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How Do We Know When to Back Off?

While a number of parenting materials would say children ages 18 months to 3 years need to be toilet trained, that does not necessarily apply to all children. Being a mother, you have long realized that your child is unique. He has his unique attitude and unique needs. Potty training is something that you need to work on with your child, only when he is ready. Starting too early on your toilet training might put you through a series of potty training problems.

Most potty training problems are caused by a child’s immaturity. Immaturity means that he is not yet ready for the demands of toilet training. Immaturity can lead to days, weeks and months of messy training. Children usually have a short attention span. They will not stay focused on something that they cannot understand. As you may observe, young children tend to keep their hands at work which causes them to discover the contents of your purse or make a mess with your makeup.  They can’t help it; they are still immature.

Another potty training problem is over-imaginativeness. Some children refuse to go near the toilet bowl fearing that they might get sucked down the toilet by the flush. Ridiculous as it may sound but those little minds sure get worked up with surreal impressions of your toilet.

If a child urinates after a bowel movement or right after being taken off the toilet, it is a good sign that he is still not ready to go through potty training. This scenario is often caused by his inability to relax the muscles that control the bladder and bowel at the same time.