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To help your child learn to use the toilet on her own
Notice when your child typically
wets her diapers and take her to
the toilet just before this time. Do
this throughout the day, at the
times she is most likely to be wet
(for example, after eating, before
sleeping, and before going to bed
at night).
Teach your child to tell you when
she needs to use the toilet. She can
use a certain word or sign to tell
you.
Jeanne, let’s go to the
toilet now. This is about
the time you usually get
wet. Can you say ‘pee’
when you have to go wet?
Teach her how to sit or
squat on the toilet and clean
herself. Praise her when she
does well.
Good, Luisa!
You used the
toilet just like
me!
I’m here
beside you,
Lidia.
Stay with your child while she uses
the toilet until she is not afraid to be
alone. Show her how to hold onto the
rail and put both feet on the ground,
so she will not be afraid of falling in.
If your child wets herself before getting to
the toilet, take her to the toilet and change
her clothes there. This way she will learn to
connect having dry clothes with sitting on the
toilet.
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