FOX – Filter Out X#$&%. What children watch is often worthless, at best. At its worst, television undermines everything we teach as it spews foul language, violence, casual attitudes about sex, and disrespect for authority. Our family uses TV Guardian to help with language. The other negative elements are impossible to remove, which is why television has an ‘off’ button.

NBC – Note Basic Content. Teach your kids to evaluate a program by its main premise. “Aladdin” is one of my favorite movies, but it quite frankly glorifies being a thief. Gentle “E. T.” leaves impression that adults aren’t to be trusted, and that dishonesty is justified when its purposes are noble. After watching a show, ask, “What did that movie just say? Was it a positive message or a negative one? How did it try to influence you?”

CNN – Cultivate Natural iNquisitiveness. Try to broaden your world so that your children are interested in more than cartoons and sit-coms. Make friends with those from other cultures. Discuss world events. Travel and visit museums to pique interest in topics explored on The Discovery and History Channels.

BET – Be Exemplary Teachers. A student doesn’t rise above teacher. Set a good example to your children by developing good viewing habits. Participate in National TV Turnoff Week April 21 – 27, and evaluate how addicted to television you are.

Go ahead. Touch that dial. Adjust your family’s antenna away from television. The signal will be fuzzy at first, but over time, I think your reception will become a lot clearer. And may archaeologists of future find your home so devoid of influence of television that they identify you as a pagan.

5. Singing - Singing ditties with your child makes using potty fun, even for you. Whenever you go potty and your child is watching or within hearing range, begin to sing this ditty to tune of "Mary Had A Little Lamb". Most likely, your child will come into bathroom and want to watch and sing with you. Imitation will follow.

Where do we poop and pee poop and pee poop and pee Where do we poop and pee We poop and pee in potty.

7. Emotional Intelligence - Learning to be emotionally intelligent during this phase of your child's life, will prepare you magnificently for phases to come and will serve you well all way through teen years.

You may notice that it is one thing to promise yourself to be patient, tolerant and fun loving, and another matter to be it.

Let's pretend that your child sits on potty, pees, gets off, pulls up his pants, and within seconds, poos his pants. Might a flash of anger go through your body as your expectation is dashed?

You may be tempted to react allowing your anger to escalate and control you rather than you control it. Instead, FREEZE! Just like game we played as children, freeze and do absolutely nothing except feel your feelings. If you stay in your frozen state of animation, intensity of feeling will dwindle within 30 seconds. Then you make a choice to return to being patient, tolerant, and fun loving. Yes, this takes practice and more practice particularly if you tend to be a bit reactive rather than proactive.

8. Lighten Up! Surrender Agenda - Give up expectation that your child must do things a certain way. Children are so creative and they may come up with ways of doing things that "work" but just not way you thought they "should". One mom said that her child used potty chair as a helmet prior to using it for its intended use. Be willing to learn from children. They are little geniuses. When you hear voice in your head saying "need to", "should", "must", "have to", begin to recognize that these are thoughts that set you up for inflexibility, keeping you stuck and ultimately increasing stress. I "choose to", "want to", "desire to", "like to", "am inspired to", I'd "be happy to", changes way we feel about what we are doing. The words we choose to use, either drag us down or lighten us up.

9. Let's Read - There are so many books for you to read with you child related to learning to use potty. Visit www.pottytrainingcoach.com for a listing. Reading books with your child prepares him to learn how to read himself as well as use potty.

10. Celebrating Successes - There is an old but true saying, "What you focus on expands". With this saying in mind, if you focus on what your child is doing "right" what will you get more of? Yes. More of what you want. If you focus on what you child is doing wrong, what will you get more of? Right again. More of what you don't want. Focus on your child's successes as well as your own. Don't hesitate to praise yourself so your child can hear you. "I did such a good job". "I like way I did that". A healthy, fun potty learning phase will boost your child's self-esteem (and your's) , fill him with feelings of accomplishment, and give her confidence. CELEBRATE adventure of Potty Training.!