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Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right (Oh Crap Parenting)

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“Straight up, parent tested, and funny to boot, Jamie gives you all the information you need.” —Amber Dusick, author of Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures A proven six-step plan to help you toilet train your preschooler quickly and successfully, from potty-training expert, Pied Piper of Poop, and social worker Jamie Glowacki.Worried about potty training? Let Jamie Glowacki, potty-training expert, show you how it’s done. Her 6-step, proven process to get your toddler out of diapers and onto the toilet has already worked for tens of thousands of kids and their parents. Here’s the good news: your child is probably ready to be potty trained EARLIER than you think (ideally, between 20–30 months), and it can be done FASTER than you expect (most kids get the basics in a few days—but Jamie’s got you covered even if it takes a little longer). If you’ve ever said to yourself: How do I know if my kid is ready? Why won’t my child poop in the potty? How do I avoid “potty power struggles”? How can I get their daycare provider on board? My kid was doing so well—why is he regressing? And what about nighttime?! Oh Crap! Potty Training can solve all of these (and other) common issues. This isn’t theory, you’re not bribing with candy, and there are no gimmicks. This is real-world, from-the-trenches potty training information—all the questions and all the ANSWERS you need to do it once and be done with diapers for good. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; First Paperback Edition (June 16, 2015)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501122983


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 89


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.76 x 9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #563 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Baby & Toddler Parenting


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Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,539 ratings


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Review Image by Jennifer Jansen Jennifer Jansen
This book came highly recommended from several of my mom friends, so when my son showed interest in the toilet for the first time at 18 months because he witnessed older kids at daycare using the restroom, I ~devoured~ it. Front to back, with highlighting and studying-for-an-exam level note taking. Unlike others, I don’t mind the author’s tone, her humor is right up my alley. Our house at the time was all tile or hardwood and our couch is from Goodwill because we have pets, so there was no anxiety on my part about cleanup. I knew what to do, and I was mentally prepared. Day 1 was nothing but puddles and turds on the floor, but whatever, I said to myself. I reminded myself that he was learning. Day 2 went okay with 50% pee success and even a poop in the pot. Hooray, right? Except on day 3, as Jamie put it, it turned into “trying to stuff a cat into a bucket of water”. Screaming, crying, physically fighting me to scramble off the pot, having a fit even if I only prompted him every 2 hours. I tried to keep going for 2 more days, until everyone was in tears. EPIC FAIL #1 Reassured by the author herself that one reset wasn’t the end of the world, especially with a kid under 24 months, we tried again just after he turned 2. Same exact crap (pun intended!), different month. EPIC FAIL #2 At this point, I began to panic a little. You can’t do a reset twice! Gotta work through that resistance! Don’t let your stubborn toddler win this one! Must not go back to diapers! Ahhhhh! Except we were then due to move across the country, so the choice was out of my hands. At 32 months - supposedly now we were in the “danger zone” 🙄 - my son once again showed interest in bathroom matters. Third time’s the charm, right? WRONG! Just like with the previous two attempts, the resistance kicked in STRONG on day 3. No, I was not hovering. No, I was not over-prompting. We had potty chairs literally in every room and hallway of our 4 bedroom place (including the living-room, dining-room, kitchen and basement). Yes, my son was developmentally ready. He just didn’t ~want to~ potty train. EPIC FAIL #3 By now, feelings of shame, utter failure, and mommy rage, were seriously starting to affect me. Why was this 4.5 Star rated method not working??? Was I a horrible, inattentive parent? Well, they say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results. So I did a deep dive into all things potty training. First of all, while it’s true that kids were being potty trained younger in previous generations, we can also not ignore the fact that society in general, but especially parenting, has changed. Children are not oblivious to the fact that life as a whole has become much more democratic. Kids pick up on the fact that outside of what happens in their own homes, most matters regarding children are gravitating towards a child-led approach. No matter a toddler’s age - whether it’s 18, 24 or 36 months - you simply cannot coerce them to use the potty. So the whole section of the book about working through resistance is BS. There is no natural or logical consequence that works in your favor here when kids refuse to cooperate with toilet training. They don’t clean their room? Okay, then they don’t get screen time. They don’t wear a jacket in 45 degree weather? Well, you’ll be cold, kiddo, not me. They don’t want to potty train? Well, what are you gonna do? Yell? Spank? Develop an alcohol problem? Secondly, how come we all accept that each kid is different and that they may all develop on their own timeline, except when it comes to potty training, 3 is the alleged cutoff? During my frantic research, I found very few reputable sources that would reassure me that my almost-3yo wasn’t “delayed” or “toilet resistant”. Nearing a full-blown mental breakdown, I contacted several more of my mom friends - not the same ones who’d recommended Oh Crap! - who had 3-6 kids each. “How old were your kids when they were potty trained?” I wanted to know. “So-and-so was 2, but so-and-so was 3, almost 4,” they’d reply. Okay, at least I’m not the only one with a 3yo still in diapers. Phew! I’m not the worst mother on the planet, yay! “How’d you potty train them?” I’d then ask. “We didn’t”, they’d ALL say. EXCUSE ME, WHAT??? “One day, my kids just decided to do it. Sure, we had the occasional accident for another 6-12 months, but once they were ready, they just did it,” was the overwhelming consensus. Yeah right! Surely they were kidding?! They were not. What they recommended, especially those who had “strong willed” boys like mine, was essentially the same prep phase as recommended by Jamie Glowacki. Open bathroom door policy, daily books about the potty (and/or YouTube videos), role playing with a doll or a stuffed animal, describing the bathroom habits of pets, practice practice practice them independently pushing their pants down... Okay, I’d done that with him since he turned 1. Then what? What do I do? Nothing. You do NOTHING. No, really. Think about it. Special needs kids aside, have you ever seen a kindergartener in diapers? I teach K-5 and I haven’t. Unless there’s a return to work deadline looming, why are you rushing this? If you’re sick of changing diapers, I feel you, but don’t pressure your kid because of it. If you feel like people are judging you, f*** them! And if you really do need to go back to work, you’re better off finding a daycare rather than a school, where staff will be supportive of the occasional 36+ month old in diapers. They ALL start using the toilet... eventually. A month after our third disastrous Oh Crap attempt, I was literally mid-business when my son burst into the bathroom. “MAMA MOVE, MAMA MOVE! I PEE, I PEE!!!” Literally scrambling off the toilet, I watched in utter disbelief as he pushed the step stool over there from the sink, got up, and peed. Wipe, flush, wash hands. “Okay Mama, me all done.” (Yes, he has a slight expressive speech delay) WHAT JUST HAPPENED?! Surely that had to be a fluke? Nope. Here we are, 6 days later, and he has 1-2 “half” pee accidents/day, max. Aka he starts to go because he puts it off just a little too long sometimes, but then stops himself, and runs to the bathroom. Then immediately tells me cleanup is needed. He takes himself to the pot to pee AND poop without me ever saying a word. I’m neither kidding nor exaggerating. So please. Do not beat yourself up almost to the point of going crazy like I did if your kid and the Oh Crap method just don’t vibe. They’re either truly not ready, or the Bootcamp all-or-nothing style just isn’t for them. I do like certain aspects of it, such as the naked phase (I have a mini nudist!), going commando because it makes pulling pants down easier, really focusing on your kid for the first few days, or bringing the potty with you to the park in the back of the car. Hence 2 stars. But don’t get scared into thinking you can never ever use pull-ups or you’ve blown it. And her whole section about night-time training is nonsense. Bladder control while sleeping is developmental (according to several medical professionals I’ve asked). It makes absolutely no sense that kids can consolidate for 2-6 hours during the day - yes, sometimes my son goes 6 hours between pees - but their muscles supposedly magically atrophy at night. It’s a simple matter of being a light enough sleeper (or not) until their bladder is big enough to get them through the night. If your kid is over 6 and still wetting the bed, THAT’S potentially an issue. Not a 3 or 4 or even a newly 5yo, especially not when they’re 100% daytime trained. To make a very long story short... if you have a disaster at your hands, then take a break, go back to the prep stage, maybe buy other books and see if a different approach works better. Mix and match if you need to. And if absolutely nothing seems to work... just give it time. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 20, 2021 by Jennifer Jansen Jennifer Jansen
    • THE BEST Potty Training Book! Potty Trained my 21 month old in about 1 week!
This book is THE BEST, most current book on potty training available. I purchased this book before beginning in earnest the potty-training process with our daughter. We introduced the concept of the potty at 16-18 months, and did the potty training over the course of 5 days (1 long 3-day weekend and 2 days off from work) when she was 21 months old. The author of Oh Crap!, Jamie Glowacki, is very glib, so I can see how some people might be put off by her style. If you're interested in getting a sense of her methods and style, I recommend visiting her blog (jamieglowacki dot com) or viewing some of her videos on YouTube (channel "oh crap with jamie"). When it comes down to it, her method WORKS. However, even though she says to follow her methods exactly, she also says in other parts of the book that you can do what you think is best for your child -- but if it doesn't work, then you've been warned! Fair enough. We did the bare bottom for days 1-2. Day 1 wasn't great, but on day 2 something just clicked and she actually started going to the potty on her own! Day 3 she was commando, but was running to the potty so often that she didn't have her pants on very much. Listen to Jamie's advice, don't give your under 2 year old extra fluids. On day 4 we tried commando again, but it just didn't work. When she had an accident, it just made her socks wet and her upper pants stayed dry. There was no real discomfort associated with peeing her pants. So after her mid-day nap, we switched to training pants - with no pants. This worked great! Only 2 accidents. Day 5 she was in training pants most of the day, with pants on to go on trips outside the house. Day 6 fully clothed all day with short trips outside (5-10-15-20-30 minutes) and everything was great. Only issue was number 2, which she still wasn't comfortable with. Day 7 she was back at daycare, no accidents, except a number 2, but later went 2 in the potty! Day 8 perfect, a couple small accidents, but still going 2 in the potty. Day 9 same. Day 10, back at daycare again and ZERO accidents. Based on our interpretation of potty trained, our daughter is fully potty trained: she can now verbalize when she needs to go, will sometimes go when prompted, and will sometimes go without telling us (we've surprisingly found her on several occasions peeing on the potty with her pants down), consistently goes 1 and 2 on the potty, has a complete potty routine, and stay dry for naps. Averaging 0-2 accidents per day, with 0 days more often. In terms of nap and night training, we also deviated a bit from Jamie's method. Our daughter has been staying dry for naps while in diapers, so we didn't put her in a pull-up for that, and just used training pants. She's had zero accidents during naps. Dry every day. So she's completely day-trained. At night we're using a pull-up (technically pampers easy-ups), but even still, she has woken up on at least 4 mornings with a completely dry diaper and has begun to consistently self-initiate the morning pee. So, we're happy with it as is. We have no intention of waking our daughter up in the middle of the night. We're just going to continue having her use the potty before bed and upon waking, and hopefully we will see a progression to more dry mornings. If not, and we're getting close to the 2.5 year mark, we may intervene and use Jamie's method. I get why there are negative reviews for this book. Jamie tells it like it is, and some people don't like that. It's a book, it's not like she's there with you, making you do anything. If you don't want to do it her way, then do what you think is best for your child, but honestly, she knows her stuff and her advice works. Slight modifications here and there are fine, but you can't hodgepodge different methods together or deviate significantly and expect the same promised results. This book is THE model that you should follow. This is the ONLY book you need to buy on potty training. Just BUY IT, READ IT, THEN START the process when you have 3-5 days to devote exclusively to spending time with your child. This book has everything you need. Plenty of chapters of prep, a clear how-to chapter, a chapter on nighttime training, chapters on trouble-shooting related to each stage or block of the potty-training process, a chapter on poop, a chapter on daycare - just look at the Table of Contents in the Amazon Preview. This book even has a Dad's cheat sheet (which could have a more neutral title, but you know, hetero-normative gender roles...), as well as a general parents' cheat sheet. Both of these were extremely useful. My husband would not read this entire book, but did read those two cheat sheets. Lastly, I would also attribute our potty training success to the following products and books used in conjunction with Oh Crap! - Elmo's Potty Time Sesame Street - Elmo's Potty Time Yes, you can rent it via Amazon on-demand, but trust me, you're going to want to have a hard copy that you can watch infinite times. - Fisher Price singing potty (do you really want to be checking between your child's legs every couple minutes to see if they peed? This tells you instantaneously, even if you're in the other room, and my daughter loves the instant gratification and fun songs) Fisher-Price Potty Training, Learn-to-Flush - Baby Bjorn potty chair BABYBJORN Potty Chair, Gray Because you'll need a second potty, and because everyone told us we HAD to get this one. It's fine, perhaps more ergonomic. Definitely more portable than the Fisher-Price chair. - Big Girls Use the Potty! (in paperback) Big Girls Use the Potty! It breaks the process down step-by-step for young girls (it also comes in a boy version) and has a sticker chart and stickers. We didn't use the stickers as rewards (my daughter was too young to grasp that concept - Jamie also advises against rewards), but did use the chart as a visualization of our daughter's potty progress - a concept she COULD understand and she took much pride in counting all her stars. - Potty by Leslie Patricelli Potty (Leslie Patricelli board books) Cute, easy for toddlers to understand, simple text and pictures with room for improvisation by parents - Oxo Tot 2-in-1 Go Potty OXO Tot 2-in-1 Go Potty for Travel - Green Eventually you're going to have to take your child outside for more than 30 minutes, and this is where things get complicated. Public restrooms are gross. Put this on the FLOOR as far away from the toilet as possible in the large accessible bathroom stall. Once they're older/bigger this seat also morphs into a potty seat for use on the toilet. It's extremely useful for all the random times your child tells you they need to go - at the park, immediately after arriving somewhere in the car, in the elevator... ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2016 by JHanlon

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