Let's Get This Potty Started!: The BabyShrink's Guide to Potty Training Your Toddler

The thought of teaching a toddler to put their poopy in the potty can strike fear into the heart of even a seasoned parent. One thing is for sure: the advice and support you get along the way can make the difference between laughter and tears (and not just your child's!). Let's Get This Potty Started! is chock-full of grab-and-go tips, from common readiness signs, to strategies tailored for different kid-personalities and different sexes, to secret-weapon "parenting scripts" for tricky moments. It's also loaded with every potty training pun to make it fun for parents to read. It gives parents answers to common questions they're sometimes afraid to ask: Do potty bribes really work? What about potty boot camps? And: Help! My son has to be potty trained by the time he enters preschool--what now? There's no better guide to this major parenting rite of passage than Dr. Heather Wittenberg. Dr. Heather is a hands-on mom of four who also happens to be a psychologist and nationally recognized parenting expert--she's someone who really gets why you need to step outside and breathe, and she also has an arsenal of research-backed tips, tricks, and words of encouragement to help you keep your eye on the diaper-free prize. This clearly organized, easy-to-read potty-training road map is the first in a series of "Dr. Heather" books that combines developmental research and the know-how of a mom-in-the-trenches to help you sail over parenting's most common hurdles. Remember, they don't call them milestones for nothing!

Dr. Heather Wittenberg is, first and foremost, a working mom of four amazing kids. But she is also a practicing psychologist who specializes in the development of babies and young children, and a nationally known parenting writer, speaker, television guest expert, and blogger. Through clients and partners like the Learning Care Group, Huggies, the University of Hawai'i, and Parents.com, Dr. Heather's advice--based in neuroscience, road-tested in the real world, and translated into the grab-and-go terms that busy parents need--has reached hundreds of thousands of families. Dr. Heather is also the force behind BabyShrink.com, an online forum for parents to troubleshoot the challenges and celebrate the awesomeness of raising young children. Over the years, Dr. Heather has helped BabyShrink's parent community solve their most difficult sleeping, pooping, crying, and eating challenges, and has discussed parenting issues as wide-ranging as: How do I handle sibling rivalry when my older one is still a toddler? What is kindergarten readiness? How do I teach empathy to my child? And is it okay if I can't breastfeed my baby? Whatever parenting curveballs you can throw at her, you'll find Dr. Heather a sympathetic listener, a practical advice-giver, and darned good company.