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Potty training book/websites recs
Hi everyone,
I have designated next week as our official potty training boot camp week for my 2.5 year old 
We're finishing up the school year this week and I have one week off before I start teaching summer school. She's had some success going in the potty but I put it off because I was pregnant and then recovering from a c-section. Now we're all ready to be done with diapers!
Does anyone have a great book or method that works? I'm planning on putting her in underwear and having the potty close by, and expecting some accidents the first few days. I have pull-ups but I'm only planning on using them for naps and bedtimes. I saw this book - Toilet Training in Less Than a Day, by Nathan Azrin, on amazon that gets decent reviews.
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Re: Potty training book/websites recs
I'm interested to hear what others say because we are going to start potty training next weekend.
I've heard from people that the training underwear works well because they can feel the wetness but there's extra cotton padding in the crotch so it doesn't make as much of a mess as the regular thin cotton underwaer. So, if you are planning to train with underwear, you may want check them out. The Gerber Training Pants seem to get the best reviews on Amazon. You can also buy them at Target.
I think your plan sounds good and is about what we did with Maggie at about the same age. I had a few days I could dedicate to it over a holiday weekend. We woke up and I had a playdough set on the kitchen table. I told her she could have it as soon as she went in the potty for the first time (she had never actually peed in the potty up to this point, just sat on it a long time). I loaded her up with her fave drinks - grape juice and watered down grape pedialyte which she thinks of as a treat and 'medicine juice'. I had her in the thicker gerber underwear (not the thin kind so it absorbs more) and had both potty seats and a small Baby Bjorn potty that I put in the living room.
Maggie seemed actually afraid to go in the potty. She had two small accidents from trying to hold it in since she had no diaper on. So I had her pick which potty she wanted to go on and then she got to hold her Teddy bear (Like in her potty book). She finally went in the potty and got a treat and the playdough set. She was so excited and really got past the scared part of it. She had maybe 2 acciedents the whole weekend after that so we really got off easy at that point.
We still used pull-ups since she wasn't poop trained and we have a longer ride to daycare but she kept them dry. She was poop trained by the next week when we promised her a tricycle if she pooped in the potty (she was getting it for summer anyway so it seemed like a good deal to use it as a bribe). Then she got pull ups for naps and night time but again kept them dry so about 2 months later we were in all underwear all the time by the time she turned 3.
The kid book we have for it is The Potty Book - For Girls and she did like the Elmo Potty Time DVD we borrowed from my sister. The DVD has a nice song about 'accidents happen' so she knew it was OK to have an accident and to keep trying since she did get very upset when she had an accident even though we were always OK about it and just said how it was fine and cleaned it all up quickly.
Good luck!
I have The Everything Potty training book and this link was also helpful https://www.babycenter.com/0_potty-training-in-three-days-or-less_10310078.bc but just go for it. Don't give up is the key! We went thru 5 pairs of underwear in less than 2 hrs the 1st time. Have treats ready. DD was already potty trained for pooping since less than a year old so we only had to do peeing and she was doing that on and off for a long time. But one weekend we just went for it and the 1st day was full of accidents but the 2nd day was much better. She is still in pull-ups at night but it's fine - I'd much rather she STTN than have to wake up and pee (and wake me up, the 1 y.o. does enough of that!).
the 3-day thing is not really a 3-day thing, the key is to have lots of patience and know that it may take months before she's 100% PTed, good luck!! And remember, no one will graduate HS in pull-ups!