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Children are naturally playful and eager to learn. They develop into strong, independent people when they are allowed to explore, but also when they can always count on the support of the educators around them. Sharing fun and success together is just as important for good development. By laughing together and sharing cosy moments with parents and educators, a child's confidence grows in others as well as in themselves.
Parents are at least as curious as children. And they want to do well. But they are also vulnerable, at each new stage. They need the entire parenting community around them, because they can't do everything alone. Especially in a world where there is so much different parenting advice online. With support from others and clear information, parents can make confident and well-informed choices that are right for their child. That way, parents grow with the child and a good parent-child relationship is the foundation of every step in potty training.
We live in a volatile time, when everything has to go fast-faster-faster and parents ask a lot of themselves. Above all, we want everything to be easy and efficient. But a quick course for potty training, which many parents desire, backfires. It puts pressure on the process. We want to avoid that.
We therefore invite parents to start on time and watch their child with attention. This way they learn to recognize their child's signals well. Only when parents know what to look for (signs of maturity and behavior) can they help their child recognize and feel these too. And then they can start taking off the diaper step by step after that.
The training consists of 4 steps of the toilet training process, each lasting a few weeks. So that parents do not go too fast and the baby is given time to learn to feel, recognize and indicate it properly. Parents follow their child.
The picture book, which accompanies the training, provides cozy moments. A child does not have to learn or practice all the time, then there is pressure on the relationship. Just looking at pictures together with mom, dad or grandma and laughing about the animals in the book is a valuable moment of relaxation. And provides opportunities for parents and child to chat about it.
We encourage parents to see potty training as learning something new, exploring and practicing with their child. As a result, parents come alongside their child, celebrating successes together. We give parents tips on how to encourage and reward their child with high fives and compliments. We explain why punishing and getting angry doesn't help and the pros and cons of using reward systems. And we help parents be lenient with themselves and persevere. After all, they deserve compliments themselves!
We ensure that parents feel supported by the parenting community, such as the childcare and counseling office. Parents become more confident in themselves by receiving the same information and tips they can apply at home. In this way, all professional educators help as a team.
We offer parents a parenting community during online question hours. There they get tips from our educator and can share experiences with other parents.
We form a team with the other pedagogues and medical professionals. Thus, we follow the same approach as that of the consultation office (Guidelines Youth Health Care ). This makes the Ready for Potty an addition to the existing offer and relieves the staff. So that parents receive concrete training and the experts at the clinic have time for families who need extra help with toilet training.
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