Potty training your toddler can feel like a pretty daunting prospect, but one clever mum reckons she's got it down to a fine art.
Courtney Ryrie, who regularly shares motherhood-related content online, has now shared her "long-awaited three-day potty training video", and claims her go-to method works like a charm.
Mum-of-two Courtney says she managed to potty train her two-year-old son in just three days, all thanks to her 3P rule, which involves parents making sure to practice "persistence, patience, and praise".
In a video shared via TikTok, Courtney broke the method down for her followers to follow more easily, and issued a warning for those wanting to give it a go for themselves.
Courtney, who goes by the username @scottishcourt, revealed: "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 went on to advise that parents should begin by giving their toddler plenty of liquids to drink and placing them on the potty every ten minutes for the first day.
The savvy mum, who is originally from Scotland but now lives in Florida, explained: "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 continued: "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, it's important to make sure you're patient with your child, should they have any accidents during this all-important training period.
She emphasised: "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 gave sure to reward their little boy Kolsyn with Reese's Pieces each time he used the potty, and she's suggested other parents find their own ways of showing positive reinforcement.
She added: "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!"
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