No set time at which to begin toilet training.
Children are successfully toilet trained between the ages of 9 months and 5 years, with an average of 2.4 years.
Children will begin signs of toilet training readiness at 18 months, and training is recommended to begin at 24 months, most children will have achieved successful daytime continence by 30 to 36 months.
95% of children achieve daytime dryness by five years, with 99% having achieve daytime dryness by 10 years and 100% by 12 years.
Incentives for successful toilet training include: increased overall hygiene, admittence to childcare facilities, and a greater of quality of life.
Children who are properly toilet trained develop a new sense of independence, which may generalize to other self help skills.
Using the toilet can you reduce the opportunity to come in contact with viruses and parasites, both of which can cause diarrhea.
Prior to toilet training child must demonstrate bladder control, physical development, and instructional readiness.
Prior to toilet training individual must have cognitive abilities to understand the expectation, to recognize the feeling of a full bladder, and physically empty their bladder in a toilet.
With bladder control a child can release urine in a single urination rather than leaking small amounts of urine and therefore can remain dry for several hours.
Children must have fine and gross motor skills
Other indicators that a child is ready for bladder training occurs when the child imitates parents behavior, or able to pull their clothes up-and-down and gives some indication when he or she is urinating or defecating, and when he or she needs to go.