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The ABC of potty training A committed mindset Be patient Create time and stay consistent Steps to quick potty training • It is important that your child is ready for potty training before you commence this exercise. Check out the article, When should I start potty training my child, to see if your child is ready. • Let your child get familiar with the potty; keep the potty where he can see it. He should feel free to sit on it with clothes on • Start first with letting him/her go for a certain length of hours in a day without their diapers. Take him to the potty every 15 minutes during this time. You could probably choose 2 – 3 hours in the morning and 2-3 hours in the evening. For example, you could choose to keep him without diapers between 8 and 10 in the morning and 3 and 5 in the evening. Make sure you maintain these times daily. Routine is always helpful for children. • Turn on the tap when you place your child on the potty, the sound of running water could stimul...

Potty training is the process of weaning a child from weeing (urinating) and pooing (defecating) on their diapers. Sometimes parents rush this because they want to cut down the cost of investing in diapers. One way to make the potty training process easy for both parents or caregivers and children is to wait till the child is ready. If not, it could be a long, frustruating and tortuous journey. Children are ready to be potty trained at different ages because every child is unique. Children are generally potty trained between the ages of 18 months and three years.Generally, girls are ready to be potty trained a few months earlier than boys.                               Photo Credit: Pixababy Here are some signs to look out for, to know if your toddler is ready to be potty tr ained . ü   Your child can stand, walk and run on her own. ü   She shows discomfort when her diaper is wet o...

It is a new school session, after a very long holiday. I don’t know about you but one thing I have noticed is that once school resumes, it seems as if the children develop an unending cycle of colds, cough and other illnesses. This is especially true for the younger children. Children miss a lot of school days due to illness.  This could probably be because children come in close contact with other children who might have one infectious disease or the other. It could also be because the stress of school resumption as well as not eating as well as they should, bring down their immune levels. Thank goodness, it is not just bad news all the way. I have also noticed that if we could put a few things in place, chances of our children coming down with flu like symptoms – catarrh, cough, head heaviness, fevers etc and other illnesses would be reduced.  So what do I do to protect my child? ü Simple – build up his/her immunity. Yes, I know it sounds like the same ...

I remember when hand sanitizers expired on the shelves of a lot of pharmacies and supermarkets. Some people didn't know what it was used for while others didn't feel it served any useful purpose since they could always wash their hands with soap and water. However, the hand sanitizer business experienced a boom in Nigeria from July when the first case of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) was reported in Lagos. The demand greatly surpassed the supply. I began to wonder if all the people scrambling for sanitizers were just adding it to their acquisitions or if they were actually making good use of them. This post serves to remind us of why beyond EVD, hand sanitizers are must haves and also how and when to use them. Hand sanitizers should not replace hand washing,  but should be used when one does not have access to soap and water. They are portable and this makes it easier for one to maintain good hand hygiene at all times. Having hand sanitizers in schools help reduce cases o...