Oh Crap

[HarryHarry]

Can somebody summarise this method for me? According to Amazon, the book is over 300 pages long!

Pretty much: if you haven't got your DC potty trained by the time they're 30 months, you're a bad parent. And if it's after 3...theb hell mend ye!!

As you can tell, I don't rate that book Because of it and the panic it induced in me, I tried to train DD before she was ready and it was horrible for all of us. Waited a bit longer and she was fine.

There are some good tips and it's interesting about the psychology of it all...but I personally feel it puts way too much pressure on you to do it as early as you can and that just doesn't work for many DC.

By all means read it (or a summary) but don't take it as gospel.

Basically keep your kid naked in a piss filled corner of your room and don't go outbfor a week and then put pants on, kid pisses pants as used to being naked and so have to go back to being naked again. So many people rate, it. I like @ColourMeExhausted don't. I tried it for two days it made me exhausted and stressed and I think my kid felt the same. We had a break of a month, read pirate Pete a lot and watched potty stuff on YouTube, chatted about stuff. We've started again at 30 months using pull ups and so far we have made really good progress.

I used this method and it did work for us, although there are some bits I didn't agree with. This was also the second time of trying it, we'd tried 2 months earlier and we didn't get anywhere.
So block one - naked, at least on the bottom half. You're supposed to watch the child constantly to look for signals of when they're about to wee or poo. When you see the signal or if they start weeing get them to the potty. Once you crack this you move onto block two - commando. So skirts/trousers etc with no underwear. They're supposed to be commando for around a month. Block 3 is going out, so maybe a short walk around the block or pop to the corner shop. Block 4 - underwear. Block 5 - self initiation. Then there's a section about nighttime training but I haven't done that as I think it's hormonal whether a child is dry or not at night.
I would recommend the book - you don't need to read it all at once, just read it a block at a time. There is also a fb group.

We're currentky Potty training and we can go out too. My kid just pissed in a travel potty at the side of the road. Don't understand the idea that you should be miserable whilst potty training

We did it and it worked an absolute treat. DS was potty trained after 4 days at 18 months.

Essentially days 1-2 he was naked waist down so I could see him start to wee. I’d then move him quickly on to the potty so that he would make the connection with needing to wee and wee coming out. Same with poo. 2 days was enough for me to learn his patterns so on day 3 we went out as normal between wees. Day 4 it clicked for him and he could indicate before he needed to go (albeit with little notice) as opposed to while he was going. We kept him commando for a couple of weeks as easier to pull trousers down and also because the idea is that pants feel a bit like nappies and they can get confused at the start.

I’m sure it doesn’t work for every child but when I see people on here talking about waiting till their child wasn’t ready til over 3 or that they’ve spent months and months doing it “gradually” I just feel so lucky that we didn’t go through that and I do think it’s worth a try.

I used it for DD1 at 22mo and she was pretty much done in a morning, although she had practiced weeing on a potty before bath.
Now using it for DD2, also 22mo, and she's not having it. We're on day 5, this afternoon I put her on the potty when I saw her signals (one of which is her announcing "weewee" FFS) and she refused to sit down, stood up and weed on the floor instead. My DD1/oh crap evangelism is wearing off... she's a stubborn little thing though and went 5.5 hours on the first day without a wee, just so we couldn't practice

Thank you for your replies everyone - lots to think about! @HarrietM87 I think I remember your username from the pregnancy boards when we were both expecting our sons. Good to hear potty training was successful for you!