The excitement of walking, and of being independent, is so overwhelming to a child that this certainly is not a time for a parent to expect any interest in sitting still anywhere—especially on a toilet.
Yet many parents come in for a checkup and say:
“You were absolutely right about the pressure! My parents sent a potty seat in the mail.” Or else: “The daycare center has already asked when I was going to start toilet training.”
“How did it make you feel?” Dr. Berry asks.
“I felt as if I should get going.”
“Can you wait until she’s ready to take it over as her own step?
Parents often reply: “If you say so, but I’d better be successful if I wait. What if I wait too long and miss the cues for when she’s ready?”
“You won’t. She’ll let you know when she’s ready.”
“But I don’t want her to go to college in diapers!”
“I don’t either. And she won’t. If you can wait until she seems ready, in my experience, she’s less likely to fail.”
Still not reassured, parents are bound to ask: “But, I hear so much about bedwetters and kids who won’t go. What are we waiting for?”
Dr. then lays out the seven early signs of readiness a child will show, and urge parents to wait for them. To me, these are the early skills the child will need if she’s going to be successful and use the toilet the way others do, others around her whom she admires.
“That sounds like years away!”
“No, you won’t have to wait until she is grown. I’m just suggesting that you wait for your child to take each of these steps first, so that she can feel successful when she cooperates.”
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