Potty Training - Highland,NY

When my oldest daughter (now 10 yrs.) began potty training, I checked out videos and books at the library. This gave me a little insight into what type of learning style she favored , and offered her a wide variety of visuals all with the common potty training theme. Good luck!!

The Potty Train book can be found at http://www.toysofdiscovery.com

I never did books or videos. The chair l really loved was one from IKEA for $4!!! It's more oval shaped which helped keep the splatter down from when my son went pee. And the shortness of it I think helped with pooping as he was kinda in a squat position which I think helped with pushing. I think the small Baby Bjorn is very similar to it too. I did have one that converted to a step stool and at toilet reducer but it was round and pee would leak under the dump cup and end up in the base of it and you had to take it all apart to clean it which was a pain!

After my son got a bit older, I just got a soft seat reducer for him to sit on. He was 2 when we started and 2 1/2 when he was trained.

Good luck!
S.

I also used a seat that fit over our toilet - it was much easier and he understood it better then a potty seat. My sister used a potty seat and it took forever for her kids to use the regular toilet.
I did not use any books.
Good Luck

Hope this link helps! Good luck!

http://www.theskinnyscoop.com/search/potty+training?utm_c...

I potty-trained my son directly on the toilet by using a toilet ring and a footstool. I find it's by far the easiest way to do it: no mess, no cleaning, and then no transition from potty to regular toilet.

As for book, I trained him in less than a day (for real), with the book Toilet Training in Less Than a Day, by Nathan Azrin (http://www.amazon.com/Toilet-Training-Less-Than-Day/dp/06... on amazon).

It was written in the 70's in British English, so some of the wording is odd or a tad sexist, but it works amazingly well. It was a lot of fun for my son to do, no tears, no pressure, and by the end of the day he was indeed toilet-trained - and able t go by himself!

He refused to do a #2 in the toilet for a couple of weeks (he didn't have a bowel movement when we did the training) but he would ask for a pull-up, we'd put it on, then put it off when he was done, and that was it.

Since then I've recommended it to quite a few moms I know, and all have had similar experiences - minus the #2 issue, it seems my son was an exception in that, most kids were going for everything by the end of the day. You do have to follow the method pretty exactly, though. A couple of mothers wanted to be creative and changed some parts of it, and it didn't work as well.