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What do you guys think about this??

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25057503/

I don't really know a lot about potty training because we are still a ways off from that stage, but potty training in one day sounds a little doubtful to me. But I guess it's worth a try. If I was going to try it I'd probably read the book the article mentions and do it myself, rather than pay to go to the camp.

I didn't call it Booty Camp, but I did all my kids this way. The boys were trained, basically, in one day. One had no accidents thereafter and the youngest (recently trained) had a couple of accidents the 2nd day. My daughter took a litle more time. She still had occasional accidents for about a week or two. But, overall, she did pretty well. I did all of mine right at their 2nd birthday--not more than two months after.

I agree with the parts I read. You don't ask them if they need to go to the potty. You just sit them there. I did it every 30 min or so. In my case, I let them go 'bottomless' that first day. I don't know if it helps or not, but I like to think that it does.

It really isn't that hard. You just have to dedicate yourself to "this is the day we are going to potty train".

It sounds like the key is the age. The Booty Camp trainer said she doesn't even try until they are 2 1/2. The cognitive understanding and intrinsic motivation seem the most important elements of this approach.

FM, that's encouraging that it is possible!

Yeah, I think timing has a lot to do with it. They need to be old enough to understand, but also, I think it is probably easier to do it before they get too determined to do things their own way. I agree with the trainer that the parent has to show that he/she is in charge. As in any situation, the child will be the boss if you allow it.

The thing that is weird about my experience is that I've always heard that girls are easier to train than boys.... but mine were the opposite. Unless, I've been hearing it wrong all my life!

Yeah, I agree, that is encouraging. We have a couple of friends that really struggled with potty training for months and months, so it's hard to imagine doing it in one day. But, I also have another friend that potty trained her first child at only 16 months and said it was pretty easy... I'll probably be calling her for tips when the time comes!

One thing that I found helpful was to ditch the little potty and get one of those converter seats for the big potty. It is too easy to get up when their feet are on the ground.

I started potty training my oldest when he was about 20 months and it took forever, that is until I started using stickers to reward him. It worked like a charm, it only took a few weeks after I started the stickers. I would buy cool sheets of stickers at the dollar tree and let him pick which one he got. A smaller one for TT-ing and a big sticker for pooping in the potty, I would also let him stick it where ever he wanted (other than walls, furniture, etc) With my LO I am going to start the sticker thing (I just hope he likes stickers as much as my oldest does) and just use the regular toilet with a step stool, those potty chairs never did help me out any. He wanted to use the "big boy potty" when he went.