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Willingness to sit on the toilet seat:
to feel the
touch of the seat on the body, and get used to
the height of the seat.
Patience to sit on the toilet for the required
time – usually up to 5 minutes (some children
get up immediately and find it difficult to wait).
Willingness to wear underpants.
The child shows some kind of initiative or
attention to this subject – this is the optional
situation, but as noted, it is not an essential
condition and it is possible to succeed in the
toilet training process even when there is no
such initiative.
4.
Why not take the child to the toilet every
half an hour?
The aim of the toilet training process is to bring
children to a stage at which they have better
control over their need to use the toilet,
according to their capability.
At the start of the
toilet training process, many children are taken
to the toilet every half an hour in order to
expose them to the process of going into the
toilet, using the toilet, and understanding that
this is the appropriate place to do so.
If this
situation continues too long, the child will not
learn to hold back, and will not eliminate