Toilet Training Without Tears: 7

My son was having a very very hard time potty training at nearly 4... I was at wits end when I bought this book.. and thank goodness I did! It gave very practical, real-life advice, and more importantly OPTIONS! This book gives several different methods and you can decide which is most appropriate for your child! I found that having my son clean up after himself (he had gotten to where he was pooping in his pull-ups and demanding to be changed immediately) and took him out of pull-ups and put him in undies all the time. We stopped giving rewards and started treating it as something totally natural as one of the methods recommends, and it worked!!! Very informative. I believe a different method will work with my younger son and plan to use a different technique in this book.

We found this book extremely helpful in getting our 3 and a half year old daughter to finally use the toilet for her bowel movements. After less than one week of practicing the "desensitization" method our daughter was successful. We also found the suggestions for bedwetting very informative and have relied on the appendix to further guide our research on this topic and to help us find retailers from which to purchase equipment to aid us in eliminating bedwetting. The book provides an excellent overview for different methods of toilet training and addresses age specific problems and offers age appropriate solutions.