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Toilet Training
Learning to use the toilet is a big step for both toddlers and their parents. Parents often need support and advice about when and how to begin toilet training.
Here you'll find answers to all of those questions as well as information on related issues such as bed-wetting.
Reviewed July 2009
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| Title: | Preschooler sleep: in a nutshell |
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| Publisher: | Raising Children Network (RCN) |
| Description: | This in-a-nutshell guide explains how much sleep preschoolers need and what to do about nightmares, night terrors and calling out in the night. |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | Toilet training |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Learning to use the toilet is a big step for toddlers and it can be difficult for some. |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | School-age sleep: in a nutshell |
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| Publisher: | Raising Children Network (RCN) |
| Description: | An in-a-nutshell guide to how much sleep school-age children need, good bedtime routines for school children, bedwetting in school-age children, nightmares and night terrors in school-age children, and school children's sleep cycles. |
| Date: | Feb 2010 |
| Title: | Constipation and children |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Constipation is a common problem in children. A healthy diet, adequate fluid intake, exercise, correct toilet training and regular toilet habits are important to prevent and help treat constipation in children. Treatment for infant constipation requires expert medical advice. |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Bedwetting |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Bedwetting is something that lots of children would rather not talk about, especially if it happens to them. A lot of children grow out of wetting the bed before they start school but many children do not. This is not your fault - |
| Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Title: | Domestic violence and children |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Domestic violence affects children. All children are affected emotionally by witnessing violence. Children who witness regular acts of domestic (family) violence have greater emotional and behavioural problems than other children. Some of the immediate effects may include nightmares, anxiety, withdrawal and bedwetting. |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | Bedwetting |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Bedwetting is sometimes called nocturnal (night-time) enuresis. While a lot of children grow out of wetting the bed by the time they start school, many children of primary school age still wet the bed. |
| Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Title: | Toilet training |
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| Publisher: | Novita Children's Services |
| Description: | Information about the timing of training, preparation for training, training tips and special considerations for children with disabilities. |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | Faecal incontinence in children (encopresis) - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Children with encopresis are not soiling their underwear deliberately, and they should receive medical help. |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Title: | Toilet-training problems |
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| Publisher: | The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
| Description: | The age at which a child masters the different skills of toilet training, such as night-time control, varies widely. Unless there is a physical problem, toilet training occurs naturally, and the process cannot be speeded up by pressure from parents. |
| Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Title: | Grief and children |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Children can experience grief and loss from a very young age. Children dealing with grief may act out feelings, experience changes in sleep and eating patterns, display younger behaviours (regress) such as thumb sucking or bedwetting, or display anger or frustration. It can be difficult to talk to a child about death but it is important to be honest with them. |
| Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Title: | Bedwetting |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Bedwetting is common in young children and is part of their physical and emotional development. The pad and bell method may help some children, but most children develop urinary control without outside help. Punishment will not prevent bedwetting. |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Toilet training - staying dry at night |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Toilet training takes time. A child usually masters daytime toileting well before they can keep their bed dry at night. There are many practical suggestions you can try to manage bedwetting. Remember that if your child is scared of the dark, going to the toilet at night is an enormous challenge. |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Soiling |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | this topic is about long-lasting constipation and soiling, or doing poo in the pants. 'Constipation' has information about more simple-to-manage constipation. |
| Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Title: | Toilet training |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Toilet training and using the toilet is a big step in your toddler's life. Some toddlers get the knack quickly while others need parental patience and support. Don't start toilet training too early and try to keep relaxed. Some parents encourage their child to use both the toilet and potty. |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Bed-wetting - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Wetting the bed: find out about the causes, effects on children and available treatments for bed-wetting. |
| Date: | May 2008 |
| Title: | Drugs for nocturnal enuresis in children (other than desmopressin and tricyclics) |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Night-time bedwetting is common in childhood and can cause stigma, stress and inconvenience. There is not enough reliable evidence to show that drugs (other than desmopressin or tricyclics) reduce night-time bedwetting in children during treatment, but ... |
| Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Title: | Desmopressin for nocturnal enuresis in children |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Bedwetting is a distressing and stressful condition for children and their families. Some children take longer than others to stop bedwetting. Up to 20% still wet at the age of five years, but by the age of 16 only 2% or less do so. Desmopressin is a dr... |
| Date: | May 2006 |
| Title: | Toilet training |
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| Publisher: | Raising Children Network (RCN) |
| Description: | A step-by-step guide to when and how to toilet train your child, as well as how to deal with setbacks and wet nights. Also discusses training pants, constipation and whether to use a toilet or a potty. |
| Date: | May 2006 |
| Title: | Behavioural and cognitive interventions with or without other treatments for the management of faecal incontinence in children |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Children with "faecal incontinence" cannot control their bowel movements and so they soil their underwear. Sometimes people use the word "soiling" or "encopresis" to mean the same thing. Faecal incontinence can be caused by either physical or psychological problems. |
| Date: | Feb 2006 |
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