Potty Training in One Day: A Guide for Today's Parents

by Narmin Parpia

Potty Training in One Day is a proven method that has successfully worked for many parents. With some planning & preparation, followed by a day of potty training, your child will be accident free as quickly as one day to a maximum of 2 weeks!! Potty Training In One Day walks parent through the entire potty process – from determining if their child is ready to how to handle bowel movement training and bedwetting. It answers common questions such • At what age should I start potty training? • How do I know if my child is ready to be potty trained? • What should I do? How should I potty train? • What does potty training in one day mean? • What about Bowel Movement Training? • What should I do if my child resists training? • How do I handle night time potty training and bed wetting? ….and much more, to help parents prepare for this important developmental milestone and make it a positive and memorable experience for both parent and child.

120 pages, Paperback

First published May 8, 2006

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

It really works!

We had failed so miserably with potty training our 4.5-year-old that 3 days ago, he had successfully peed in the potty 1 time in his life. Today, after using the method described in this book to the letter, he was accident free. It wasn't that we hadn't tried before...all kinds of things...but this method pulls every good learning tool together in an intensive program that makes it very difficult to fail.

I read the book from cover to cover and went as close to the letter as I could manage. I didn't read any part of it as optional, and I don't think it is. In fact, this method had been recommended to me before and without reading the book, I attempted to do what they described. Only after reading the book did I realize that I had left out a lot of the important details. Since I would not recommend trying this without reading the entire book (well, you can skim the sales pitch at the beginning), I won't go into details about the method, but I whole-heartedly recommend this to any parent.

We'll be trying this on our 2-year-old next weekend...fingers crossed!

Note: This is practically the same review I gave a similar title, "Toilet Training in Less than a Day" because they are very similar. I thought this one had some better information on things like night wetting, but that the other one described the process itself a little better, especially going into more detail about WHY it works and thus stressing the importance of following every step. I did disagree with the idea that a toy could be substituted as a reward instead of edible treats, because part of the process is to keep things distraction-free. Food is a quick, immediate reward that goes away immediately. They'll want to play with the toys, causing distractions. I think they were catering to an overly health conscious segment of the population and doing it badly. Personally, I don't think marshmallows or m&m's permanently damaged my child, but if that causes problems for you, I'd still recommend food -- maybe dried fruit or something.

[Clare · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very similar to the book by Azrin & Foxx that I read previously because Parpia is updating Azrin & Foxx's teachings by adding troubleshooting tips and other helpful hints that were missing from the earlier book.

Parpia gives more help for what to do if training doesn't go exactly as you planned (whereas the book written by the men assumes that everything goes perfectly and if not, then you are doing it wrong.)

Plus, Parpia explains how to handle potty training at nap time, during the night and when you're outside your home. The Azrin book does not delve into these issues because the men contend that if you start training first thing in the morning, most children will be trained by nap time.

If you live in a small town, the shopping info in this book will be especially helpful. For example, we only have a couple of stores with baby inventory: Kohl's, Wal-Mart, K-mart and the grocery store. I went to all 4 places. None had training pants, or appropriate dolls that wet. This book provides a shopping list and you can buy all the stuff at www.potty-training-in-one-day.com
Had I known about the website sooner, I could've saved myself the trouble of schlepping my son to all the stores with me.

[Kendra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really great approach to potty training. I was skeptical of having my son teach a doll to go potty (he's not into dolls at all), but it WORKED!!

I was really shocked at how easy it was. He had the basic idea of going pee in the potty within about 2 hours of starting this method. It took about a week of fine-tuning and working on pooping, but now he is in underwear all the time and goes like a pro.

The one thing I don't like is the heavy marketing emphasis of the book. It is very possible to use the approach without buying their specific paraphernalia. For the doll phase, we used a cheap wetting doll that did not meet many of the "ideal" criteria -- and it still worked just fine.

[Holly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Everyone knows that it takes more than one day to potty train a child, but this book does offer some great ideas. The concept of the child teaching a doll how to go potty first worked great for us, and the idea of throwing a party to make it official that there are no diapers is good too. There is a lot of junk to sift through to get to the real meat in this book, but I reccommend it.

[Katieb (MundieMoms) · Rating 3 out of 5]

So I'm in the process of trying to get my son to be potty trained. Nothing has worked so far. I've heard both good and bads things about this book. I'm hoping to get some good ideas from this book to try out w/ my son. I'm crossing my fingers.....

I finally sat down and read this book today. This book has some great tips and I'm looking forward to seeing if they work.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

While the title of this book is misleading, I would still recommend it as an effective method for potty training. It is really one day of establishing expectations and, in my son's case, a week + of reinforcement. AJ is now nearly accident free, including at night. But, we still prompt him to go, and he usually needs a little help. The diapers are gone!

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used these ideas when I toilet trained three of my children. I modified it a bit and only used the positive approaches he suggested. It worked perfectly for each of my children!! However, you can learn all you need to in the first chapter or two. That is all I really used.

[Cynthia Cheney · Rating 5 out of 5]

It worked. My mother & I "trained" my daughter using this method. My mother said, "I can't remember when I felt this productive - in One day!"