Potty Learning - How and Why to Let Children Lead the Way

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

While every child will eventually and inevitably learn to use the potty, the process can be stressful, frustrating, and often counterproductive for both the child and caregiver. Janet knows it doesn’t have to be this way. She offers her perspective on the process and a potty learning method that recognizes a child’s natural motivation to achieve this milestone (they can do this), and how parents can support the effort without pressure, bribes, or deal-making. The result is a child whose self-confidence grows in all areas because he has been allowed to own this accomplishment. Thanks again to Ritual Vitamins for supporting this podcast. Turn healthy habits into a Ritual today and get 10% off your first 3 months by visiting www.ritual.com/respect. For more advice on common parenting issues, please check out Janet's best-selling books on Audible, FREE with a 30-day trial membership if you use this link: adbl.co/2OBVztZ. Paperbacks and e-books are also available at Amazon, Google Play, Barnes & Noble and Apple Books. Janet's exclusive audio series "Sessions" is available for download. This is a collection of recorded one-on-one consultations with parents discussing their most immediate and pressing concerns (www.SessionsAudio.com). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Janet Landsbury. Welcome to Unruffold. Today I'm going to be talking about
0:07.9	potty learning and I want to preface the perspective I share as a perspective.
0:16.1	Obviously not the only way or even for some people maybe the best way to go
0:22.6	about helping our children learn to use the potty. There are a lot of different
0:27.5	methods parents choose and they all seem to result eventually at least in people
0:34.0	who are toilet trained because adults that we know are mostly toilet trained. So
0:39.1	please know this is just a singular perspective that I know for sure works and
0:46.3	I want to share all about it today.
0:50.1	So as you may have gathered from the title of this episode the approach I
0:58.6	believe in is to allow our children to lead and direct and navigate this
1:05.5	process with our support and first I want to explain why I believe this is the
1:10.9	best way because they can. Children are able to do this they can own this
1:17.2	accomplishment and that may seem like an unimportant aspect to some people but
1:24.5	with the approach that I teach with Magdergerber's approach we value
1:29.1	tremendously the self-motivation and the inner directiveness of our children
1:36.6	from birth and that means as much as possible we want to nurture that. We want to
1:41.7	allow them to do the things that they're able to do right from the beginning.
1:45.1	We want to try to hold space for that encourage that so that children can
1:50.9	continue to believe in themselves that they are capable that they can accomplish
1:56.4	not just the things that we want them to but the things that they innately want
2:03.6	to do and learning to go on the potty is one of them because they know that
2:09.2	other people do this and they see that we do this their parents and adult caregivers
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