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Potty Training my 35 month old
Hi,
I decided to buy this book b/c we have another child on the way and it is in our best interest to have our soon to be 3- year- old potty trained. The book was helpful. It is a little lengthy but I am all about books when it comes to my child. The book is a little intense and I didn't follow everything it said to do. I am a stay at home mom and have plenty of time to train him without being as intense as the book. We certainly were not potty trained in a day because of this and that didn't bother me. This is a good book to have and it is a great freedom to be out of diapers.
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Your kid CAN do it!
This is how potty training should be done. You TEACH your child how to do it - in a POSITIVE way spending ALL your attention on the teaching of the child. If your child can complete all the preliminary tests in this book, then he/she is ready to be potty trained. It is an intense day of teaching and learning but your child will love it.
You will be SO proud and amazed at your child's ability to learn so quickly. It's incredible. My daughter is 2 years 8 months old. She had literally never ever sat on a potty or toilet before yesterday at 7:30am. By this morning at 11am, she walked past me in the kitchen, walked in the bathroom, pulled down her pants, pooped on the potty, wiped herself with toilet paper (albiet not well and in the front,notback) pulled up her pants, dumped her potty cup in the toilet, replaced the potty cup to the potty, flushed the toilet, washed and dried her hands, came over to me in the kitchen and said, "I did it!" and gave me a high five! I sware - all true. She is so very proud of herself, and I am proud of her. All she needed was the instruction on how to do it.
YOU have to be ready to take it on 100%. Spend the time getting ready. Buy training pants, a potty and snacks. Get the other kids out of the house for the day. Shut the computer, turn off the phone and give your kid 100% of your attention for the day. Your child can do it if you are willing to put the effort in.
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This is the most sensible system I've ever seen.
I used this book in the early eighties to toilet-train both my daughters, successfully.
Although the method is mega-labour-intensive, it worked both times.
The key was that both my girls were old enough to understand the process and took pride in their new skill. Both were two years old and had been dry in the morning for some time before we attempted to train.
The goal is for the child to be able to handle all stages themselves, from knowing that they have to use the potty, be able to handle pulling their new underwear down, then up, and empty the potty into the toilet, flush it and replace the potty in the potty-chair. At the end of the training NO diapers are ever put on the child. They sleep in regular underwear the first night, hence the need for them to be waking up dry.
I recommend this book absolutely and am continually amazed at all the parents who spend months and months toilet-training their children when ONE DAY was certainly effective for both my kids.
It was certainly an intense day though, feeding them salty snacks, lots of water and repeating the steps of the process, guiding them through and then...................success!!!
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Fantastic
I am a psychologist and mother of a 20 month old. As a psychologist I can tell you that the foundation for this book is excellent and the research is very accurate and easy to digest. As a mom I love it. My daughter is on the young side for this (I am due with our second soon so am eager to get her started) so we are not using the book exactly but it is still working really well. The ideas like reinforcement and using praise from others (grandpa will be so proud) are very effective and i have been using them to get her to do lots of other things like nap by herself and walk independently down the stairs (she liked to be carried but I'm getting too big). I think this book is fantastic.
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Didn't Work For My Child
The techniques in this book didn't work for my child. It may be do to my error. We did successfully potty train by trail and error. When he figured out that he didn't like the wet feeling of "going" in big boy underwear, he started making it to the potty in time.