Are you sick and tired of changing those diapers day after day? All you can think of is the day when your child will go to the bathroom on his own and no diapers has to be changed. Does this sound familiar and are you wanting to start potty training your child but dont know if the time is right or how to go about getting your child out of those diapers.

Getting your child potty trained can be kind of tricky because if your child is not ready this process can take a long time. Then again if you wait too long the child may actually end up resisting your attempts. So when do you start and how do you know if the time is right for your child? How do you know when to begin?

First of all you need to ignore many of the ideas you may have gotten from people around you because each child is so very different when it comes to what will work for them as far as potty training is concerned. You might hear from your parents that your child is very slow in getting trained but in general kids today do get out of diapers later than what children did years ago. Some says it is because the diapers today are much more comfortable than the cloth ones which your parents may have used for you.

For most children today the age when they start showing signs of being ready for potty training is between 2 and 3 years old. One of the first signs that he may be getting ready is when the child is capable of pulling his own pants up and down. This along with questions and curiosity regarding the toilet should give you a clear clue.

Another important physical sign of potty training readiness is the frequency with which your child urinates. If he is still wetting his diaper every half and hour or so, he is not ready. But, if hes going one to two hours between wet diapers, then he is able to hold his urine, which is critical to being truly potty trained, at any age.

This is when you as a parent need to start both explaining and showing how this task is done. First of all let them know that this is how big people go to the bathroom and that they dont use diapers. If you have a son it is now important for dad to take on some of the responsibility by taking his son with him when he goes to the bathroom so your son can actually see how it works. Dad, bringing him with you just once dont work it has to be repeated no matter how uncomfortable it makes you feel and you are the one who has to show him, mom cant.

The same thing goes for mom when it comes to the little girls and when they do start showing interest for the toilet, there are several good story books on the market about potty training that you can start reading to your child at this stage, to help encourage an interest in going potty. There are books geared specifically to boys and those geared to girls, which is helpful.