Toilet Training: A Practical Guide to Daytime and Nighttime Training (Paperback)

by Vicki Lansky (Author) "The days of hand-hemmed, hand-washed, line-dried diapers are gone-thank goodness..." (more)
Key Phrases: adapter seat, nighttime control, potty book, Bear's New Potty, Practical Parenting, Once Upon (more...)

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Product Description
Vicki Lansky’s bible on toilet training offers sound advice, time-tested wisdom from experts and parents, and helpful resource information. To delight and encourage little ones, attached on the inside back cover is the removable children's storybook KoKo Bear's New Potty.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: The Book Peddlers; 3rd edition (December 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916773647
• ISBN-13: 978-0916773649
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #303,071 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A first-rate resource for new parents, January 4, 2003

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Now in a completed revised and updated edition, Toilet Training by Vicki Lansky is a first-rate resource for new parents on the art of teaching toddlers how to take care of themselves in the bathroom. Step-by-step instructions, wisdom from experts, advice on the question of whether to use potty chairs or adapters, means to deal with bed wetting, and more fill this pages of this welcome, necessary, and "user friendly" guidebook. A bonus children's book, "Koko Bear's New Potty," is included for reading aloud to one's toddler to help him or her become used to the transition. Also very highly recommended are Vicki Lansky's earlier parenting guides, Feed Me! I'm Yours (Meadowbrook; ISBN: 0671884433); Games Babies Play: From Birth To Twelve Months (Book Peddlers; ISBN: 0916773582); and Practical Parenting Tips: Over 1,500 Helpful Hints For The First Five Years (Meadowbrook; ISBN: 0671792059).

5.0 out of 5 stars What a Releaf!, October 7, 2003

By A Customer

Being a new mother, this book has been a big help! My husband and I have found Ms. Lansky's advice to be very sensible as well as benificial to both us and our daughter. This book was recommed to me by a friend. and I would pass this information on to anyone I know with children.

19 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Offensive and irresponsible, November 12, 2005

By	Paige's Mum "Jamie" (McDonald, PA) - See all my reviews

I found this book to be offensive. On page 2, the author acknowledges the language differences of the process (toilet training vs. toilet learning). As a reader, I understood her position and was comfortable to progress onto further pages. As I continued reading, I was content with the author's writing until I accessed Chapter 4, where she discusses the positions of experts and references some of their works. On page 47, she references the controversial book of "Toilet Training in Less Than a Day," by Nathan Azrin, Ph.D. and Richard Foxx, Ph.D. and that their "program was devised not for speed, but to help the retarded learn this difficult skill." I think the term "mentally challenged" or "developmentally challenged" would have been more appropriate. In spite of my shock that someone would write a book and refer to those with special needs as "retarded", I continued on until I accessed Chapter 6, "How Can I Train My Child Under Special Circumstances?" Under the section "Using Public Restrooms Alone", the author discusses what she considers "supervised" use of facilities. She states that a parent can stand outside the door while the child uses the facilities alone. She states that a parent can "ask an appropriate-looking man to take the boy into the restroom while you wait outside the door. (Same for situations with girls, Dad.)" and to "only let a child alone to one that is in shouting distance or in view." In a world where pedophiles are lurking in such areas and seize those moments when a child is alone to harm them, I find that advice to be completely irresponsible. At that point, I could no longer continue reading this book and take advice from someone who would make such irresponsible suggestions. I would rather have my child in diapers for the rest of her life! Over 275,000 copies sold -- I wonder how many of those were returned, as mine was.