While I know that my son is grasping the basic concept of peeing on the potty – he is missing the bigger picture, which is the rest of the package – #2…

In 1975 Alona Frankel wrote and illustrated her first book, especially for her son Michael, on how to use the potty. This book, which is now a classic, hits all of the potty training issues spot on. Even though it was created over 30 years ago, the principles are still the same – with patience you will get pee and poo poo.

The book has now been re-released with a CD that has a Joshua and Prudence(main characters) song and a narrated version of the book. At first listen, I thought the song was a bit hokey, but after the third or fourth it stuck in my head like a song from the 80’s.

While Alona originally created the book for her son Michael, she also wrote a ‘girl’ version with the main character Prudence.

My son likes both versions and he continually asks for each book by their characters first names. If we have friends visiting, they immediately think that he is referring to friends he made at school, until I explain that he is asking for his potty training books…

Parent looking for a good, classic book that just tells it like it is will like Alona Frankel’s classic Once Upon A Potty.

This book was provided by The Parent Bloggers Network for Review.

Available at Amazon.

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As an added bonus, mom-of 2, Melissa Joan Hart is trying the DVD and blogging about how things are going. You can see her first entry here.

A registered nurse in Chicago, Wendy Sweeney, has a claim that will astonish impatient parents of toddlers everywhere.

Give her five hours, she says, and she’ll give you a potty-trained toddler, with an accuracy rate of 98%.

How does she do it?

“Never ask if they have to go,” she said. “If you ask them if they have to go potty, then you are the one who is in charge of their body. We’re trying to transfer that responsibility over to them. So we just tell them if you have to go potty, go in the potty.”

“In order to set them up to succeed, just make sure that you’re setting aside that time and make sure you remember that it’s not about you,” Wendy said. “The child needs to be confident themselves, so once they begin to take responsibility for their body, they’ll be proud of themselves and then continue that behavior. So give them all the tools they need to succeed. Tell them exactly what they need to know.”

“Tell them if you have to go to the bathroom, walk over to the potty, pull your pants down and go potty in the potty,” she says, “Tell them that they need to listen to their body and when they need to go, it’s their job to go over there.”

Requirements:

Toddlers have to be at least 2½ years old to take the training, because that is when they are able to understand simple commands and to control their own bodies.

Tricks: load the kids up on salty snacks and sugary drinks

“It is only for a short duration. It is not a diet that I recommend,” Wendy told The Today’s Show Curry. “The salty snacks make the kids more thirsty, so they drink more. It also draws water into the bowel and that softens the stool, and it helps prevent the constipation when the kids get nervous and want to start holding. The sugary drinks never quench their thirst, so they end up drinking more, and that gives them more opportunities to go to the bathroom in that short period of time.”

To date, Wendy says she’s graduated nearly 500 kids. For more info please visit her site: bootycampmom.com. SOURCE