Potty Training for Busy Parents: A Guide to Going Diaper Free On Your Own Time

by Allison Jandu

Potty training triumph—for very busy families

It’s time to change out of diapers for good. But what approach to use? Potty Training for Busy Parents is here to help make this vital transition smooth for your child—and for you. You can customize this practical, step-by-step potty training program to fit the time you have available.

You’ll learn a variety of techniques designed to be effective no matter your child’s age or personality. Find out how to tailor your approach based on their behavior and attitude during the potty training process. This definitive guide will help put your child on the potty—while taking off all the pressure.

Potty Training for Busy Parents includes:

Coordinating care—Tips for daycare and a handy notes section make it easy to share potty training strategies with your child’s other caregivers. Supportive words—Stumped on how to talk your child through training? Find ideas for what to say during each step of the process. Training troubleshooting—Get the advice you need if potty training gets tricky, with help for naptime, nighttime, and more.

Help your little one transition confidently to a diaper-free life with Potty Training for Busy Parents.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2019

Reviews

[Dee/ bookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

While a lot of points in this book are very good, it still has some things in it I can't fully support with my review. In the beginning of this book the author is painstakingly trying to be flexible with 'this is a suggestion' or 'you could try this', but further into the book there is a system she uses and maybe it works, but for me there is no way. I do agree that pull ups are expensive and mostly unnecessary, but I don't understand the get rid of diapers. I had a stubborn child that would not potty train, I tried the no diapers, it still took a long time. That, for me, was too much! The clean up makes it hard to not go back to diapers alone. Even some of the cleaning points in this book brought back memories. I use diapers and wait until they are not messing in them to change them over. But that said I do take them to the bathroom a lot. The small toilet is another thing that could be good or bad, but you may want to see if your child wants to use the big "potty' like grown ups. It saves a lot of time and clean up and you don't have to worry about the transition from little to big.

I received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review.

[Brenda Daun · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received a free arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was an informative book about potty training that was full of helpful tips and tricks. Its positive tone helped me feel a little less overwhelmed by the prospect of potty training.

I may need to revisit my review after trying out the method described in this book, but for now I thought it was a pretty good read for a potty training book.

[WritingReadingSoul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some newfangled ideas. Some tried-and-true approaches. Didn’t learn anything phenomenally groundbreaking. Thanks to RockRidge Press for an opportunity to read this book.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

There’s nothing much new in Potty Training for Busy Parents. It’s the same old advice for how to potty train little ones with an extra emphasis on using little potties and pushing potty training younger than most people start trying. There’s a lot of repetition and it’s short and to the point. It really should be called Potty Training for Special Snowflakes, though. The repeated advice to basically demand that daycare follow how you want to potty train and to send in this weird form filled out so the daycare knows how best to train precious little junior (like they havn’t trained hundreds of kids already) is a bit over the top. I also would not say it’s for busy parents, just ones who work and have plenty of time when they aren’t at work to potty train. I suggest skipping this one if you are looking for potty training advice.

[Arin Brutlag · Rating 2 out of 5]

If this is a book for busy parents, it's only because it's a shorter book than its contemporaries. It offers little in the way of new insight or ideas, directly contradicts other, more well-written books, and does not address how to handle anything other than potty-training a neurotypical, singleton child with no other children around. It also includes a reference to Autism $peaks, for which I docked an additional star.

[Dana · Rating 4 out of 5]

As the name states- for busy parents! Super easy to read 100-page book gives the complete how-to picture of potty training. Great for a refresher. For first time potty training, it only briefly touches on troubleshooting and scenarios. In that case I found more in depth knowledge in other manuals.

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not good not bad. I just thought it would be more about potty training while being busy but instead it was more of a condensed version of how to potty train overall.

[Rose Daugherty-rudd · Rating 3 out of 5]

We rescheduled potty training so technically I didn’t finish this book, but it was more of a reference anyway. It was fine, gave some practical tips maybe I’ll know how to review it when we go to potty train.