Potty Train Your Baby

by Katie Pelt

Book Overview

This revolutionary handbook stresses that the transition from diaper to potty can be started before the child's first birthday, and be fully completed by the second. Original.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895296926
• ISBN13: 9780895296924
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.1" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I started using this book when my son was 7 months old. He is now 22 months old and almost completely potty trained, without any fights, hassle or stress. The main thing about this book that is different from the others is that it sees potty training as something that takes 12-18 months, not something to be done in a weekend or two. Its premise is that you teach children all the necessary skills to using the potty so that when their body is ready, the skills are already there. This book does NOT claim that your child will (or should be) potty trained at 12 months of age. The book does point out that it is a much more difficult process to potty train a child who is 2+ and who has already reached the age of "NO"!

Thank you Katie Van Pelt!

The only people giving her one star are people trying to train TODDLERS!! This is potty training for babies, and it DOES WORK. If you follow her advice and you are willing to spend the time, it will work. My son is 21 months old. I started him on the potty as soon as he could sit up (about 6 months old.) He picked it up very quickly. At 14 months I started letting him go bare-bottomed in my house (since he can't pull his own pants down yet.) Now, when we're home, he uses the potty for pee-pee and poo-poo. If he has a diaper on when we're not at home, he does go pee-pee in it, but I don't care about that because he ALWAYS goes poo-poo on the potty, and ONLY on the potty. I haven't changed a poopy diaper in at least 7 months. He can go pee-pee and sometimes poo-poo on demand. If I set him on the potty (big or little) he will go for me. I got this book when I was trying to potty train my daughter at 20 months. She also began using the potty, but not nearly as readily and not as reliably and it was just very frustrating (she was fully trained at 2 1/2 though). I believe the key is that you must start them before they know any different--before they want to test your limits and while they still want to please you. My son doesn't know any different. As far as he is concerned poo-poo goes on the potty and no where else. If you're one of those poeple who doesn't mind changing poopy diapers, then fine, don't use this method. But I am absolutely thrilled to be washing potties and not changing poopy diapers! I am so very thankful to Katie Van Pelt for writing this book so I didn't listen to all of those people who said I had to wait until they were 3 years old! Geeze!!

A Very Practical Book

This is a very easy to follow and practical book. My son just turned a year old, and he is doing great with this method. This is a longer term method, and it takes some effort, but he is actually having fun learning! The author makes a very good argument for early training, and then gives practical advice on how to go about it. I would definitely reccommend this book to someone who stays at home with their child and can put in the time this method requires. Potty training has actually been quite enjoyable for my son and me, not at all stressful or frustrating as I've heard it can be.

Pelt makes potty trining FUN for babies

This book offers a positive approach for early potty training. I've just begun using the tecnique with my 12 mo. old, and she just loves it. After one week, she has already figured out that she can control her pee. And it's FUN!

Characterized by genlte technique and sound philosophy

This book goes against the grain of popular thinking today that focuses on "toilet teaching" at a later age. The gentle techniques proposed by the author follow a philosophy that a young baby can begin to develop control of muscles that are not yet fully developed themselves (which is consistent with other developmental processes like sitting-up and walking), and that teaching this control is quite effective at an age where the baby is more compliant to sitting on a potty than a two-year old would be.My wife and I started toilet training our daughter at about 12 months. At 18 months she started wearing panties, and by 22 months was completely out of diapers. All without the frustrations and struggles that seem to be prevalent among our peers. We highly recommend the book.