Have Fun with Potty Training

A few creative tactics can turn the potty training from a struggle to a walk in the park!

Potty training can be a challenge, especially with your first child. But it should also be a fun and exciting experience for both you and your child.

Take a casual approach, and make it creative! Your child should feel and be the one in control of the situation, not you as parent.

Toilet training is a natural part of a child's development. Before getting started, you can try out a wide array of methods to get your child interested in the actual training.

Books, videos and DVDs can help build your child's excitement making them interested without the usual forcing. You can go to the nearest bookstore and pick out three books that your child really likes. Call these his potty books, and he should only read those when he is on the potty.

The potty chair or seat that fits on an adult toilet is very necessary with the training process. It is his visual representation where he must go when he feels going to the bathroom. Take him with you when shopping for the perfect child-sized seat or potty. Take the one with his popular cartoon character.

In addition, let your child help choose the training pants or underwear that he likes. Letting your child make these choices will likely make him more interested in involving himself in the whole process.

Here are more creative tactics that he cannot resist. Dying the toilet water with red food coloring will surprise him. It changes to orange and your child would love to know that they did some magic with this.

You can also use a doll that wets to model the toilet-training steps. Us parents as live models and a doll model makes potty training easier and more fun.

With the doll model, your child will see where the urine comes from. It will show him how to remove the doll's diapers. It also illustrates how to place the doll on the potty seat. It will likewise teach him how to flush the toilet.

You can also use floating toys. They let your child playfully aim these toys as targets. You can find one in Cheerios.

Never pressure your child for unsuccessful attempts at using the potty. Just play with it and offer some reward schemes for good jobs.

By being creative with your plans, potty training can be a very fun experience. Be prepared to take some and the experience will be a true happy moment.