3 Day Potty Training - West Des Moines,IA

We used it and loved it. My son was older, but I wish I would have known about it at 23 months. I would recommend it. Feel free to email me if you want more information.

I am a childcare provider who has struggled for years with parents and toilet training.

A parent approached me last fall with this...I read it and was game for the adventure. To me the best part of it was the commitment a parent has to show to this (and from my point of view, not just having an expectation for the care provider to do alot of this process with the child since they spend so many waking hours with the child too). So Potty Boot Camp!

This child was 28 month old..had never showeed one lick of interest to me prior. But he is asmart cookie so the adventure began! And it was a rough road...but after their 3 days at home..and decent first week here at childcare (I remember about a half dozen total accidents awake and asleep)...but Mom was very stressed so decided to offer diapers again for night time...too much stress....so they scaled back to that at night...but only underwear here all day. We almost never had another accident, napping or awake, and after a few weeks of the night diapers, they also got rid of those.

I also now have another family who decided to do this method...with their 22 month old. Its worked fantastically, but again, products are being used for the long nighttime sleep. Some #2 accidents are happening...but for the age...I am OK with that.

I am NEVER asking these children if they need to go. They tell me every single time. That frst week or 2, it was alot of me needing to watch for their body language and signals...it wasn't always words, but a whining or a face scrunching right before they pee'd or similar and me catching that and helping them to remember to verbalize it. It was a quick progression to being trained.

I will , from now on, be enouraging and "pushing" all my clients to consider this method.

Good luck!

God luck! When our son was showing interest - around 20 months - we tried to stay consistent but he was not ready. We literally stopped potty training at home and he quit using diapers - cold turkey - the day of his 3rd birthday. He did it in his time. Just be patient and keep everything positive - he'll get it in his time!

I have not heard of this book. I used the "Babywise" method. You can get it from your library, by Dr. Gary Ezzo. They have a book called "On Becoming Toddlerwise" which covers it, or they have a Pottywise book too. The info in the Toddlerwise edition is sufficient. I did not want to use Pull Ups AT ALL, and I didn't want to drag it on and on. My daughter was 28 months. I think 3 days is VERY optimistic, but that's what this book says is possible. It was about 2 weeks til I would say I was confident that she was "trained." It's basically a "cold turkey" method. Clear your schedule, then eat, sleep, breathe, live potty training. that's all you do, is focus on that. It was a trying first week, but it got better every day. This book also talks about how to tell if your child is ready.

the only think that did not work according to this method, was that my daughter (still) does not like being asked or told to go potty. i had to wait til she was ready, and if she started going, i just put her on. now, she knows that we go before nap, bed, and before we leave the house...but, she did better with waiting til she felt she had to go. after a few days, i trusted that she would tell me and that was ok.

good luck!

My friend emailed me the e-book. She says that she has 3 friends that have done it successfully. I'm going to use it the next time that I have a three day weekend. :)

It worked well for us. We did the potty party and had her show the doll how to do it. We still had night time accidents, but only a half dozen or so during the day over a couple of months. It helped a lot when we went to the store to let her pick her own underpants (in the next size up because she felt like she couldn't get the proper size down fast enough).

I just put my kid on the potty and trained her. No books. She made it.

I trained my son is 3 days, didn't know there was a book about it! All it takes is consistency and time. He was completely out of pullups at night and naptime by the 7th day. Since I trained mine in that amount of time, it's definitely possible so I say go for it