potty chart
Syllables: pott·y chartUK/ˈpɒti.tʃɑːt//ˈpɑdi.t͡ʃɑɹt/
potty chart noun: a calendar chart that tracks a child's progress during toilet training.
Noun
potty chart (plural potty charts)
- A calendar chart that tracks a child's progress during toilet training.
- H&S Hardware Store will present baby with a porcelain sanitary diaper pail and Schottenstein's Department Store, a potty chart.1959 January 8, “Bradley J. Hafey Is First 1959 Baby Born In The South Side”, in South Side Leader, volume VII, number 42, page 1
- Establish routine based on timing for individual child. Initially, a potty chart may be helpful. Note different mannerisms of child's expressing needs.1972 April, East San Gabriel Valley School, An Educational Program for Multi-Handicapped Children, Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools Communications Center, page 94
Examples of potty chart in a sentence
- I'll get to count the time I put in just hanging around – waiting for my baby daughter to finish playing in the bubbles of her bath – for the toddler to wet so he can get a star on his potty chart.1984 April 18, Sharon Morrey, “What did I do today? Don't ask!”, in American Fork Citizen (Tidbits), page 2:
- A potty chart is better as a child-directed activity than as a parent reward system because it gives your child personal ownership over his success.2007, Karen Deerwester, The Potty Training Answer Book: Practical Answers to the Top 200 Questions Parents Ask, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page...
- Success sticker charts, or potty charts, work really well for toilet training and really help kids to feel special!2010, Shelly Vaziri Flais, Raising Twins: From Pregnancy to Preschool, American Academy of Pediatrics, →ISBN, page 136:
- After I completed my tasks Spider Dick would place a happy face sticker in the color of my choosing on a repurposed child's potty chart that he had named Alma's Chart of Eternal Happiness.2023, Chelsea Bieker, Heartbroke (Science-fiction), Catapult Books, →ISBN, page 11:
Forms of potty chart
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Origin of potty chart
From potty (“a small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train young children”) + chart (“a tabular presentation of data; a table”).
Words that rhyme with potty chart
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Questions about potty chart
- What does potty chart mean?
- Potty chart means a calendar chart that tracks a child's progress during toilet training.
- How do you use potty chart in a sentence?
- I'll get to count the time I put in just hanging around – waiting for my baby daughter to finish playing in the bubbles of her bath – for the toddler to wet so he can get a star on his potty chart.
- What part of speech is potty chart?
- Potty chart is a noun.
- How do you pronounce potty chart?
- Potty chart is pronounced /ˈpɒti.tʃɑːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of potty chart?
- The plural of potty chart is potty charts.
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