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

Tantrums are due to your child wanting something—anything—and you not giving it.

potty training is easiest when done between the ages of twenty and thirty months.

This whole thing is about progress, not perfection. What we are going to be doing is bringing your child’s awareness from Clueless to I Peed to I’m Peeing to I Have to Go Pee. That’s it. Each segment can take roughly a day. Some kids cruise through one component and stall out on another.

End result: A successful completion of Block One should look something along the lines of your child, while naked, can sit to pee and poop on the potty. This can be because you prompted, you led him, or he went on his own.

Don’t slip into bribery. You will end up with a power struggle.

It’s important to remember that a lot of kids don’t yet know how to manipulate their clothing.

Have your child carry the little pot to dump in the big toilet. This is the reward.

start having your child dress themselves.

this is the first case in which you’re teaching and he’s learning something that must take place in a certain order and for which there really is only one “right” outcome.