Drinking? What is the connection with Toileting Progress?

Charmaine Champ Author

This blog shares what the connection is between drinking and toileting progress and where to start in helping your child.

Life can be busy with school, appointments, work, things to do and places to go. It can feel like a juggling act at times with things we should do and things we can let slide from time to time. So, do we really need to think about drinking? Can`t we just let our children drink when they want to? Or, when they are thirsty? 

Lets have a look at what drinking is all about. 

Drinking helps the body to function properly. Drinking is responsible for:

• Carrying nutrients and oxygen to the cells in the body
• Flushing bacteria from the bladder
• Aiding digestion
• Preventing constipation
• Normalising blood pressure
• Cushioning joints
• Protecting organs and tissues
• Regulating body temperature
• Maintaining electrolyte (sodium) balance

Drinking has many different important roles to play within the body. Therefore needs to be an activity that we as a parent, consciously think about, with our children, throughout the day, through regular "check ins!"

It is recommended that children drink "6-8 cups" of drink each day.

There are other factors that can influence how many drinks are consumed each day. These include:

• Activity levels. If your child is losing water through sweat, drinking intake may need to be increased
• Vomiting. If your child is losing water through vomiting, the sodium and water levels both need to be increased.
• Outside temperatures. Drinking should be adjusted when the temperature rise outside as children may feel or be thirstier.
• Medications. Some medications can influence how drinks are absorbed within the body.

How does drinking connect with toileting?

Toileting accidents can occur in the day or night, when starting or trying to progress with toileting. One in twelve children are identified as experiencing PEE or Poo difficulties within the UK. What influence does drinking have on toileting?

When our children drink, as well as what our children drink, can influence how our children use the toilet.

Drinking can directly influence the frequency of wees passed in the day and night. Drinking can also directly influence the consistency and type of poos passed, as well as where they are passed.

Where do we start in helping our children at home and school? 

Children are able to start progressing with toileting when we review our childrens drinking, the number, the types and amount. 

We can start helping our children, by identifying and confirming "your" child's patterns. Keeping track and identifying "what" your child is drinking in the day or night, for three to four days is a really simple but effective way of identifying "what" influence drinking is having on your child's toileting progress. 

Click onto a brand new, FREE download here, to start:

• A FREE Download Where to start in getting the PEE or poo in the loo! 

The FREE download enables you to monitor what your child is drinking for the four days.



How can Clear Steps Consultancy help you further, with drinking and progressing with toileting? 

Charmaine, at Clear Steps Consultancy supports neurodiverse and neurotypical children, their families, schools, organisations, charities and professionals internationally, in encouraging drinking and progressing and being successful with Toileting. 

Charmaine is very excited to share a: Drinking Encouragement Pack to help children within the family home and school. The Drinking Encouragement Pack shares the tools and advice, to help and encourage children to drink throughout the day, because Charmaine understands that it is not easy to encourage drinking!

What`s included within the Drinking encouragement pack? The pack includes:

• Video support. Charmaine shares creative tips for encouraging drinking at home and school, confirming which drinks to encourage and which to avoid
• Booklet support. Charmaine shares further top tips for drinking, visually
• Buddy Cartoon Character Water Bottle. Your child has there very own water bottle to use at home and school

The Drinking Encouragement Packs will be available within the Clear Steps Consultancy Shop, and via messaging us. Click onto the website clicking onto "contact us" or "shop": www.clearstepsconsultancy.co.uk to start helping your child with their drinking and progressing with toileting.

Help and support is available! At every stage of the Drinking and Toileting Journey!

Looking forward to sharing more soon! 

Start helping your child, with their drinking today, to also help their progress with toileting! 

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