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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Booty Camp potty trains in 1 day
A nurse in Chicago uses a group setting and lots of liquid to potty train in just one.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you’re at work plug in your headset, if you’re at home turn down the volume, we have a video to watch.
There’s a new trendy potty training lady called of course “The Potty Whisperer.” She’s a nurse who has six kids of her own, and she holds “Booty Camp” in her home outside of Chicago. She says she can potty train your child in just one day.
After watching the video I recognized a lot of the techniques she’s using — giving sugary drinks to make them go frequently, making the clean up their own messes, giving them praise when they go.
However, I didn’t have much luck with these techniques until my kids were truly ready to train.
I personally don’t believe that kids will train until they are physically and emotionally ready to do it, and the parents have to pay attention to their cues. You can want them to do it, but until they’re ready you’re just going to be banging your head against a wall.
The one thing I do see in this video that I think does work is seeing their peers going to the potty makes the other kids want to do it too. I don’t think it would work if she only was training one child at a time. I think in general kids in day care and in group sitter situations train faster than ones who are at home alone. They get excited seeing the other children go and get praise. They want to copy-cat and be in on the “fun.” It’s peer pressure at it’s finest, and it works well with swimming lessons too. (Have a kid who is afraid to go in? Put him with a bunch of other kids happily swimming, and he is more likely to choose to join in.) My niece was in a group sitter situation and had two other older girls at the home with her and she trained very early and very quickly. (She trained much earlier than my first daughter who was home alone with me.)
I also think that kids with older siblings generally train faster because they see the other kids do it and want to do it too. (For some reason I don’t think seeing the parents do it influences them as much as other kids.) Our son trained faster than our first daughter, and my 1-year-old already mimics pulling toilet paper off the roll, wiping her private area and throwing it in the toilet and that’s purely from her observing her siblings.
What do you think of this nurse’s techniques? What do you think of the group training theory? Do you think you can force a child to train before they are ready? Do you think you could do it in a day?
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