A review by kieranhealy
Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki

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Are you a suburban mom with a car and a back yard and can survive on solely your husband’s income? Then this book is for you! If you’re a single working mom, a dad who is present in their child’s life, live in an apartment, have few options for daycare, little vacation time, work holidays or are otherwise like 75% of America, then skip this disorganized garbage. This poorly organized, circumlocutory blog post actually asks parents to read a repetitive, 300 page book about POTTY TRAINING, then has the gall to recommend re-reading it. Harvey Karp wrote a similarly lengthy book about the entirety of toddlerhood, this writer could’ve managed to pare it down by 200 pages.

There are so many of these dilettantes in the child-rearing industry and it’s frustrating. I need help with a child, not weight loss or organization. Ugh.

Oh, and I forgot to mention she states things as true that are factually incorrect; uses personal anecdotes as proof writ large; at one point goes off on a tangent about how you can pee on yourself for clear skin (incorrect, not enough urea for effect, but she was a trapeze artist so, you know, dermatology expert!); dietary advice (go paleo or be a shitty parent!); provides no scientific evidence for anything; promotes diaper industry conspiracy theories; isn’t anywhere near as funny or entertaining as I’m sure she’s been told.

Did not finish. Maybe the system works. I don’t know. I’ll find a summary online.