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| |  | Books & DVDs | Home » » Stress-Free Potty Training: A Commonsense Guide to Finding the Right Approach for Your Child | | | | | | | Description: | | No two children experience the toilet-training process in exactly the same way. While some kids might be afraid to even go near the bathroom, others may master the actual act right away. "Stress-Free Potty Training" takes the anxiety out of this challenging rite of passage. The book differentiates the common childhood personality types, providing easy techniques to suit kids who are: goal-oriented, sensory-oriented, internalising, impulsive and strong-willed. Parents will find much needed advice to help them identify what ideas will work for their child's temperament. This straight-talking guide enables readers to help any child make this important life transition free of worry, and in the way that's right for them. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Sara Au | | Paperback:
| 192 pages | | Publisher:
| AMACOM | | Publication Date:
| May 28, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0814401627 | | Product Length:
| 8.93 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.43 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.57 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.63 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 39 reviews |
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48 of 49 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent advice for any situationJun 11, 2008
By M. Steinhaus
This book is great!! It offers specific, easy to follow advice based on your child's individual temperment... We started potty training before reading this book. It's our first child and I've been working on tips and advice from various sources... This book seems to put it all together... I've found myself in nearly exact situations this book has described-- and it definately offers some techniques I hadn't thought of or tried...
Basically, if you're not committed to one style or method --and why would you be, every child is different-- this is an excellent book with a wide variety of techniques, advice and tools to help make this experience as pleasant as can be for you and your little one!
40 of 42 found the following review helpful:
I Wish I Had Read This Book a Year AgoMay 04, 2009
By Mother of Twins
This book gives great, sound advice that tells you how to tailor your potty training to your child's personality.
You first take a quiz to determine your child's personality type, then it gives you universal potty training techniques followed by techniques for each of the 5 personality types.
It teaches you ways to prepare your child for potty-training months before you actually think you'll go diaper-free, so read this early--when your child is around 12-18 months.
Just before I read this book, I started my 3rd attempt at potty-training my nearly 3 year old twin boys and was finally having some success. When I read it, a lot of the the tips it gave were the things I had already figured out after much trial and error (and frustration). If I had read this book a year ago, I think I would have saved myself much of that frustration.
19 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Very Helpful InfoJul 27, 2008
By B. Smarsh
This book has really helped me with, even more than potty training my daughter (which worked!!), but alleviating my worries - I didn't want to put pressure on her, but I also needed to get her trained before she started school. I thought it would take all Summer, but it didn't!! Great advice, great stories. I highly recommend this book for first time, nervous parents.
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Good recommendations, but didn't exactly recognize my child's personality typeFeb 01, 2009
By zhuhua
This was the only book I read in preparation for potty-training my son. I found several of the book's recommendations useful, particularly the one about letting your child run around naked. However, I didn't find the toddler typology around which the book is structured particularly useful in my case, because I couldn't recognize my son's personality in any single type. I doubt my son is that unique; perhaps I over-analyzed him. In any case, readers of this book should read broadly and not rely solely on the recommendations in any single section.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Format, Intelligent & Well-ResearchedJun 28, 2009
By M. Clayton
Admittedly, I've read my fair share of potty-training tomes touting the "one-day-and-you're-done" theories and have only become more intimidated & frustrated, further from potty training our toddler than before. Therefore I was skeptical as I believe potty training is not "Stress-Free" but I now believe that the subtitle "Common Sense" is much more applicable after reading Dr. Stavinoha's book. His approach is just what we have searched for & intuitively knew: not all children are the same (and why would we want that?).
However, after reading "Stress Free", I was relieved to learn that we're not the only family for whom this is a tough process (and no, it is NOT done in a day) and that like most people we are not behind because we didn't train my child as 3 month old infant. In fact, once I read the book, I was confident that my child can learn quickly when we're aware of the signs (that she's ready) and we're consistent.
This book is a fairly quick read with well organized & concise with an emphasis listening to your child, maintaining a consistent routine & once you've begun, he recommends encouraging your child with love & affection rather than stickers, toys, gadgets, et al --- common sense, indeed! I highly recommend this book and am grateful for my good friend who told me about it, too. Best of luck & don't fret: your child won't go to college in diapers!
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