Potty Training Products
Posted On: 9/24/2008
Choosing from a variety of potty training products, you can personalize how you potty train your toddler. Post a comment and share what products have worked best for you and your son or daughter.
POTTY CHAIRS
Simple Potty Chairs
Standard models are usually made of single piece of molded plastic. They are designed to sit on the bathroom floor. There are no bells and whistles on the basic models, but they do offer simple cleanup and a bargain price. If you will be using more than one bathroom in your home for potty training, simple potty chairs can be an economical choice.
Personalized Potty Chairs
Personalized potty chairs make potty training fun for your child. Some chairs play music and others make realistic flushing sounds when you use them. Others are brightly colored or have designs that include your child’s favorite characters. If you aren’t have much luck with the basic chair, a more appealing potty chair might be just the motivation your child needs.
Toilet Seat Reducers
Toilet seat reducers fit on your toilet seat to make the hole smaller. They help your child feel more secure on an adult toilet seat and simplify cleanup. With this option, you will need a stool or step to help your child onto the toilet.
Convertible Potty Chairs
These potty chairs transition with your child. You can start out using a traditional potty chair that sits on the floor and switch to a toilet seat reducer and step.
Padded Toilet Seats
Some children will need a little extra time on the potty. Padded toilet seats can help keep them comfortable and prevent them from resisting toilet training because of discomfort.
BOOKS AND VIDEOS
Mommy! I Have to Go Potty!: A Parent's Guide to Toilet Training by Jan Faull
Faull is a parent educator with a master’s in early childhood education. In this book, she offers a common-sense approach to potty training. A
Potty for Me! By Karen Katz
Katz writes from a potty trainin toddler’s perspective. Boys and girls can follow along, lifting flaps to see the child play, then sit on the potty. Eat, then sit on the potty. And sleep, then sit on the potty.
Too Big for Diapers by Random House
Baby Ernie is too big for diapers, and he's ready to try out his brand-new potty. Your child can read all about how Ernie learned to use the potty all by himself.
Potty Power - For Boys & Girls (2004)
This thirty-minute DVD initiates and motivates toddler’s interest in potty training.
Potty Whispering: The Gentle Art of Infant Potty Training
This 145-minute DVD is full of commentary by parents and medical professionals.
TRAINING PANTS
Cloth Training Pants
Cloth training pants are recommended by many early childhood experts. Because they allow the child to feel the discomfort of a wet or dirty diaper, cloth training pants can help children become fully potty trained more quickly than other, more diaper-like potty training pants. They are also an eco-friendly choice.
Disposable Training Pants
Disposable training pants have some advantages too. They can protect clothing, bedding, and upholstery and do not need to be laundered. But they can be expensive and your child may not transition as easily, because these training pants feel similar to diapers.
Underwear
Like cloth training pants, cotton underpants are also reusable and allow toddlers to sense when they are wet or dirty. They are just like what adults wear. But traditional underwear lacks the extra padding in cloth training pants, so accidents may be messier and more difficult to clean.