It's POTTY time!

Potty training often creates dread and frustration. Just saying the words "potty training" almost feels like life needs to insert a big dramatic "dun dun dun" like Hollywood adds to dramatic scenes in movies. Parents hate it. Kids are terrified of it. Caregivers feel annoyed by it. Potty training is scary. So much bodily fluid potentially all over your house...

But what if it didn't have to be scary? What if the problem isn't in potty training itself, but in our ideas of potty training? What if instead we started to see potty training as, wait for it, normal?

Everyone goes. No one wants to change diapers forever. The natural result is that we need to teach our children how to go in the toilet.

How did you learn your ABCs? Were you handed a college textbook as a child and told "here, read. you now have all the tools you need!" Most likely not. You were probably taught the song. And shown pictures of letters. And started with age appropriate toys and books. You learned each letter had a name and a sound or sounds. You learned how to put the sounds together to make blends, short words, and soon were reading. No one expects a child to just start reading without any training, because it is a process. Potty training is the exact same way. Often parents think that just by putting a child in a pull up or in cute character underwear that the child should suddenly know how to use the potty, but they ignore the process. This causes so many frustrations that sometimes potty training is abandoned altogether for awhile when really the issue is lack of knowledge of the process.

I want to help you learn the process so that you can have less frustrations. I want potty training to be a pleasant experience, and for it to be a normal part of life. I want to take the pressure off you and your child. Every single child goes through the process at a unique pace. Some go through it quite quickly and only have one or two accidents and are suddenly done. Others take a much longer time and have many accidents a day. I want to help families understand that each child is unique and when he or she gets potty trained is really up to them. It is the parent's job to give them the tools to succeed and to establish that using the toilet is normal.

Won't you let me help you?