Toilet training

As cleanliness or toilet training or potty training, is referred to the attempt to promote young children going to use the potty or the toilet for bladder and bowel evacuation. This phase is preceded by the use of diapers. As a bubble or toilet training a common, usually associated with involuntary loss of urine voiding, in contrast, refers to the attempt to adapt to the needs of everyday life again for the first time or in old age.

Is a prerequisite for successful toilet training, that the infant has learned the control of bladder and sphincter muscles of the anus. A complete voluntary control of the bladder is only possible from the age of four. In 5 years old, then 80 % of all children also dry at night.

In the opinion of Sigmund Freud, a too early or rigid toilet training lead to " aggressive It pulses " and cause obsessive-compulsive disorder: "It's one of the best sign of later oddity or nervousness when an infant obstinately refuses to empty the intestine when it is set to the pot, so if you please, but the function reserves the nurse his own will. "

According to a study of pediatricians of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ( Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ) leads an early start toilet training, not to increased problems such as constipation, stool behavior or fear of going to the toilet, which is slightly earlier learning of bowel movements but also with a much longer learning phase connected. Furthermore it could be shown that an age of 27 months has in no way be considered a milestone for the control of bowel movements.