Any book recommendations for a potty training newbie?

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My dd is 21 months old and I'm thinking of tackling potty training over the summer (when she turns two) as she's showing quite a few signs and I am a teacher so will have 8 weeks off at home with her to help crack it rather than her being between my parents and nursery.

I'd like to read up a bit more as I have no idea of the best approach and as usual lots of family are offering their opinions- all of which are different! can anyone recommend any books that they found useful?

Thanks!

Meekoo and the big red potty

You need “Oh crap! it’s Potty Training”. She is amazing. And fun. Her method totally works. She makes you commit.

I'd also recommend getting the same potty in the lounge and the bedroom so there's always one close by

This will no doubt be controversial but for all 3 of my boys I used Gina Ford potty training in a week. Very structured and no nonsense - a bit like me! 😁

Oh Crap potty training (ignore the stuff about night training)

Oh Crap.

Its very dictatorial, but we picked out the bits that worked for us.

I read both ‘Oh Crap’ and the Gentle Potty Training book. Similar but a few things where they clashed in views- with both authors of course adamant their way was right! Oh Crap for example talks about keeping pants off for a good month (and having nothing on for a day or so, but then just trousers/ dress with no pants for a few weeks) as she says pants are too similar a feel to a nappy. The other book says leaving pants off for more than a few days can make it really hard for kids to then take to them later. Made me just realise that every child is different and I didn’t need to follow them to the absolute letter. I followed the gentle potty training one for my DD which worked well, and is going ok so far for DS too, I’ve just tweaked things a bit to work for them.

I read the Oh Crap book and then had a meltdown when it didn't work for DD. I had put so much pressure on myself to do it 'right'.
Cried on my mum who told me she used "bribery and corruption" with all four of her children. One packet of chocolate buttons later and DD was trained in a matter of days, can count on one hand the amount of accidents we've had since.

We started potty training exactly one week ago - using the potty training course from Biglittlefeelings.com and it’s actually going great! Today was his first day back in nursery, I sent him in with every pair of shorts he owns and he came back in the same pair he went in. Every kid is different but this method is definitely working for us.

A big part of their approach is a lot of preparation beforehand, so we’ve bought lots of toddler appropriate story books about potty training and had the potty in the house for him to get used to sitting on for a few months.

When you say potty training does this mean out of nappies completely so same as toilet training or just weeing in the potty but nappy back on?
Whichever book you read it'll only work if you LO is ready, does she tell you when she's weeing? Does she go and stand in a quiet spot and tell you she's about to do a poo?

Oh Crap worked for us.

Did both DC around their 2nd birthday. Potty trained within a week. It was hardcore though!

Nahhhh. Just take the nappy off them.

I would recommend the gentle potty training book by Sarah Ockwell-Smith