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Any potty books for kids recommendations?

MelissaSue81MelissaSue81 member
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Ok.. so I said way back when i didn't know any better that I would start introducing potty training to Eve when she was 18 months with the hopes of having her trained around her 2nd birthday..My older neice did this, so I thought it was totally possible.. And MIL says both her kids were trained by 22 months (I didn't think DH was trainable.. but apparently he learned to use the toilet at some point)

Eve could care less about the potty.. She has no concept of what to do if we sit her on it.. She doesn't really care if her butt is dirty or wet..  If you ask her if she pooped or is stinky, she ALWAYS says "yesh" even if she didn't.. and she always says "poop" when I change her diaper even if she didn't poop.. Sooo.. we've got a long way to go.. but I want her to at least be exposed to the idea..

I looked at potty books today and B&N.. and I don't know.. maybe I'm a weird-o.. but I feel weird reading books that say things like "I sit on the potty when I have to pee and poop.." its just icky to me.

I ended up with (no surprise) a Dora one.. Its pretty non-offensive... and it makes a toilet flushing sound.. so Eve likes it.. We read it a few times, so Eve now at least knows what a "potty" is.. even though I don't think she knows what she is supposed to do with it.

Melissa & Jeff 5-27-06
m/c 1/2/08 and 3/12/08
Eve Amelia- Born 2/24/09. 6lb 9.9oz
Natalie Ruth - Born 6/13/11 7lb 6.6oz
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Re: Any potty books for kids recommendations?

  • ArcticFoxArcticFox member

    My DD liked the movie "Potty Power" even though I found it a little annoying.

    Books never seemed to do much for us..

    Do you sit her on the potty ASAP in the morning when she wakes up or after a nap?  Often they have to go, and then you can show them the pee and dump it in the toilet.  Or if she drinks a ton of juice you can sit her on the potty like 10 minutes after and inevitably she will have to go (if she will sit long enough).

    Can you do any "role play"?  Like with stuffed animals, or like when you go, she can sit on her potty too?

    I tried at age 2 but I wasn't very consistent... I had the worst morning sickness with baby #2 so I was lazy about potty training.  We did it right before the baby and it was pretty easy (since at 2.5 you can communicate pretty well).  GL!

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  • TelycoTelyco
    Yeah - I don't get putting everyone through a struggle this early...just because our moms potty trained us earlier. Like Arctic said - once her LO was 2.5 it was easy because you could at least communicate more. I dunno - that's my $.02. But what was the question...a book rec? Haha. I bought a few for my niece and they were all basically the same. You go poop and pee on the potty and wash your hands. I'm a big fan of Everyone Poops, though. :)
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  • BethPSUBethPSU member
    Reed never cared about the potty books we have, but we trained him really early so I don't think he had the attention span for the books early on.  I think it is all about consistency.  Since we started putting him on the potty at 10 months it was a non event for him.  It's like he has always known what to do.  We just had to finally get rid of the diapers because he didn't know to *hold* his pee.  I thought it would take a lot longer, but after a few days with a few accidents he was good to go.  I approached it as a developmental milestone that would take time and not be a one weekend thing.  Overall, I spent a lot longer working on it, but am done with diapers a lot sooner.  I think people that train in a few days are usually the ones that are starting when their kid is already 2.5.  I always thought of every poop or pee in the toilet as one less I had to deal with (especially since we use cloth diapers).  
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  • jnk062602jnk062602

    I think people used to try to pt kids early before bc diapers sucked.  I know my mom said they used to double-diaper us for sleeping and it would still leak out.

    I'll probably do the lazy route and wait until she is older and then just do a crash week course.  Or tell DH it is time for her to be potty trained during one of my long weeks of work and let him deal with it hahaha.

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  • MelissaSue81MelissaSue81 member

    Hmm. yeah. A video is a good idea..

    I'm not really pushing it at this point.. but I just feel like she doesn't even have any idea what the potty is for.. and i want her to at least get an idea. I was thinking a book would be a good start.. 

    Melissa & Jeff 5-27-06
    m/c 1/2/08 and 3/12/08
    Eve Amelia- Born 2/24/09. 6lb 9.9oz
    Natalie Ruth - Born 6/13/11 7lb 6.6oz
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  • skroopsskroops

    I got Zoey a Sesame Streeet board book about Grover using the potty.  She likes and and we read it, but I don't think it really made much of a difference as far as potty training goes.  We also took out two videos from the library, but she wasn't too interested.  But she isn't much of a TV watcher and will rarely sit still to actually watch a whole episode of something.

    What I really think helped us was that I would take her in the bathroom with me pretty much every time I went and tell her "Mommy's going potty" and narrate the whole process for her.  Kinda gross I know - she would look in the toilet to see it (ew!) watch me wipe, wash my hands, etc.  But she became really interested in the whole process and eventually wanted to start sitting on the toilet herself and then wipe, wash her hands, and go through the whole routine.  Even though she wasn't actually doing anything, she got used to the whole process so it was familiar to her. 

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  • Stellabella125Stellabella125
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    What I really think helped us was that I would take her in the bathroom with me pretty much every time I went and tell her "Mommy's going potty" and narrate the whole process for her.  Kinda gross I know - she would look in the toilet to see it (ew!) watch me wipe, wash my hands, etc.  But she became really interested in the whole process and eventually wanted to start sitting on the toilet herself and then wipe, wash her hands, and go through the whole routine.  Even though she wasn't actually doing anything, she got used to the whole process so it was familiar to her. 

    we did this too. also my mom was kind enough to get this (https://www.liveandlearn.com/corolle/emmabebedo.html) doll and I think she really loved this too. you feed her water from the bottle and then she pee pees on the potty and she can visualize what she needs to do.

    we got this free "time to potty train" dvd from huggies pull ups or something like that, anyways it was meant for adults to watch, but for some reason Bella loved to watch the video too. she'd ask for it on a daily basis. 

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