How Toilet Training can affect your Child's behavior and Personality????

 

"Parents are our First Teacher and Home is our First School" it's a very common belief. Have you ever thought that the training which you give to your child in early days of their Life can affect their Latter Stages of their life?

 It can alter their ways of Thinking, Behavoir and can even modify their Personality?

Toilet Training is the teaching where  parents demonstrate ways to help their child learn ways to defecate. Toilet training usually starts at the early age range from 18 months to 3 Years. 

Now You might be thinking that you all have undergone this stage and somewhere someone might be training their child to defecate, then 

• How could your or your child's  behavior dependent on it??
•     Whether its affecting in Good or Bad ways??                         
• And most importantly,  how come you have not noticed any behavioral change in your child?? 

  Well here's the answer to your queries. It has affected your child's behavior not only your Child but after reading the latter context You can also match some of your behavior traits that can be related to your Toilet Training.

According to Psychosexual Developmental Theory given by Sigmund Freud states that "The major task in the Anal Stage(18 months-3 Years) is gaining Independance and control with particular focus on the "Excretory Function" which implies that the ways and techniques which Parents use on their child while toilet training affects their behavior as the child learns Independance and Control during this stage and if the child learns anything incorrectly then his or her behavior will be adversely affected.  

           Sigmund Freud divided the training in 2 phases:

1. Anal-Retentive Personality:  If the parents have Early started the Toilet training i.e before 18 months or If the parents have given Harsh Training then the child is more likely to develop Anal-Retentive Personality.                                                                                  Characteristics of Anal-Retentive Personality:                                          Obsessively tidy and clean.               Intolerant to those who aren't.         Punctual.                                              Very Careful.                                         Stingy.                                                     Obstinate.                                             Witholding.                                         Meticulous.                                        Passive aggressive                                                                              
2. Anal-Expulsive Personality: If the parents were too liberal during the toilet training the child likely to develop Anal-Expulsive Personality.       

Characteristics of Anal-Expulsive        Personality:                                                   Excessively Sloppy.                                     Disorganized.                                              Reckless.                                                      Careless.                                                        Defiant.                                                          

Conclusion:

    In this above context we got the information regarding How Toilet Training affects Your child's Personality. If not given attention or care towards it how behavoral and Personality alterations can affect your child.

Anything Over or Under its limit leads to Maladaptive Behavior. 

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