Potty Train Your Child with a Potty Chair
Yes, I know. No one likes to hear about bowel movements and bathroom behavior on the internet but sometimes we must talk about these things to get the right ideas out there. Potty training boys and girls can be difficult. It is one of the first big hurdles in a child’s development as they must learn to stop going to the bathroom whenever and wherever they feel like it. You have to take charge and make sure that they understand that there are certain places for going to the bathroom and that there is a certain method to all of it.
Potty chairs (sometimes called a potty seat) have been around for years, almost decades probably, and have been used with great success to train little children to use the toilet rather than their pants. There are a ton of different types of potty chairs out on the market today but all of them basically use the same training method. Whether they go on top of the toilet in the beginning or whether they just sit down on the floor they will teach your child to sit down on something to relieve himself.
The goal of the potty chair is to ultimately wean your child off of the diaper and put them squarely on the toilet. The problem children face when they originally begin potty training is the size of the toilet. Most toilets are built with the adult body in mind. They are fairly tall because our adult legs are tall and they are fairly wide because (yeah, you know it too) our adult butts are pretty wide. A toddler under the age of four isn’t going to have the body mass (or shouldn’t have the body mass anyway) of an adult and will have a hard time both climbing up on the toilet and sitting comfortably once there.
Potty chairs solve the problem of size by shrinking the toilet down to child size. You can get potty chairs that sit next to the toilet on the floor of the bathroom or you can buy ones that come with step stools and sit on top of the toilet. They allow your child to sit comfortably while they use the bathroom. If I had to choose I would always go with the ones that attach to the actual toilets though. The ones that don’t require a lot of clean up afterwards. The Baby Bjorn Potty Chair is one of my favorites.
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