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Changes of clothes
– the program will not
succeed without a sufficient quantity of clothes
for the child’s needs, including socks, tops,
and shoes. Although this may appear to be a
marginal issue, it often happens that due to
insufficient changes of clothes, the child has to
go back to wearing a diaper, which prevents
progress in the process.
Coping with difficulty and frustration (of
the parents and the child)
– in general, as
mentioned earlier, the toilet training process
has ups and downs. The parents need to
know that the longer the process takes, the
more moments and days of difficulty and
frustration can be expected.
It is important to
understand that this is natural, but it is also
important not to give up and, despite the
difficulty, to maintain consistency and project
confidence and belief in the child’s ability to be
toilet trained.
Differences in control over urination and
defecation
– children without disabilities also
have differences in control over the two forms
of elimination.
In general, it is easier to control
the bladder, while bowel control is harder and
therefore toilet training from defecation in a
diaper can be longer and more frustrating.
Night-time toilet training is a subject that is