Product Description

Gina Ford is the queen of routine, and one area she knows from experience that can be a big, scary hurdle for parents is potty training. The good news is that it's very easy when you know all the tips and tricks and there is no need for tantrums or endless hours spent sitting with a toddler who refuses to go potty. This clearly organised book answers all your questions and makes potty training easy, and even fun. You will quickly learn: how to know when your child is really ready; how to make potty training fun for your child; how to reward; how to deal with little accidents; why you need a potty for upstairs and for downstairs; and how to help your child get over bed-wetting. With a little know-how from one of the UK's leading parenting authors, potty training will be as easy as A, B, C.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #415 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

You Magazine
‘The Delia Smith of parenting… for the many thousands who’ve tried it, Gina’s book is a Godsend’

The Daily Telegraph
‘for an astonishing number of mothers, she has proved a saviour. "Gina babies", as they are known, are happy and they sleep’

Synopsis
Gina Ford is the queen of routine, and one area she knows from experience that can be a big, scary hurdle for parents is potty training. The good news is that it's very easy when you know all the tips and tricks and there is no need for tantrums or endless hours spent sitting with a toddler who refuses to go potty. This clearly organised book answers all your questions and makes potty training easy, and even fun. You will quickly learn: how to know when your child is really ready; how to make potty training fun for your child; how to reward; how to deal with little accidents; why you need a potty for upstairs and for downstairs; and how to help your child get over bed-wetting. With a little know-how from one of the UK's leading parenting authors, potty training will be as easy as A, B, C.

Customer Reviews

A typical Gina Ford book, OK if your child conforms to a strict regime.
I made the mistake of buying this book. As with other Gina Ford books if your child doesn't conform to her regime you feel inadequate and disappointed. She advises on day one (after they have proved they can do wee and poos on potty) to confine toddler in one room all day and repeatedly put them on the potty!! No way! I think I lasted half an hour and I got cabin fever. I found "No-cry Potty Training Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Child Say Good-bye to Diapers" by Elizabeth Pantley far more helpful and reassuring. Gina Ford does make things seem so easy, but she isn't training her own child and the whole thing can get emotional. In the Pantley book she says it can take up to 12 months before they get completly dry and with some I think it's true, just get plenty of pants.

my son was dry on the 3rd day
i found this book a huge help. my son only had acsident on the 1st two day. i know this was down to my son not the book but it helped my make a start.

Potty trained in one week....who is she kidding?
You can't fault her style or clarity, but this book should come with a sanity warning. The programme probably does work but (and this is a big but) your child has to be ready and predisposed to the Gina Ford technique. We had followed a lot of her advice in Contented Baby etc and so were pretty positive about it, but, ended up having to abandon the Gina Ford way of potty training because of the tantrums and tears (and not just the baby's). To be fair, the book makes it clear you can potty-train in one week...but only if your child is ready. And there's lots of good advice on familiarising your child with what will happen and sensible comments on how parents need to prepare themselves too. But nothing really your health visitor couldn't tell you or which you couldn't get off the net. And I think there's another caveat. Your child has to have the "right" personality. My son is very wilful and we abandoned the Gina Ford technique on our third attempt. Her answer would probably be "well, then he isn't ready," but at nearly 3 he should be (our health visitor agrees and, believe me I have devoted weeks to it pretty much full time). All following the Gina Ford method has achieved (apart from making us feel bad)is a power struggle and we are now having to back-track and try to undo some of the damage. No doubt it works well for some, but they're probably the kids who would be easy to potty train in any case.