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• Make cleaning the potty chair chamber easier by keeping an inch or so of water in the bottom of the pot.

• Or place a few sheets of toilet paper on the bottom for a quicker clean-up of bowel movements.

• Or cover the clean removable bowl with clear cling wrap and then just lift out the deposited contents now contained in the wrap.

• NEVER put any bleach in the bottom of a clean chamber pot. Urine contains ammonia and if a child urinates into the bleach it will cause a chemical reaction producing toxic fumes. Using bleach to disinfect the pot in the cleaning-up process, however, will not be problematic.

• Consider having your child be responsible for cleanup. Not every parent is comfortable with this, nor will every child adapt to it. Keep in mind that it’s not really developmentally appropriate for a very young child.

• Fascination with feces is not unique to your toddler. To prevent a child from playing with it, take the potty chamber out of reach after use. You may need to wait a bit before flushing it if your child is insistent. This stage usually does not last too long. Whew!

Potty training is a lot like a first kiss. You can’t do much about it—it just happens. In my daughter’s case, potty training occurred over a weekend. The key, found out by accident, was that she didn’t want to be taken to her potty and prompted (how silly of me to think that would work!) but rather, characteristically, wanted to do it herself. Once we got that straight, all I had to do was praise the results.

Kathe Grooms, St. Paul, MN