103 Reasons for Potty Training Your Child

103 Reasons for Potty Training Your Child!

There are a million and one reasons for potty training your child. From social concerns to simple hygiene, to helping your child acquire the life skills they need to take their next steps, toilet training is an important step in the developmental process.

The best thing you can do is simply get started.

Here are 103 reasons for potty training your child

1. It’s terrible to feel like a prisoner in your house, just because you’re worried about accidents.
2. Because one in diapers is one too many.
3. Your child can do it and you secretly know it.
4. 18 months is the average worldwide age training.
5. Your best friend almost has her toddler potty trained and you’d like to beat her to the finish line.
6. Poop stinks.
7. If you have to clean up one more accident, you’re going to start running in circles and babbling incoherently.
8. You’re spending more on diapers when you are on retirement.
9. Do you really need any reasons for potty training?
10. Your toddler is letting you know that they think they’re the boss.
11. Your child thinks accidents are funny and you do not.
12. There’s a spot in the carpet that is turning decidedly yellow.
13. Do you really need any more reasons for potty training when your mother-in-law is nagging you?
14. Your child poops in their diaper every time they want attention.
15. When you were your child’s age, you’d already been potty trained for a year.
16. Your cat requires less maintenance than your toddler.
17. Getting your child into preschool can be a great thing for their social development.
18. Really, isn’t one butt enough to wipe?
19. Those cute close they’re wearing will be a lot cuter when they don’t have diaper bulge.
20. Toilet training is funny in retrospect.
21. Once they’re potty trained, you can teach them more about hygiene — a great lesson to learn!
22. How much did you spend on diapers last year again?
23. Can’t lives on Won’t Street.
24. If a dog can do it so can your toddler.
25. The Brown beneath your fingernails doesn’t match your nail polish (One of the TMI reasons for potty training!)
26. You don’t need to be reminded about what you had for dinner last night.
27. It’s bad enough you have to clean the litter box.
28. You’d like to drink lemonade without thinking about your toddler’s last accident.
29. Each diaper holds way too much information.
30. Don’t let your fear of change stand in the way of their evolution.
31. You are tempted to spike your kids milk with Imodium.
32. The process will help your child will help to teach them about privacy.
33. Potty training your child will help to teach them responsibility.
34. Your child is asking why the dog doesn’t have to wear a diaper.
35. You should be able to flush a bad smell.
36. Your flower garden is doing just fine and you don’t need any more fertilizer.
37. Your child can say, “I need to be clean.” They can say, “I have to go.”
38. You’re tired of changing the subject any time toilet training comes up in discussion.
39. It would be nice to eat chocolate again without getting grossed out.
40. Really, corn? Again?
41. Once they’re potty trained, you won’t have to take them with you into the bathroom anymore!
42. Life has enough stress without considering reasons for potty training. Just do it already!
43. Your spending too much money on scented candles.
44. You’re tired of everyone looking in your direction whenever there’s a bad smell.
45. You’re tired of feeling like a sherpa whenever you leave the house.
46. You’re tired of the guilt.
47. You’re sick of Googling, “Reasons for Potty Training.”
48. You’re dreaming in brown and yellow.
49. There are a million better ways to use your time, and you can rattle off 987,631 off the top of your head.
50. You’re thinking about potty training while watching your favorite shows.
51. The process is a LOT funnier when seen through the rearview.
52. The hardest step to take is the first.
53. Your child will walk taller.
54. Sometimes you just have to swallow and get started.
55. You already taught your child how to build with blocks, say please and thank you, and wait their turn. Now it’s time for something bigger.
56. Your child will smile wider.
57. The average age for the completion of training in the 1940’s was 18 months.
58. The average age for completion (in this country) is now climbing toward three years.
59. They can do it and you can help them.
60. They have to learn sometime.
61. You will add more minutes to each of your days.
62. If it was somebody else’s child, you would be thinking they should be trained already.
63. Having a child who is ready to be potty trained but isn’t is like having several extra pounds that need to be shed.
64. You’re running out of excuses because you already have 63 reasons for potty training.
65. The sun will seem brighter, the sky will seem bluer, and food will taste a little bit better.
66. Because what they want and what they need are two different things.
67. Because they need to be trained and you want it to happen.
68. You should’ve started yesterday.
69. Your evenings out will be so much better.
70. It might be more fun than you could possibly imagine.
71. You’d like to go back to your old definition of the word accident.
72. The last thing you want is for your mother in law to be right.
73. It’s important to teach your child to try.
74. Life is undeniably better once you’re finished.
75. You’d rather wash underwear than throw it away.
76. Everything is possible with a solid routine.
77. Your child can be the example.
78. You can finally get some new furniture.
79. You can hear the other mommies whispering.
80. You could get popcorn the last time you went to the movies because you the money was earmarked for diapers.
81. You’re tired of telling people that you spilled coffee on the carpet.
82. The cat is starting to mark his own territory while competing with your toddler.
83. You’re sick of washing underwear in the sink.
84. It’s bad enough you’ve got a constant leak in the kitchen sink.
85. You’re tired of spontaeous eye-irrigation.
86. Really, isn’t “extra absorbent” kinda sorta gross?
87. You’re embarrased when your kid’s carrying a load in public and people looking at you funny.
88. Your kid saw a box of depends at the store and asked how come you don’t wear them
89. When you are having a Sh@^^y morning you really don’t want it to be literal.
90. “$#^& happens” is an expression you’re really sick of.
91. If you have time for a massage, you have time to potty train.
92. You almost got in an accident the last time you smelled their accident in the back seat.
93. Public grunting is embarrassing.
94. Your child’s self esteem will double.
95. If you don’t, you’ll be the last one in play group.
96. All the other kids are doing it.
97. Diaper commercials are holding you hostage.
98. “I did it!” are the three best words ever.
99. You can say goodbye to those squishy poops that squeeze out of the diaper and up your child’s back.
100. You miss eating chocolate ice cream.
101. You only need to see your meals once.
102. Think of all the things you could have, or money you could save, if you weren’t throwing it away on diapers.
103. Unless your job requires it, you shouldn’t have to wash your hands more than 15 times a day.

We hope these 103 reasons for potty training have been helpful. You can do it, we know you can!

Potty Training Power…AWAY!!!