Potty Training: Activity Session One

Potty training is a tedious experience. One must undertake this task with determination, clarity and consistency. Compromise is not to be tolerated. The objective to be achieved is not debatable. Offences will be dealt with by confinement to the pillory. The child must understand what is required of them and the parent must be diligent and patient. Start slowly of start quickly depending upon the nature and the temperament of the child and once started be encouraging and above all consistent. Now we use the term potty training but what we are really doing is teaching. We are teaching the child self-management and responsibility. We are teaching the child how to do for him or herself in one of the basic functions of being a person and so we must educate the child properly in hygiene and cleanliness which will benefit the child in many other aspects of life.

The baby days are over with and are long gone and now comes the time of the beginning of responsibilities. This is the first developmental stage in the next phase of growing up. From this point on infancy is eradicated. When mistakes happen do not belittle the child and keep in mind that this is a learning process and as such the patience of the teacher is certainly a virtue and do not expect the child to be a superhero because correctness come with experience and experience comes with time. There are points when you may become very frustrated and angry and that is perfectly ok because you are entirely human yet do not allow your frustration or angry burst out upon the child and one way that this is done is by keeping in mind that the child is the student and you are the teacher and in that reference you can abate your temper.

These are still the early innocent days. The times of trouble are still some years away when work and taxes and bills make life a strain. When we must endure the campaign jargon. When we spend allot of time trying to examine exactly who and what we are. When we understand that we are finite and were born to die. When the boy friend or the girlfriend just did not quite work out, or when we find ourselves confined to some dead end job. Oh! Pardon me. I kind of lost it for a moment there, now back to potty training. The judicial processes for violation of the set purposes which is of course self-sufficiency and proper hygiene can be administered in the following order.

(1)The first offence requires explanation, clarification, admonishment and encouragement.

(2)The second offence requires at least thirty lashes and consigned to bed early.

(3)The third offence necessitates that the child must be subjected to the pillory.

(4)On the fourth and last offence, the child must walk the plank.

Listen to me those of you who are now engaged in potty training. Follow the judicial principles that I have outlined above and you will not go wrong, of course there is the probability of life imprisonment, but be encouraged, we must make sacrifices for our children. Potty training is exhausting and carries with it a potty full of frustration, grind it out and remember that someone had to potty train you. At this stage you should have some idea of the temperament and learning abilities of your child and therefore you should have an idea of what to expect as far as time and effort on your part will be required the teach your child this basic personal responsibility. Be consistent. Be patient. Be encouraging. Be firm. Be loving and before you know it this stage of learning for both you and your child will be over and done with.