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Potty Train Your Baby

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The only people giving her one star are people trying to train TODDLERS!! This is potty training for babies, and it DOES WORK. If you follow her advice and you are willing to spend the time, it will work. My son is 21 months old. I started him on the potty as soon as he could sit up (about 6 months old.) He picked it up very quickly. At 14 months I started letting him go bare-bottomed in my house (since he can't pull his own pants down yet.) Now, when we're home, he uses the potty for pee-pee and poo-poo. If he has a diaper on when we're not at home, he does go pee-pee in it, but I don't care about that because he ALWAYS goes poo-poo on the potty, and ONLY on the potty. I haven't changed a poopy diaper in at least 7 months. He can go pee-pee and sometimes poo-poo on demand. If I set him on the potty (big or little) he will go for me. I got this book when I was trying to potty train my daughter at 20 months. She also began using the potty, but not nearly as readily and not as reliably and it was just very frustrating (she was fully trained at 2 1/2 though). I believe the key is that you must start them before they know any different--before they want to test your limits and while they still want to please you. My son doesn't know any different. As far as he is concerned poo-poo goes on the potty and no where else. If you're one of those poeple who doesn't mind changing poopy diapers, then fine, don't use this method. But I am absolutely thrilled to be washing potties and not changing poopy diapers! I am so very thankful to Katie Van Pelt for writing this book so I didn't listen to all of those people who said I had to wait until they were 3 years old! Geeze!!

I started using this book when my son was 7 months old. He is now 22 months old and almost completely potty trained, without any fights, hassle or stress. The main thing about this book that is different from the others is that it sees potty training as something that takes 12-18 months, not something to be done in a weekend or two. Its premise is that you teach children all the necessary skills to using the potty so that when their body is ready, the skills are already there. This book does NOT claim that your child will (or should be) potty trained at 12 months of age. The book does point out that it is a much more difficult process to potty train a child who is 2+ and who has already reached the age of "NO"!

This book goes against the grain of popular thinking today that focuses on "toilet teaching" at a later age.

The gentle techniques proposed by the author follow a philosophy that a young baby can begin to develop control of muscles that are not yet fully developed themselves (which is consistent with other developmental processes like sitting-up and walking), and that teaching this control is quite effective at an age where the baby is more compliant to sitting on a potty than a two-year old would be.

My wife and I started toilet training our daughter at about 12 months. At 18 months she started wearing panties, and by 22 months was completely out of diapers. All without the frustrations and struggles that seem to be prevalent among our peers. We highly recommend the book.

This is a very easy to follow and practical book. My son just turned a year old, and he is doing great with this method. This is a longer term method, and it takes some effort, but he is actually having fun learning! The author makes a very good argument for early training, and then gives practical advice on how to go about it. I would definitely reccommend this book to someone who stays at home with their child and can put in the time this method requires. Potty training has actually been quite enjoyable for my son and me, not at all stressful or frustrating as I've heard it can be.

This book offers a positive approach for early potty training. I've just begun using the tecnique with my 12 mo. old, and she just loves it. After one week, she has already figured out that she can control her pee. And it's FUN!

This book was very helpful to me, and my 16 1/2 month old little girl. We are just getting ready to potty train her, but I wish I would have found this book sooner, it seems that I could have already have been done by now! Oh well! :) We are very excited and Aubrey loves sitting on her potty!!! Thanks so much! This book gave such good advice and was very helpful!

It truely is possible to train your baby/child early. This book is great and I recommend it to all new mothers. The library can't keep it on their shelves!!

If you are a parent experiencing a toddler who is resisting training, this is not the book for you. There is no consideration for developmental differences in children. Ms. Van Pelt's Theory is that if the parent "chooses" to toilet train early and follows her very-general guidelines, they are ensured success. This is not always the case. I began introducing the potty to my son at 12 months. I knew right away he was not ready for this next step in his development. He is now two and I admit, without shame, that he is still in diapers. Ms. Van Pelt draws mainly on her own successful experiences as a Mother of three. For many parents her guide will be enough to achieve success. For a parent experiencing the true challenge training can be this guide will not be enough. Try a book like "Keys to Toilet Training" by Meg Zweiback, R.N., C.P.N.P, M.P.H. Ms. Zweibach is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with twenty-five years of clinical experience. Her book is much more practical and informative.

The whole concept of the book is good, but no matter how well you stick to the plan a child will only potty train when they are ready, no matter how soon you start. There is a big difference between the child having the parent trained to put them on the potty at the right time, and the child actually being able to go to the potty on their own. I have had this book for months, and my daughter isn't any more potty trained now than she was before I read the book and followed it's advice....

I have been struggling trying to find a book to help this "uneducated" mommy potty train her two year old. This is the only book that I could find that deals with the subject as a whole (vs. a chapter in a book). I tried to read the entire book, but quickly skipped to the chapter that dealt with two-year olds. That chapter was informative (considering that I know nothing), but I disagree with the author's stance that all kids should begin the process when they are 12 months old. Come on!! The author based this on her own experiences, with little thought that all children are different and ready to start this process at different points. I was very disappointed because I have been criticized more times (by women my mother's generation) for not completing potty training by the time my child was 14 months old. After reading this book, I felt that I had been criticized again.