Sp who has used the <cod> Potty Training Bootcamp method? How was it?

[wastingaway]

I have been thinking about potty-training DS who is 2 in a couple months, and read about this Bootcamp method in the Mumsnet Toddler guide book.

Who's used it and what did you think?

[JaynieB]

Is this the one where you stop putting baby in nappies and expect them to be dry by the end of the week?
Yes, I tried it, ended up with a distressed and unhappy child by about day 5, who fretted constantly about the places she'd had an accident and on the fifth day burst into tears when I tried to take her nappy off in the morning and held onto it saying 'mine'. I finished at that point, left it a couple of months, introduced the potty much more gently and now she is out of nappies in the daytime and hasn't had a single accident.
It might work as a technique for some children, but it did not work at all well for mine.

[FromGirders]

It's the only way to do it.
Ok, not the only way, but the most efficient one for sure.

[wastingaway]

Oh. The spelling mistake in the title isn't an homage to the fish by the way.

[FromGirders]

Sorry, just read your dd is 2 soon. I wouldn't be thinking about it for sometime yet.
Then, do bootcamp method.

[JaynieB]

My DD was 2.5 and showing all the signs of being ready, but it didn't work for us.

[wastingaway]

It says best time is 2 - 2 1/2 in the book.

[littleducks]

I did it (minus small sylvanian rabbit in dungarees) and was sucessful, DD was 2.

DS was 2 last month will do it in school holidays eithrt half term or summer.

[nickschick]

All mine have been toilet trained by the age of this was day and night - I didnt do a boot camp but it took less than a week - because I was lucky - they were ready,the only time toilet training is succesful is when the child is ready.