potty-training
Teaching bathroom independence
Potty-training is the process of teaching a young child to use a toilet instead of diapers.
The term applies to both the period and the activity: We're in the middle of potty-training, Potty-training took six months.
The child being taught is said to be potty-training or getting potty-trained.
State of being prepared
- accidentsUnintended harmful occurrences
- pull-upsOverhead bar lifts
- regressionReturn to former state
- consistencyReliable adherence to standards
rewards · praise · patience · routine · schedule · cues · signals · prompting
Capacity to withstand force
- regressionReturn to former state
- constipationDifficult, infrequent waste elimination
- withholdingKeeping from another
- bedwettingInvoluntary urination during sleep
refusal · anxiety · setbacks · frustration · cleanup · laundry
readiness
State of being prepared
- accidentsUnintended harmful occurrences
- pull-upsOverhead bar lifts
- regressionReturn to former state
consistency · rewards · praise · patience · routine · schedule · cues · signals · prompting · reminders
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
- regressionReturn to former state
- constipationDifficult, infrequent waste elimination
- withholdingKeeping from another
bedwetting · refusal · anxiety · setbacks · frustration · cleanup · laundry
timer
Duration-tracking mechanism
- wipesRubs clean
modeling
Simulating or demonstrating form
potty-trainingcontinent
Large connected landmass
potty-trained · incontinent · bed-wetting · dry · regression
potty-trainingincontinence
Inability to retain waste
bladder control · regression · bowel control · bed-wetting · enuresis
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