Children and Potty Training:?
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Patience and dilagence on your part make sure you get him up to go before you go to bed if you go to bed fairly early set your alarm to get up around 1 am amnd have him get up to go he will get it eventually as long as his peditrician has found no other reason for this My daughter has a small bladder and this helped her tremendosly within 2 weeks we no longer had wet beds
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You should already be potty trained.... Just kidding. Getting a child familiar with the body should be done early.  I'd say about 12 months old.  Try to do all diaper changing in the potty room.
907060
I'm not germ-phobic; I think any vestiges of such a fear disappeared when I had a child.  Kids are incredibly tough, and as long as a place is reasonably clean, they're going to be fine.  I HAVE heard the idea that children are becoming more allergic to things like molds because their parents simply won't allow them to play outside in the dirt as much!  I do think that hand-washing is important, especially during flu season, and certainly when cooking, or dealing with an infant.  I believe it's like most things - excess in ANYTHING can be harmful, but all the things like hand sanitizers certainly have their place, especially in situations where there's no water available (car trip and dirty restrooms, for instance - yuck!)
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Just by the context of the text it should be obviously. "Wee" in America is more often associated toward children with urination, but it's still known as a measurement of size as well. It's not a term used, but only the dumb ones won't be able to match two-and-two.
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As far as the medicine goes, I would just let her drink a lot of juice, that usually loosens the stools.  Praise her for going potty in the toilet.  Make up a chart with a pic of a potty with like 5 boxes next to it.  When ever she goes potty in the toilet let her put a sticker in 1 of the boxes.  And when she gets all 5 boxes filled, let her pick out a prize.  You can buy dollar store prizes and put them in a box so she can see what she is 'working' for, or you can take her to the park or get icecream.  Whenever she doesn't use the toilet, put an 'x' thru 1 of her stickers and remind her what a big girl she will be when she goes potty and let her know when ever she gets a sticker she only needs __ more to get a prize!!  That should keep her motivated and focus on the positive outcome of being a 'big' girl.
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I'd say it was mental but some kids thinks they might miss something interesting if they spent too much time on the toilet. Some are even afraid that if they stay on the pot to long, something bad will happen to them. Don't dwell on it. Let it go. It's all over with.
936742
Bad, bad idea...\n\nPlease, don't make your kids wear diapers... what a strange idea!! Just do the extra stops every once in a while...
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I don't have any kids, but I have a big family with lots of small children. I know several different ways. My aunt told her son when he did tinkle to tell her next time that way he can use "the big boy potty". And her husband showed him how to tinkle like a man, but then showed him like a little boy would do it (sitting down). My other aunt got a potty that is seperate from the toilet that you'd use. And tell him how much fun it is to potty like a big boy and stuff like that and eventually after a few weeks he went alone, of course he was showed how to take his pants and they used pull ups and easy to remove pants while in the training stage...hope it helped....try parents.com they have many stories!
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Ok this made someone else laugh in here that I was offering advice to, so maybe it'll make you grin.\n   A friend of mine was potty training her son who was almost 3. She could get her son to go pee in the toilet, but when he had to poo he'd do it in the litter box like the cat did. Poor women thought she'd never break him of that.\n  My own kids.. kids' are something else lol. My 15 y/o is going blind so he's at the blind school all week and comes home on weekends. I always let him choose what we eat that weekend because school food isn't mom food. He wanted liver and onions (did I mention he'd not normal?). So I fixed it for him and asked him, "How's your liver?" and he shot back. "Fine until I start drinking." \n  When I got pregnant with my last son, I was breaking it to my kids. They wanted to know how I knew I was going to have a baby because my belly wasn't big yet. They were 8 and 10 then,  so I showed them the test stick and told them, "One line means I'm not pregnant and two lines means I am pregnant." My oldest asked, "So what does three lines mean?"  My then youngest son replied, "It means dad is pregnant!"\n  Last year my 4 y/o was being a brat and his daddy told him to stop or he was going to get a swat on his bottom. My son ran into my bedroom, locked my door and yelled out, "How you gonna spank me now?". \n  The best way I know to forget about your problems is to laugh. \n  To those that are pulling this, "You shouldn't complain because my life is worse then yours."  I take care of my mother who is dying, I have cancer, bi-polar, thyroid problems, fibromyalgia, HS, PCOS, endometriosis and insulin problem, my brother has a disease that's slowly killing him, my oldest son is going blind and my husband lost his job because there is no work coming in at the shop. But everyone has problems and everyone has a right to ask for help even if it's just to make them laugh. It's not the time to stand back and say, "Oh I've got more problems then you so suck it up." It's the time to say, "hey, I feel your pain. What can I do to help?". I don't feel sorry for myself and don't expect anyone else too. It's a wasted emotion but if someone needs help or even a little empathy so that they don't feel so alone then I'm happy to help. \n  Remember the old saying.. I used to complain that I had no shoes until I met a man that had no feet.
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NEVER EVER BRIBE!  It will backfire at some point rather it be when he is 5 or 18 years old.  Don't Force him to go either.\n\nMy oldest (who is now 9) was not potty trained unitl he was almost 4.  I never forced him.  I feared my oldest would not be potty trained in time for Kindergarten.  \n\nLet him watch daddy go potty, that works wonders. Take lots of books for him to "read" while he is doing his business.  <-----Worked for my oldest.\n\nAlways, ALWAYS praise him.  Be as Goofy as you can be when he goes potty.  Be his cheerleader.  Let him see how happy it makes you.  And not just on his first time....EVERY time he goes...BE GOOFY and award him LOTS of praise!\n\nIt will come.
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This ones a little scary!  By the looks of your intellectual level, I sure hope that youngster is out of diapers!\n\nFrom my point of view, a child should have reached double digits before being left alone.  Children do strange things when left alone, usually out of fear.  Most normal kids, by the time they're ten, could probably survive short term isolation.
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Some religons teach the use of using running water and the use of your left hand for toilet purposes only. The best bet would be to research religous practices and talk to parents from different cultures. This way you will get a handle on what different parents want via hygene and what the different types of childrens needs are, which will need to be catered for.
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OK dose she wear diapers all the time or is this the first time she has ever put a diaper on to use it. I know by what you said that its the first time you have ever caught her in a diaper. Have you tryed talking to her about this and asking why she was doin this. It can be a range of thing from depression to ocd to a fetish or it can be that she has psychology infantilism. or she is having some kind of sideaffect from a drug. If its a fetish here are some things to look for.1 did she seem like she was in a real good mood when you seen her in that wet and messy diaper. 2 dose she usely go to the bathroom and not in a diaper 3 did she say i just wanted to see what it would feel like to pee and poop my diaper. If she did any of these then its more than likely a FETISH. If not she should be seen by a mental health Dr. If you would like to know more about this feel free to e-mail me and we can talk about this and maybe i can help you to understand what she it doin
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i teach pre k in a Christian school. i had invited the other classes to come over to my room for something and when it was over i leaned over to pick up a pile of carpet squares. in front of a parent volunteer and 2 other teachers and about 30 4 and 5 year olds my pants ripped up the seam - i mean, the whole thing. i guess they were just washed one too many times. the worst part is i had on bright red thong underwear. \n\noen of my proudest moments there....i wanted to just crawl in a whole and hide. \n\nand then, i had to stand up and walk backwards across the room and figure out a way to get a change of clothes! \n\nit was a nightmare!
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That's an interesting concept.  To be fair, we should also use it on everyone.  Since children have problems with incontinence, they would be killed, saving the wet patch on the bus seat.  They'd never have the problem as adults, since they'd be dead.  Does this make more sense?
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Have you ever, in your entire life, seen an infant of either sex sit down to pee? No, of course not. They have to be taught that through what we refer to as 'potty training', and it takes a long time and quite a bit of work, with inevitable backsliding.\n\nIn other words it is quite clearly the case that the female 'race' has to be taught to pee sitting down. It's 'instinctive' to pee in whatever position you are in at the time you feel the urge. All else is taught.
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My youngest step daughter used to wet her bed in the early hours of the morning.  We stopped this by getting her up just before we went to bed around 11pm and taking her to the toilet.  Also restricted drinks after 5pm.  During the day, we just asked every so often if she needed to go to the loo.  And if too longer gap between visits she had to go and try even if she thought she didnt need to go.  Also the bed wetting and "accidents" were down played to being no big deal so as to not associate negative stuff with the whole thing.  Most kids either get too caught up in what they are doing or having to much fun to notice they need to go to the loo or they can be stressed about other events in their lives.