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Potty Training: 10 Steps to Toilet Teaching Your Toddler

By iVillage Staff - June 20, 2011

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Whether you call it potty training, toilet training or toilet teaching, it can be an intimidating task for parents, especially with all of the conflicting advice out there. Here are 10 easy steps to get your child out of diapers and into underpants in no time!

5 Steps to Prepare for Potty Training

• Does your child show interest?

• Is your child developmentally ready?

• 10 signs your child is bound for potty training success

• 10 steps to prepare for potty training

• Learn how to get started

5 Ways to Tackle the Toilet

• Read 17 tips from parents who've been there

• See which potty training gear you should use

• For boys only: 10 toilet training tips

• Potty training twins

• 10 real-mom ways to toilet train

More Advice from Parents
• See if the 3-Day Potty Training Method might be right for you

• Read 16 things we wish we'd known about potty training

• Beat the bedwetting blues

• Talk to other moms about their successes and failures on the Potty Training message board

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