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22nd October 2023
11:55am BST

"Personally for us, it was one day to know where the pee goes. Every ten minutes you're going to put your child on the toilet and say 'Do you need to go?'.
"The whole day you're going to fill them up with juice, any juice they want. For three days it's not going to matter. And every single ten minutes, toilet. Toilet. Toilet. You do that until it's bedtime."
She went on to say: "Now while our son was in the toilet we'd let him use his iPad to keep him on it because at first he was like get me away. But after a couple of times, he got the gist.
"He got his iPad so he wanted to go on it. And he kind of tried tricking us sometimes by sitting on it for like 20 minutes so he could watch 20 minutes on his iPad, but we kind of let it pass the first day because it is his first day.
"At the end of the first day, he knew, 'Wait, I need to pee', so he'd come and get us so we'd take him to the toilet. By the time the second day came, he was going to the toilet by himself. That was great for us."
Patience is key during this process because it is likely that your child will have a few accidents as they’re getting used to their new bathroom routine.
Courtney explained: " If you make them feel negative about it, they won't want to do it anymore.
"By the end of the first day, the accidents reduced a lot, and we had no accidents for us personally on the second day in regards to the peeing department."
The final step in her fool-proof process is positive reinforcement. Courtney and her husband say they make sure to reward their child each time he used the potty successfully.
She added: "You cheer, you celebrate them, lift them up, give them - whether it be a sticker, candy, a toy, whatever you think will motivate them.
"By the end of day one, Kolsyn was coming to get us every single time he needed the bathroom for us to take him to the potty.
“By the end of day two, the beginning of day three, he was going all by himself. Honestly, I was so shocked at how fast he did it!"
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