"When should I attend the Toilet Learning Seminar?"

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“When should I attend the Toilet Learning Seminar?”

Posted November 18, 2010

Just wondering about your toilet training seminar... Wondering what age is appropriate to sign up? My daughter is 18 months - wondering If you suggest waiting until after 2 or later before i register for anything... thanks!

In my Toilet Learning the Easy Way seminar I focus on the year between age two and three. I discuss what parents may do during that year, with a particular focus on my strong recommendations about what not to do during that year. This is a year for toilet learning. It isn't until age three that I recommend parents do any toilet training (sometimes the child will have figured it out independently by then, which is lovely.)

Of course these recommendations go against popular beliefs that all this should be accomplished "early," and parents often feel peer or generational pressure to have this finished around age two. I prefer to reach parents before they are tempted to start "training" so in that sense, any time between 18 months and 24 months is a good time to attend. Oh, and beware of the "false start" potential around 19-21 months when some children become very curious about the toilet and parents mistakenly think they need to get going on training. Doing so can mean spending the better part of the next 2 years struggling with this issue.

Thank you for asking what many parents wonder about.

Kitty

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We took the seminar just before our daughter was two I think and waited like Kitty suggested. Our daughter will three in February so we figured we’d give it a try. 2 days and she is trained. The first day was a fail, second day she got it and we haven’t looked back. Not a single accident yet.

We are glad we listened to Kittys advice & waited because there was no fighting our daughter just did it.

Our reward for her was with every successful potty she got to put a sticker on a racetrack (I found a picture of the Candy land game and used that, taped it to the bathroom door). She loves stickers!! One for pee two for poo. When she has the racetrack all stickered up we can go to toys r us for a toy of her choice (which we know her and it will be less than $30 always is when she picks) and I of course will keep the racetrack for memories. The racetrack is big so it can’t be completed in a day so maybe that’s why we have no accidents, we are still using it maybe another two or three days & we’ll be done the track.

I’d recommend the seminar. Go, get the info and wait. It worked for us. Good luck!

By Meagan Hughes on November 19, 2010

I attended the seminar on November 23 2010 after 6 months of unsuccesful potty training. I went home and decided to just follow the advice of Kitty and do potty learning. First it is stress free for me and my son and it works…It is now November 26 and though my son is not trained he is definitely learning.
We just came home for an hour in the snow and he took off his pants and diaper by himself and went on the toilet by himself. He even had to pee for real! I am totally flabbergasted.

By Kristell Clarke on November 26, 2010

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