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Toilet Training Twins or Triplets
Tips for Teaching Multiples to Use the Potty By Gwen Morrison
According to Multiple Births Canada, it is important for parents to have a potty seat for each child so that each can have possession of their own toileting area. In this way, they can choose to practice together or apart, progress at their own rates and not feel they have to challenge their sibling for a chance to use the potty.
"They can learn from each other," says Haddon. She has talked to parents who say one child can be encouraged by the other's successes with potty training. "But if one is disturbing the other – one wants to train and another doesn't – then move the one who wants to use the potty to another room and let him have privacy."
Multiple Births Canada recommends the following when potty training multiple birth children:
- Remember to assess each child's readiness individually.
- Don't compare the children to each other or place blame regarding readiness or performance.
- Don't make a child who is ready to toilet train wait for his or her siblings to be ready.
- Take each child individually to the potty chairs if your children are ready to proceed at different times.