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Questions about stooling and constipation.

4. Toilet Training: Another Article - Top

The best time to start toilet teaching is when your child is ready to learn. Watch for some of the following signs in your child:

-She stays dry for several hours at a time during the day or is dry after naps.
-He has regular and predictable bowel movements.
-She indicates through posture, words, or facial expressions, such as grimaces, that she is about to have a bowel movement.
-He expresses discomfort at being in a wet or soiled diaper.
-She is willing and eager to please you and readily follows simple, verbal instructions.
-He is learning to pull his pants up and down.
-She asks to wear grown-up underwear or to use the toilet or potty chair.

-Generally a child begins to develop her sense of independence around two years of age. With this growing independence come skills that indicate she may be ready to learn how to use the potty. Verbalizing about body parts and functions, expressing day-to-day likes and dislikes, trying to undress and dress herself--these are just a few of the signs that your child is developing a sense of self.

"If a child is allowed to work toward independence and conceives that using the toilet is part of being independent, then `bang'--it usually happens," says Joseph F. Hagan, MD, FAAP, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, in Burlington, and a pediatrician in private practice.

(by Maria Buhl Preller) - Updated: March 8, 2001

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4. Toilet Training: Another Article - Top: The best time to start toilet teaching is when your child is ready to learn. Watch for some of the following signs in your child:

-She stays dry for several hours at a time during the day or is dry after naps.
-He has regular and predictable bowel movements.
-She indicates through posture, words, or facial expressions, such as grimaces, that she is about to have a bowel movement.
-He expresses discomfort at being in a wet or soiled diaper.
-She is willing and eager to please you and readily follows simple, verbal instructions.
-He is learning to pull his pants up and down.
-She asks to wear grown-up underwear or to use the toilet or potty chair.

-Generally a child begins to develop her sense of independence around two years of age. With this growing independence come skills that indicate she may be ready to learn how to use the potty. Verbalizing about body parts and functions, expressing day-to-day likes and dislikes, trying to undress and dress herself--these are just a few of the signs that your child is developing a sense of self.

"If a child is allowed to work toward independence and conceives that using the toilet is part of being independent, then `bang'--it usually happens," says Joseph F. Hagan, MD, FAAP, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, in Burlington, and a pediatrician in private practice.

(by Maria Buhl Preller) - Updated: March 8, 2001

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