Tips On Getting Started With Nighttime Potty Training

Creating a positive daytime or nighttime environment should be a priority for all parents before ever beginning potty training. Your child picks up multiples cues from his environment. These messages can help or hinder your attempts at potty training. Here some tips on how to create and promote a positive atmosphere when beginning night time potty training.


Reduce The Stress In Your Family's Life

Just after the arrival of a new baby is not the time to begin trying to change your child's long-term wetting problem. It is important that others stressor be kept to a minimum during training, both for your sake and for your child's. He will need extra attention and under standing. Other major projects competing for your time and attention will most likely have to be put aside for a time. To try halfheartedly to achieve night time dryness and give up prematurely would be discouraging to you and more devastating to your child than simply doing nothing. So to the extend possible, make night time dryness your top priority.


Choose Optimism

Your children will imitate you in so many ways, the way you dress, the way you talk, the things you laugh at. When the subject is wetting, your child will take her cues from you. If you present the program with a positive attitude and lots of encouragement, your sowing the seed of success. If you react calmly and confident during difficult times, you'll be sending your child a clear message: we can handle this together.


Enlist The Support Of Others

Neither you nor your child would feel comfortable broadcasting details of his night time wetting problems to the entire neighborhood, but, depending on your circumstances, certain key people should be told. For example, teachers need to be aware if your child wets during the day so they can give your child easy access to the potty. You may find support in speaking to another family that has experience bedwetting. Remember, though, your child is probably sensitive about his wetting and would prefer to keep it private. Extended family members and other who care for your child when he might wet, such as grandparents and babysitters, also need to know about your child's wetting problems.


Simplify Clean-up

Optimism and determination go a long way, bet there's no denying the benefits of a good mattress pad. Use absorbent bedwetting with a plastic mattress cover.


Promoting Dryness

Promote the idea of dryness during daily activities, and build mental cues that reinforce the idea. For example, read child oriented books on the subject with your child, talk to him about the benefits of being dry (such as going on sleepovers).


Resting Up And Ready

Make sure your child is getting plenty of rest. An overtired child is more likely to sleep so deeply that he will have more trouble learning night time dryness.