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Summary: Highly recommended!
Review: I am so thankful for having read this book! I have used this book with my second child at 2 1/2 and she was trained in a day with NO nighttime bedwetting! I'm planning on using it with my third and fourth children as well. My sisters-in-law have borrowed my copy of this book and had similar successes. This is the one book I recommend to other mothers who are preparing to potty train their children.
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Summary: This method works!
Review: I used this method with both of my children (who are now 24 and 25) and I am buying a copy for my daughter to use with my granddaughter. It really, really works - and yes, it works in a day. Just follow the guidelines to a "T" and even a toddler can do this! This grandma HIGHLY recommends the book.
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Summary: It does work!
Review: Unlike many other books on child rising, this one is short, to the subject and no-nonsense. I used the method on my daughter when she was 27 months old, and had full success. That was some 13 years ago... I have recommended the book ever since to anybody who brought up the subject, and I'm here at this site looking it up for yet another worried father. Other readers' comments are true: yes it's a little condescending, yes the advice on dealing with accidents is exaggerated (we didn't use it either), but why nit-pick when the method works so well and when the child comes out of this happy and in control, rather than traumatized?
I was (still am) a working mother, busy, hurried and worried about every issue. I was used with professional successes and was unprepared for the numerous uncertainties of child rising. This book brought some sense in a seemingly complicated issue. It was not complicated!
I took a Friday off, prepared to stick with it for three days if necessary, and wanting to have time to reinforce it before the return to daycare Monday. My daughter never had an accident after that Friday, and dry nights followed shortly. I wish everything would be so simple!
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Summary: This was a Godsend
Review: This method worked for us with our 3 1/2 year old girl who just wasn't getting it. She followed the toilet training of the doll with great interest, and liked the drill of the dry pants check followed by practice. She was pottying independently in 3 hours and showed great pride. I liked the emphasis on dry pants rather than whether the child is "good" or "bad". The book gave me the exact (non angry)language I needed to communicate with her too. I did find the amount of practice the author requires after an accident to be too much, but of course my daughter is 3 1/2, so she understood without much drill. I HIGHLY recommend this book for the late potty trainer!
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Summary: It worked for me!
Review: I used Toilet Training in Less Than a Day on both of my kids, when each of them was 2.25 years old, and actually trained each one (except for nighttime bedwetting) in less than a day. In addition, the methods used left them feeling really proud of their accomplishment. A few warnings, though: (1) book has something of a condescending tone, (2) amount of practicing required after an accident was WAY too much for my kids (I reduced it considerably), and (3) book is unrealistic about how early to potty train. You can potty train at 20 months (as the book suggests) only if you are content never to leave the house. There is no way to get a kid that age to go BEFORE s/he feels the need--like, when you're leaving the house and are going to be away from a toilet for a long time. 27 months is more realistic. For me, though, the book was a lifesaver. I didn't mind diapers, but I was REALLY not looking forward to the stage of having the kids in panties, and yet not being able to rely on them being dry. (How much upholstered furniture does the average family lose during this period, anyway?) The day that I taught them was exhausting, but it really was all over in one day
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Summary: This is a well written book, easy to read and follow
Review: This book is well written and easy to understand. It gives a new approach to an old problem just make sure you read where the method came from, if you think you are going to actually potty train a TODDLER in a day wake up and smell the coffee, this method was originally intended for un-toilet trained mentally retarded adults. Please don't think I am saying this doesn't work, it does just dont expect it in a day. ( Unless you are trying to train an adult
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Summary: The worst book ever
Review: This book has taken being a mean parent to a new level. It says to force a child to pee and poop! Yeah as it is possible to drag a child to the toliet. I think this books should be banned and never allowed to be read again. The quack who wrote this book says to make your child eat and drink so they pee and poop no realistic at all. If you follow this book like I tried you will be potty training for 2 years since I got off to such a bad start.
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Summary: Trained my daughter prior to her 2-year birthday!
Review: After hearing stories from my mother (and others of her generation) about how in the 'olden days' children were *routinely* toilet-trained before their 2nd birthday, I decided to ignore today's "experts" and go ahead and give it a shot. I did it when my daughter was about 22 months old. I read this book, and it (1) sounded a lot like the method my mother told me she used, and (2) sounded like it was just plain common sense. I followed the basic approach of the book and my daughter successfully used the potty chair the first day we tried it. After her success, she understood the concept and following the first week of training she had fewer than 5 daytime accidents in the years following! Don't let the 'experts' convince you to wait until your child is 'ready'! There is a reason that the twos are called 'terrible' while the ones are not ... the average 1.5-year-old is very cooperative and eager to learn, while the average 2.5-year-old is busy showing you how independent they can be so they will not be as willing to do what you ask them to.
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Summary: Great Method With Adjustments
Review: Like every other parenting book, this one assumes it can work with every child. We found the basic theory and idea to be extremely useful, but in only 10 minutes into training realized we would have to make adjustments to fit our child. I would recommend reading this book and using it as the foundation for developing your own personalized training.
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Summary: Toilet Training in Less Than A Day
Review: I have used this book for 4 out of my 5 children. It was recomended to me by a mother who used it to train all 4 of her boys, including a set of twins! It is a life saving technique! My first child was miserable with our "training" period which lasted months! This book breaks down every step of toileting into a sequence of learning expereinces. This book is a compilation of methods developed for use with mentally disabled adults.
I am the Toddler Parenting Instructor at a local Pregancy Resource Center and I teach this method to our clients in a three hour workshop. I have recieved wonderful feedback. The only ones who encounter struggles are those parents who have failed in establishing solid bounderies in their homes. So, we do some "Nanny" triage to help them first establish order in the home then proceed with the traing after a second readiness test is applied.
The readiness test at the beginning of the book is to be taken very seriously. If your child fails just one step of the test, you will not be successful with this method until he/she is able to master those skills in the test. The best age to start: 2 1/2. So relax until then. My 5th child, Jenna trained in 2 hours (I have the chart documentation to prove it). All my other children "helped" her that day as her cheerleaders!
This book needs to read a couple of times before you start, so you are very familiar with the sequence. This will be the longest day of that year, but it is worth every minute for the rest of your parenting career!
If you are serious about trainnig your toddler in all areas of life skills, than this is one of those instruction books that should have been delivered by the stork the day they were born!
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