Reviews - Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

Helpful, easy to read. She spends a lot of time assuaging parental doubt from every angle, which helped me feel more confident. The information is easy to translate to others.

meghanvestal's review against another edition

4.0

informative lighthearted medium-paced

argriffy's review against another edition

3.0

Ehhhhh okay overall. I don't love that the author relentlessly talked about how her method is basically the best out there. I know it works for lots of kids, but I think if this were universally true, everyone would use it for potty training.

Def agree with the other commenters talking about the heteronormativity, but that's pretty common in a lot of the parenting books I read.

Did I use this method with my daughter? Honestly, not fully. We kinda freestyled it, and I read this book about a week into it. I'll keep some tips in mind, but I've already done things "wrong" and my daughter is doing pretty well. I do think parents need to do what works best. She admits this in certain sections but definitely brags about her methods in others.

Overall, pretty decent.

ambergamgee's review against another edition

3.0

Like other readers have stated, this book needs a massive edit. She could have passed this info on to us busy parents in a fraction of the words. She goes on a lot of tangents, many of which are unrelated. She has no business giving general parenting advice or nutrition advice in this book (I rolled my eyes so hard when she went on a pro-paleo diet tangent saying her toddler is “angelic” eating paleo 😒) Also it’s kind of ridiculous that she’s anti arbitrary rewards (ie: sticker charts) but pro arbitrary punishments (she recommends taking toys away when they’re having too many accidents). Rewards and punishments are 2 sides of the same coin. That’s psychology (especially child psychology) 101.
All that said, the actual potty training info is very helpful. I don’t plan to follow her method to the T but will take a lot of tips and info from her.

lyneslibrary's review against another edition

3.0

I’ll give this more stars if it actually works lol

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