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Summary: Before potty training a child, make sure that they are ready by looking for signs that the child is letting the parent know they are ready. Potty train a child and avoid pressure and stress with tips from a day care owner in this free video on parenting and child care.
Veronica Baragas has been working with children and families for 10 years. Her experience includes being a full-time nanny, live-in nanny, babysitter, household manager and daycare...read more
"Hi my name is Veronica Baragas with my wiggles and giggles dot com, and I'd like to share with you a little bit about painlessly potty train. All of the times we start to get pressure from your mother or your mother in law, or you know, you start to feel that burning of maybe, you know, starting to potty train. So let's just take a look at some of the things and see whether, you know, we're ready for potty train. So, I have a little list of things here that you can see about signs of readiness. Now, is your little one, you know, ready, do they stay dry through the night, have they woken up and they still have a dry diaper, is he ready to be changed as soon as he goes. A lot of the times they'll start to let you know, you know, that they have pood or peed in their diaper. And a lot of the times they'll start to tell you when they go, and they haven't gone yet but they may be going at the time that you that they acknowledge the fact that they have to go. And realizing when he is peeing, when he or she is peeing, a lot of the times, you know, all three actions kind of go together. They'll let you know and tell you right away. And sometimes they start to take their own diapers off and they're ready to change themselves. So these are a few things, and don't, you know, don't fret, definitely take your time, and, you know, try it time or two, kind of go in there and see when they tart telling you and start, you know, ready to change themselves, start to take the actions and to go in there, but you know, don't rush yourself, and your baby will let you know when they're ready. So definitely take the time off, take the time and take the pressure ff yourself and let everybody know that your baby is just not quite ready yet, and it's just taking an easy approach to potty training."
eHow Article: How to Painlessly Potty Train