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How to Help Your Potty Training Toddler Conquer the Pants

7 min

How to Help Your Potty Training Toddler Conquer the Pants

Inside: Potty training tips to help your toddler with putting on pants and getting dressed themselves. This content contains affiliate links. One day when I went to pick up my son from his toddler Montessori program, I was surprised to discover that he could put on his snowpants all by himself (at the time he was 19-months-old with other toddlers under 2.5 years old). And it wasn't just him. All his little friends were able to do it, too. We live in the snows-till-April state

How to Avoid the Potty Power Battles With Your Toddler

Jen

6 min

How to Avoid the Potty Power Battles With Your Toddler

Inside: Potty training without the toddler power struggles and meltdowns. This content contains affliate links. Here’s a magic trick I love to watch whenever I get the chance. Sitting in on my kiddos Montessori class, I watch as the teacher moves through the changeover in their day and rising volume of 15 preschoolers coming in from an outdoor recess.. She guides them to the next thing (potty, wash hands, get ready for rest time). Without nagging. And these small humans all d

Are You Seeing Strong Resistance to the Potty at Daycare?

Jen

6 min

Are You Seeing Strong Resistance to the Potty at Daycare?

Sometimes your child is using the potty at home but then when returning to daycare, you hear your toddler refuses to sit on the potty.

3 Simple Rules to Stop Toddler Resistance to the Potty

Jen

5 min

3 Simple Rules to Stop Toddler Resistance to the Potty

Inside: Use these 3 rules for bringing down toddler resistance to go pee in the potty or take a potty break. This content contains affiliate links. When my daughter was an infant, I saw for the first time how FAST things evolve with your child, and how you have to keep shifting what works (when it no longer works.) How to hold her comfortably in a carrier shifted as she got heavier and heavier. How to safely change her diaper shifted as her bum got wigglier and wigglier. And

5 Little Reasons Why Potty Training May Look Like A Big Mess

Jen

3 min

5 Little Reasons Why Potty Training May Look Like A Big Mess

Inside: Here are 5 common problems that get in the way of potty learning when you start potty training your toddler. This content contains affiliate links. When I first became a mama, we lived in Brooklyn, a short walk from a special baby shop stocked with carefully-curated supplies and shopkeepers who helped with the hows, whats, and whys of everything from cloth diapering to babywearing. (What a support to live by such a helpful resource!) And here’s what I did — I got supp

How to Celebrate the Small Wins in Potty Training

Jen

4 min

How to Celebrate the Small Wins in Potty Training

Inside: How praise can help your toddler feel more confident and help bring potty training success. This content contains affiliate links. They say the words we say to our children become their inner dialogue. If we’re always quick to say no you can’t, you never do, or in potty training, if we’re repeatedly saying throughout the day, for days.. Pee goes in the potty, not on the floor then it's not so surprising some toddlers will shut down. Stop hearing us. That's when you se

What Happens When You Team Up with Your Child? (Hint: Potty Wins)

Jen

3 min

What Happens When You Team Up with Your Child? (Hint: Potty Wins)

Inside: How to stop the power battles with your child over going pee in the potty. This content contains affiliate links. You can muscle your way through being tired (with a needed cup of coffee). You can power your way through an intense workout (with some good music). But you can’t power battle your child over peeing in the potty. You’ll lose. I’ve heard parents at the brink of desperation try seemingly everything to get their child to just sit on the potty and pee. Everyth

A Day in the Life of How to Potty Train a Toddler

Jen

5 min

A Day in the Life of How to Potty Train a Toddler

Inside: What's it look like to go around with a diaper-free child? Here's a day in the life of a potty training toddler. This content contains affiliate links. When I was pregnant with my first child, I didn’t seek out everyone’s opinion on everything, but I did reach out for one particular inside peek into what to expect. Other mamas’ birth stories. I wanted to hear as many of the day in the life of what happened when their baby came. I read this book (twice) for in-depth st

Why Does Your Child Refuse to Sit on the Potty?

Jen

6 min

Why Does Your Child Refuse to Sit on the Potty?

Inside: Why does your child refuse to sit on the potty? Are you potty training a stubborn child? Here are early potty training tips for this potty training problem. This content contains affiliate links. Now we can joke about it, but there was a hard season back when my daughter was 3-years-old where we would suddenly — without warning — find ourselves in a scenario that looked like this.. No, MAMA helps me with the car seat. (When look, Dad was right there to help her.) No,

3 Simple Tips for How to Help Your Child Poop in the Potty

Jen

7 min

3 Simple Tips for How to Help Your Child Poop in the Potty

Inside: 3 tips to help your toddler poop in the potty when you start potty training. This content contains affiliate links. It’s ironic how happy-go-lucky the poop emoji looks when you consider how poop can spark overwhelming anxiety in parents who are potty training their toddler. Before the diaper comes off, one worry is what if the poop goes in the wrong place? A poop in your child’s pants. A poop on your floor. Or a poop in the middle of spaghetti dinner night. Right ther

1 Simple Reason to Wait on the Underwear

Jen

4 min

1 Simple Reason to Wait on the Underwear

Inside: Why you should wait on underwear when you start potty training your toddler. This post contains affiliate links. Dinosaurs. Peppa Pig. Thomas the Train. Princesses. Superheroes. All have one thing in common. Those friendly characters can incentivize strong-willed toddlers to do something. But here’s the thing. Even fairy princesses and flying heroes can fail to magically keep away a spiral of pee and poop accidents in the early days of potty training. There’s a sneaky

Are Rewards the Magic Trick to Potty Training?

Jen

7 min

Are Rewards the Magic Trick to Potty Training?

Inside: Here are 5 things to consider before trying rewards in potty training your toddler. This content contains affiliate links. Once on a phone consultation call with a mom, sharing potty training issues she was having with her son, I heard her voice suddenly trail off to a whisper.. I did the thing I know the book says not to do. I gave him a gummy candy for peeing in the potty. Her voice sounded embarrassed. Like a confessional where you’re waiting to hear an I told you

Here are the Essentials You Need for Potty Training

Jen

7 min

Here are the Essentials You Need for Potty Training

Inside: Want a checklist of essentials for potty training? Here's an Oh Crap Potty Training checklist for you. This content contains affiliate links. When I was searching for a yearly planner (yep, still carry around a paper planner!), I looked for two things. Could I make to-do lists on the sides? Did it make me happy to look at daily? I found my perfect planner (hoping I can find the same design next year), and it’s so far kept me on track for the year with my neverending l

Why Do You See Potty Accidents During the Holidays?

Jen

7 min

Why Do You See Potty Accidents During the Holidays?

Here's why we often see a backslide of potty training accidents during the holidays. This content contains affiliate links. Sugar cookies in the shape of snowmen, sure you can have another. Later-than-usual evenings watching a parade of lights swing through town (with cookies and cocoa in hand.) And about 582 things to remember to shop for, wrap up nicely, and make. The holidays look different than the rest of the year. You do more. You eat differently. And everyone’s running

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