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worth discussing with the staff, and as
necessary setting up a separate program for
this purpose.
Toilet training at night and toilet training in
the day
– many parents report that the child
gets up in the morning with a dry diaper.
In
these cases, it is possible to start toilet training
in the day and at night in parallel. At the same
time, it is usually easier for families first to
complete the daytime toilet training program,
and only then, when the child appears to be
ready, to go over to toilet training at night.
Family involvement in the process
– as we
see it, the toilet training process is private to
the child and should remain within the parent-
child domain without the involvement of other
family members. Successes and accidents
should be kept within this connection, without
making a family celebration out of every
positive incident and/or telling the rest of the
household about accidents. Naturally,
sometimes reality requires a family member or
caregiver to be involved in the process, and it
is important that they too should act
consistently in accordance with the program.
Continuous contact with the framework
– in
order to succeed in the process, it is
necessary to maintain continuous contact with