Toilet Training Guides

Here are some fab resources on this subject from a pediatric toilet training guru - (a dubious honor, for some, but you can't be in pediatrics without a healthy appreciation for the bodily functions).

• Parent Guide: Toilet Training Basics (start here)
• Parent Guide: Toilet Training Resistance (if you're having trouble)
• Parent Guide: Stool holding - When your child holds back bowel movements and is not toilet trained (uhoh)
• Parent Guide: Using Incentives to Motivate Your Child (you might need this)

Dr Parker, a developmental pediatrician with a mighty fine blog, has a this post on the Poop Wars:

• Poop Culture: Potty Training Your Child

Elizabeth Pantley, author of several "No-Cry" and other excellent parenting books, has several articles on this topic as well, which she permitted us to excerpt here:

• Quick Facts About Potty Training
• Potty Training Readiness Quiz
• Potty Training - Get Ready, Get Set, Go!

And if these Pantley tips don't work, you can always try the Pantless method ... take one warm weekend, add one rug-free room or backyard, a nearby potty or 2, and a toddler tanked up on fluids. Subtract clothes (theirs).

Comments

[Karla K]

Some of the Toilet Training Basic Parent Guides that you suggest have nonworking links - not very helpful!

[Julian Davies, MD]

Thanks, they should work now ... please let me know if these links break again. Good 'ol Google usually manages to find other online copies or cached pages when such links stop working.

[amy]

Some of the Toilet Training Basic Parent Guides that you suggest have nonworking links - not very helpful!

[Julian Davies, MD]

Fixed again. Gotta love the sites that switch their URL structure every year or so.