Ming (Agents of Speech) advises parents on overcoming children's toilet aversion by removing defensiveness and making the toilet space more engaging and welcoming. Recommendations include allowing the child to sit and be themselves with snacks, books, toys, a bookshelf or toy shelf, iPad use, colored lighting, and music to create a positive, low-pressure experience.
The last thing you want is that your child hates the place, okay? If they've struggled with you inside the toilet, you have to undo it, okay? It's not always about forcing the child to do something by, you know, getting them on it and then whatever. Even if you reward them at the end of the experience, you're also rewarding him struggling, okay? That's not a good thing. So what I would say is to get rid of this defensiveness, you have to make the toilet somewhere a little more, how to say, engaging, a little more welcoming that they can sit in, have a snack, read something, play with toys and just be themselves and have a have a good time, right? So sometimes we even go as far as creating a bookshelf, a toy shelf, giving them the iPad inside of the toilet, turning the lights to another color, playing some music with a Bluetooth speaker.
