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Potty Training for Dummies

Author(s): Diane Stafford, Jennifer Shoquist
Published In: 2002
Genre: Family & Relationships
Pages: 264

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Praise for Potty Training For Dummies!

"Potty Training For Dummies provides practical, nitty-gritty tips for dealing with the mother of all toddler challenges: potty training. This highly comprehensive book arms parents with the facts they need to make the transition from diapers to the toilet as stress-free as possible for toddlers and their parents." ?Ann Douglas, author, The Mother of All Pregnancy Books

Surefire steps for ditching diapers and conquering setbacks

Help your little one make the transition without trauma or tears

Packed with practical, painless solutions and plenty of good humor, this friendly guide offers you step-by-step directions to help your toddler move from diapers to the potty in record time ? with cant-miss advice on managing everything from motivation to bed-wetting to daycare providers.

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"Potty Training for Dummies" Description

If you could remember your own potty training, you’d probably recall a time filled with anxiety and glee, frustration and a sense of accomplishment, triumphal joy and shamed remorse. You’d remember wanting so much to make mommy and daddy happy, and at the same time to make them pay for being so darned unreasonable. And you’d recall feeling incredibly grown up once you got it right. Maybe if we could remember our own potty training, it wouldn’t be so tough when it came our turn to be the trainers. But as it is, most of us feel like we can use all the expert advice and guidance we can get.

Potty Training For Dummies is your total guide to the mother of all toddler challenges. Packed with painless solutions and lots of stress-reducing humor, it helps you help your little pooper make a smooth and trauma-free transition from diapers to potty. You’ll discover how to

    li>Read the signs that your tot is read
  • Motivate your toddler to want to give up diaper
  • Kick off potty training on the right foo
  • Foster a team approac
  • Deal with setbacks and pee and poop prank
  • Make potty training a loving game rather than a maddening ordea

Mother and daughter team, Diane Stafford and Jennifer Shoquist, MD separate potty-training fact from fiction and tell you what to expect, what equipment you’ll need, and how to set the stage for the big event. They offer expert advice on how to

    li>Choose the right tim
  • Use a doll to help model behavio
  • Say the right things the right wa
  • Reinforce success with praise and reward
  • Switch to training pant
  • Get support from relative
  • Cope with special case
  • Train kids with disabilitie

And they offer this guarantee: “If your child is still in diapers when he makes the football team or gets her college degree, you can send him or her off to us for a weekend remedial course—and ask for a refund of the cost of this book.”