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You should have a sturdy footstool available to help your child get up on the adult toilet adapter seat. This is also helpful for the child who has learned to use the adult toilet without an adapter seat. A stool can be of value for a small boy who isn’t tall enough to urinate over the edge of the toilet bowl. It also gives a child having a bowel movement a solid footing to push and bear down on.

Footstools can be used afterward to reach the sink and wash hands—an important habit that needs to be established early. Quality wooden footstools are expensive but are usually a good, long term investment. You will find many uses for them over the years in various parts of your home. Many multi-use potty chairs we have mentioned, turn into footstools. But any footstool will do. A good footstool is important to have—probably more so—than even a potty chair.

As far as toilet training my daughter, I’ve decided to leave it up to her (future) husband!

Lynn Souter, Onalaska, WI

I know lots of people have used stickers as rewards during toilet training. We let my son choose a sticker and put it on the inside of the lid of the toilet. It worked like a charm, and looks cute, too.

Susan Boozier, Irvine, CA