Potty training a toddler can be an incredibly challenging task - but one mum claims that she's got it down to a fine art. Courtney Ryrie regularly shares content with regards to motherhood online, and she's recently detailed a 'long-awaited three-day potty training video' - claiming the method is as easy as A, B, C.
The mum-of-two outlined how she managed to train her two-year-old son in just 72 hours with her 3P rule - which involves parents practicing 'persistence, patience, and praise'. Taking to TikTok to share the clip, Courtney broke the method down in an easy to follow method.
But she also issued a stern warning to those wanting to give it a go themselves.
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The Mirror reports that in the clip, @scottishcourt detailed: "Just to prepare you guys before you make plans, your child is going to be naked the whole three days and you will not be able to leave the house at all for those three days, so make sure you plan around a time you don't have to go out and do anything."
She then went on to advise how parents should begin by giving their youngster loads of liquids, and placing them on the potty every ten minutes over the course of the first day. The savvy-social media expert, added: "Persistence. This is the most important in the first day, or however long it takes for your child to grasp it.
"Personally for us, it was one day to know where the pee goes. Every ten minutes you're going to put your child on the toilet and say 'Do you need to go?'. The whole day you're going to fill them up with juice, any juice they want. For three days it's not going to matter. And every single ten minutes, toilet. Toilet. Toilet. You do that until it's bedtime."
She added: "Now while our son was in the toilet we'd let him use his iPad to keep him on it because at first he was like get me away. But after a couple of times, he got the gist. He got his iPad so he wanted to go on it. And he kind of tried tricking us sometimes by sitting on it for like 20 minutes so he could watch 20 minutes on his iPad, but we kind of let it pass the first day because it is his first day.
"At the end of the first day, he knew, 'Wait, I need to pee', so he'd come and get us so we'd take him to the toilet. By the time the second day came, he was going to the toilet by himself. That was great for us."
According to Courtney, patience is a virtue - especially should your child have any accidents during the important training period. She explained: "When it comes to patience, the reason you need this is because, the first day especially, there's going to be a lot of accidents.
"Anyone would have that. We actually had to replace our play mats because he peed on them a couple of times. If they miss, no big deal, clean it up. Because if you make them feel negative about it, they won't want to do it anymore.
"By the end of the first day, the accidents reduced a lot, and we had no accidents for us personally on the second day in regards to the peeing department."
Courtney and her husband also made sure they rewarded their little boy with Reese's Pieces every time he used the potty, suggesting that other parents find their own unique ways of positive reinforcement. She continued: "You cheer, you celebrate them, lift them up, give them - whether it be a sticker, candy, a toy, whatever you think will motivate them.
"By the end of day one, Kolsyn was coming to get us every single time he needed the bathroom for us to take him to the potty. By the end of day two, the beginning of day three, he was going all by himself. Honestly, I was so shocked at how fast he did it!"
