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Finally diaper-free How to get the child off the diaper?
Many girls and boys have problems with being clean. Therefore, it takes a lot of patience on the part of the parents to get the child off the diaper. On that points the
Social pedagogue Astrid Sult in the pharmacy journal "Baby and Family". In contrast, pressure usually causes the opposite.
Children often find it hard to be clean
"What, your child still has a diaper around?" "So slowly he could be dry!" Sentences such as these are familiar to many parents when it comes to the topic of "cleanliness education". While three-year-old girls in most cases go to the bathroom relatively reliably during the day, boys at Sauber often get a little harder. Yet, both sexes often struggle to "say goodbye" to the diaper. Parents should therefore be as patient as possible and under no pressure, because "cleansing is a process of maturation," explains Astrid Sult, who teaches at the Berlin Institute for Early Childhood Education seminars on the development of cleanliness for kindergarten teachers.
Abandon diapers: That's how it works. Picture: detail-view-foto - fotolia Certain development steps necessary
According to the expert, this process runs differently for each child, because in order to become clean, it must have gone through certain stages of development. Accordingly, it is necessary "that neural pathways between the bladder or intestine and brain mature so far that the child could even perceive a urinary or Stuhldrang. Thereafter, it must first be learned to correctly interpret the corresponding signals of the body and to control the sphincter.
Have a child learn by imitation
Those who build up pressure often cause exactly the opposite of what they actually want to achieve in their child, emphasizes the expert in the magazine "Baby and Family". Since it is the departure from the diaper is a process, even small mishaps are quite normal: "In no case parents may complain when the business is in the pants," says Astrid Sult. Instead, parents should hold their child in their arms, comfort and do not broach the subject - because at that time the children would feel defeated any small mishap anyway. For parents, it is often good to know that between the first successful days without diaper and the complete freedom from diaper up to several years can pass, adds Sult.
It is also important that the bathroom door is always open so that the child can easily reach the potty or the toilet at any time. "The child must be able to come to the bathroom on her own, for example with a step stool," Sult continues. Parents could also support their child in this phase by paying attention to uncomplicated, quickly undressing clothes. Because when it's awkward to unbutton a bodysuit or take off a dungaree, it can quickly be too late. (No)