Lesson Category: Toddlers & PreSchoolers

The ABCs of Potty Learning Series is designed to help you develop strong habits to support your young children to use the potty in developmentally appropriate ways. Resources will be shared, group discussion will be encouraged, and individualized recommendations offered to meet your young children's strengths and challenges.

In this group session, we will

• Celebrate what has been achieved
• Identify learnings about what works for you and your child
• Dig into your expectations for how, when, and where your child may need extra support
• Discuss parents' needs for and sources of support

The ABCs of Potty Learning Series is designed to help you develop strong habits to support your young children to use the potty in developmentally appropriate ways. Resources will be shared, group discussion will be encouraged, and individualized recommendations offered to meet your young children's strengths and challenges.

In this group session, you will have the opportunity to:

• Introduce yourself and meet other members of the group
• Review a positive and effective approach to potty learning 
• Describe your efforts so far in potty learning routines
• Identify strengths and challenges you are facing 
• Set your goal for the coming week with individualized recommendations for small successes. 

Common challenges in the potty learning process are getting to the potty in time, using a potty away from home, and using a potty when with friends.

You began potty learning when you and your child showed signs of being ready. You may have had great early progress and then it stalled. Potty learning involves reminders and support for a year or more and can feel like a never-ending chore. If you feel discouraged, the solutions offered in this class will help you.

Lost interest in potty after a few good weeks.

It can be discouraging when your child’s potty learning successes seem to disappear. It may be that your young child is trying to gain mastery by innovating – doing it in new ways that you may not approve of.

Wondering when your child will get out of diapers at night?  Frustrated by your child’s lack of motivation to be dry during naps?  A few suggestions on how you can set the stage for success might make the difference! 

Your older child was so excited about the new baby. But now that your baby has arrived, he is uncooperative and sometimes acts like a baby, himself. Meanwhile, you're trying to control your youngest as she starts to throw tantrums and learns the word "no." This scenario is all too common, but there are simple tools you can use to increase your children's compliance and decrease your stress.

We want our children to live healthy, happy lives with strong connections and a positive sense of self. Conversation is a pathway to developing and sustaining a healthy and trusting relationship with your child and for having a positive impact on how they see themselves.

In this class, you will learn (1) how to support your babies and toddlers throughout the day with positive routines and (2) about the inborn drives that support young children to learn family routines.

It has been said that perfectionism is a trait that makes life an endless report card on accomplishments or appearances. The tendency toward perfectionism has increased significantly among young people over the past 30 years. It can be associated with depression, anxiety, eating disorders and even suicide. The needs to feel accepted and to be cared about tend to drive perfectionism and without treatment, may get worse over time. 

Perfectionists strive for flawlessness in themselves and/or in others. If you’re wondering whether you have these tendencies, the chances are that you do to one degree or another.