Pressure To Potty-How To Cope With Pressure From Family And Friends And Help Your Child Achieve Potty Training Success
Moms and Dads get bombarded with parenting advice from every direction. From play groups to magazines, from families to co-workers, parents constantly feel pressure for their little one to reach developmental milestones. Potty training is no exception, especially since approximately four million toddlers will share this milestone this year alone. Many family members or peers are often quick to prescribe the “correct way to train” or to dictate the “proper age” for a child to start training, but paying attention to your child’s cues is the best way to ensure success.
To help make the potty training process easier, the PULL-UPS Potty Training Partners (PTPs), a dedicated panel of child psychologists, pediatricians and parenting experts, offer their tried-and-true tips to parents.
Focus on the Positives, from Potty Training Partner Jan Faull
“Parents often benchmark their child’s successes by comparing their progress to other potty training children-whether he or she has begun, mastered or...