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A parent 'nagging' about ISC schedules and your child's forgetfulness can lead to many conflicts. It helps if you can find tricks that help your child remember when it's time to perform ISC.
It's important to try and adapt the scheduled times for emptying your child's bladder to their daily lifestyle. Maybe it can be done in connection with other activities, for example meals and snacks.
Today, many children use their mobile phones as reminders.
At school, you should schedule ISC to fit in with your child's curriculum. The schedule should always be easily accessible to your child, not at the bottom of their schoolbag along with other sheets of paper concerning field trips and parent-teacher meetings.
Having teaching assistants who are 'living clocks' and who remind your child every time they need to empty their bladder does not allow your child to develop responsibility or confidence in their own abilities. So becoming independent at the toilet is a task that begins when your child is still very young.
It is a long journey and there are sure to be many obstacles along the way. Seeing your child grow with responsibility and learning to trust their own ability makes it all worthwhile. For your child, knowing that they can go to the toilet independently, can go to a friend's house after school, to a sleepover or even camping gives them independence.
Feeling independent is a strength that also builds your child's self-esteem and self-confidence.
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