Healthy habits start from a young age, and it’s never too early to teach your toddler to master the bathroom. Learning the basics of healthy hygiene can begin as soon as your child is old enough to hold a toothbrush or go on the potty. Even before my children used the “big bathroom” they were popping in and put seeing what mom and dad were doing in there. So we would always show them to wash up and good hygiene practices.
Together with Today’s Parent, P&G has created a handy chart to celebrate your child’s bathroom routine successes and get them excited. Simply post it in your bathroom and use a dry-erase marker so you can use the chart over and over each week. This helpful tool also comes with great tips and tricks to make the bathroom experience even easier. Here are some to help with your current routine:
- Get kids in the habit of good brushing – let them brush on their own first, then review to make sure no areas are missed! Find the right toothbrush for your little ones’ brushing stage. Oral-B Stages are made for their stage and make brushing fun with their favourite Bathroom Buddies characters by their side. For kids three and up, try Oral-B Pro-Health Stages Disney My Friends Tigger and Pooh Power Toothbrush or Oral-B Pro-Health Stages Disney Pixar Monsters Inc. Power Toothbrush.
- Make sure your little ones know that an essential part of the bathroom routine is cleaning up when you’re done. Teaching them the right way to wipe is especially important for girls. For their precious skin, find a soft bath tissue, like Charmin Ultra Soft, and teach them how much to use.
- Setting a routine for potty training is an important step for success. Visit the bathroom together after all meals and liquids, and before and after sleeps and going out. When your little one is ready, they can start the potty training journey with friends Dora and Diego on their Pampers Easy Ups, designed for all day training.
Are you a tech savvy mom? With help from Charmin, Pampers and Oral-B, Canada’s favourite parenting magazine, has developed a new tool – Today’s Parent Milestone App(for Apple devices) – helping moms track their little one’s progress on a smart phone or tablet*! In the app, an interactive “bathroom buddy” helps children learn their bathroom routines through fun games on potty training and brushing their teeth.
I remember how proud my children were when they did a lot of these things on their own.
Giveaway time!
I have a fabulous giveaway for one lucky Canadian reader.
P&G Bathroom Buddies prize pack! This giveaway is valued at$87(estimated retail cost) and will include:
- Pampers Easy Ups Boys 2T-3T – $24.99
- Pampers Easy Ups Girls 2T-3T – $24.99
- Pampers Sensitive Wipes – $4.99
- Charmin Ultra Soft – $9.99
- Today’s Parent with the Bathroom Buddies charts – $3.99
- Oral-B Pro-Health Stages Disney My Friends Tigger and Pooh Power Toothbrush – $8.99
- Oral-B Pro-Health Stages Disney Pixar Monsters Inc. Power Toothbrush – $8.99
By entering the following contest you are accepting that if you win your contact information will be shared with a P&G PR and shipping agency for the purpose of mailing your prize. Please allow 4-6 weeks from the contest closure date to receive your prize.
This giveaway may appear on other blogs as part of the #PGmom/#mamanPG program. However, to be fair, you can only win once per giveaway. If your name is chosen more than once, another winner will be selected. All winners must be from within Canada.
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We'll be staring potty training with our son soon…I anticipate it being messy
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need them for potty training
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Would love to win because we are just starting to potty train son!
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I will be teaching my grandson potty training so will need a little extra help.
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great for the kids
i would give this to my friend who has a little one
I'd love to win this because we're going to be starting potty training our toddler soon.
I'd love to win this P&G Bathroom Buddies prize pack for our son and daughter-in-law who have 3 wee ones under 4 years old! 😀
i love to win because im currently trying to potty train my lil guy
| would like to win this for my niece who wants to start training her son once he is comfortable with being a big brother to the new baby.
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for grand kids
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I would like to win this for a friend
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I donate to the shelter all the time and these would be very useful items.
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I want to win for my youngest son who is going to start potty training soon
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we are in the midst of potty training
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I would love to win this because we have a newborn baby coming soon.
My daughter is going through potty training right now 🙂 So this would be perfect!
This would definitely come in handy ion our house.
Such a great variety!
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Would be wonderful for Grandkids
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