we used underpants during the day, never
anything else except during long car trips or airplane flights when we
knew they'd be trapped in a seatbelt longer than they could wait. Night
training took longer, since that's hormonal and not under the child's
conscious control.

Do count on some time when you have to tell them to try every time
before you leave the house, leave school, leave anywhere there's a
toilet, since forethought isn't isn't a common trait for preschoolers,
nor is enormous bladders!

Another thing we did that was fun was have "pee pee attacks" where
several boys (all the young cousins) peed at the same time into the same
toilet. It made the experience fun and social, and also improved their
aim (since urine on the floor or seat meant that the "attack" would
cease for the day.)

I hope these ideas help,
--Beth Kevles

http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic
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