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Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
Jamie Glowacki
3.74 AVERAGE
693 reviews for:
Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
Jamie Glowacki
3.74 AVERAGE
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Stopped after technique & did not listen to chapters on potential problems, since we haven't started potty training yet.
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Original review from Nov 2021: I read this several weeks after starting potty training my 29 month old. If I’d read it last year, I would have started earlier. The author exudes confidence that a 20-month-old can be potty-trained and that you don’t have to worry too much about regressions after adding a baby to the family. Maybe we’ll start earlier with our second.
With that said, we used a similar “ditch the diaper” method but didn’t find it necessary to go naked or commando as Glowacki insists to teach peeing in the toilet. I liked that our son learned taking off his shorts and underwear as part of potty training, although it did cause extra stress at the beginning when I wanted him to do it independently.
Five stars for all the tips and confidence. One star for the extremely informal writing tone (just not my style) and repetition (how many times do we need reminding that children have been wearing diapers since just minutes after birth?) and the bashing of parents who potty train after the magical “window” of 20-30 months. It made me feel good about my decision to potty train now but all the talking down to others makes me hesitate to recommend the book to other parents.
(I read the ebook.)
2nd review from June 2023: 2nd reading, June 2023. Thanks to the confidence I gained from reading this book 1.5 years ago, we started potty training with our second much earlier (23 months), but it’s not going nearly as swimmingly as it did with our first. Once again, I’m reading this book a few weeks after starting potty training, but this time I made lots of highlights of areas we might have gone wrong and tips to try. I had forgotten there was a chapter on night-training, so I’ll be returning to the book sooner than later to tackle that (Glowacki says to make sure to do it by 3.5).
Some helpful stuff I took note of this time around:
-Most parents go wrong by rushing, not promoting, or (most common) over-prompting. Don’t prompt more than once per half hour. Never ever cajole or plead with your child to pee.
-After you prompt, give them space to make a good choice for themselves. At some point during the process, you have to hand over control to your child.
-If, several weeks into potty training, your child is still having 1 or more accidents a day, start over with potty training from Block 1 (going naked).
-If accidents are a result of bad behavior and not cluelessness, try small consequences, like putting away the toy they were playing with for an hour.
-Toileting properly is expected behavior and shouldn’t be overly rewarded. The problem with rewards and potty training is that you need to keep upping the reward for it to be effective.
This second time, I listened to the audiobook (the ebook has a long hold time). Once again, 5 stars for content and 1 star for the delivery.
With that said, we used a similar “ditch the diaper” method but didn’t find it necessary to go naked or commando as Glowacki insists to teach peeing in the toilet. I liked that our son learned taking off his shorts and underwear as part of potty training, although it did cause extra stress at the beginning when I wanted him to do it independently.
Five stars for all the tips and confidence. One star for the extremely informal writing tone (just not my style) and repetition (how many times do we need reminding that children have been wearing diapers since just minutes after birth?) and the bashing of parents who potty train after the magical “window” of 20-30 months. It made me feel good about my decision to potty train now but all the talking down to others makes me hesitate to recommend the book to other parents.
(I read the ebook.)
2nd review from June 2023: 2nd reading, June 2023. Thanks to the confidence I gained from reading this book 1.5 years ago, we started potty training with our second much earlier (23 months), but it’s not going nearly as swimmingly as it did with our first. Once again, I’m reading this book a few weeks after starting potty training, but this time I made lots of highlights of areas we might have gone wrong and tips to try. I had forgotten there was a chapter on night-training, so I’ll be returning to the book sooner than later to tackle that (Glowacki says to make sure to do it by 3.5).
Some helpful stuff I took note of this time around:
-Most parents go wrong by rushing, not promoting, or (most common) over-prompting. Don’t prompt more than once per half hour. Never ever cajole or plead with your child to pee.
-After you prompt, give them space to make a good choice for themselves. At some point during the process, you have to hand over control to your child.
-If, several weeks into potty training, your child is still having 1 or more accidents a day, start over with potty training from Block 1 (going naked).
-If accidents are a result of bad behavior and not cluelessness, try small consequences, like putting away the toy they were playing with for an hour.
-Toileting properly is expected behavior and shouldn’t be overly rewarded. The problem with rewards and potty training is that you need to keep upping the reward for it to be effective.
This second time, I listened to the audiobook (the ebook has a long hold time). Once again, 5 stars for content and 1 star for the delivery.
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When you are ready to potty train your child. Wait, and make time to read this cover to cover. We followed this "by the book" and our newly 2yr old boy was potty trained within a week. It is not as harsh as those "3 day methods". I liked that she describes the process in "learning blocks" instead of days. It takes the pressure off and there was no thinking "oh no its day 4 and my child should be doing this and this but isn't yet." If your child gets "stuck" its easy to just repeat a "block" or go back a step or two. Her style might be too direct and no-nonsense for some, but it worked perfectly for us.
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