Advanced Toilet Training (Parenting Aus)

Complete toilet training is a longer process than I thought.  I’m sharing my thoughts on the whole process over at Parenting Australia today.  Head over there to read the rest of this post, and find out what’s involved in, ahem, ATT.

Before I had my own children, I thought toilet training was a period of a few weeks whereby a child transitioned from wearing nappies to wearing pants. Sure there would be accidents, and a few incentives might be required, but once it was done it was done. Over. Finished. Good bye nappy, hello happy pants.

Wrong.

We generally say a child is “toilet trained” when they can recognise the need to go, and get there in time to do it. But there is still a lot more to the toilet training process.  I am learning that it takes a couple of years (yes, YEARS) for the process to be done.  Beyond the basics of get-there-and-go comes what I’m calling Advanced Toilet Training. Yep, made that one up all by myself.  ATT for short.