Product ReviewsThe No-Cry Potty solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Child to Say Goodbye to Nappies
Number of reviews: 1 Overall score:  Potty training guide book Available from www.amazon.co.uk, price £4.19 The only book you need for successful potty trainingParent Panel review by Caroline - review date 29 January 2007Author: Elizabeth Pantley Publisher: McGraw-Hill What it's all about: It's potty training the Pantley way! It takes you through everything you could possibly want to know about potty training and helps you to work out when your baby is ready for this step. Presentation: Handy lists of items you might need and safety checks for your home, wonderful pictures of kids on their various potties, seat reducers and indeed the big loo. Easy to digest chapters deal with all aspects of the process and a handy 'quiz' that will help you determine your child's readiness for the potty. Tone and target audience: If you're familiar with Elizabeth Pantley's other books, this one is simply the next step. She is candid, supportive, and most importantly makes you realise that each child is different and so is each family. This is not HOW to do potty training, it's how to work out when your child is ready, when you're ready, what you need, what you don't need, and some tips and tricks to make the process as stress free as possible for all. I am now a firm believer that despite the fact that we've been regular potty users since Xander was about 6 months old, there's absolutely no point in forcing the issue of actually coming out of nappies until he's giving us all the right signs. Most importantly there not even a hint of what you MUST do, or SHOULD do or indeed WHEN you should do it - it's an information aid, a source of guidance and support and (I will report back shortly on whether this is true for us) but I'd reckon sure fire success without any tears or tantrums (from either trainer or trainee!!). The good points: All the handy hints, the genuinely supportive tone and the great pictures. The bad points: You have to wait until your child is ready to put all the great ideas into practice - it MAKES you appreciate how great a virtue patience is which is hard when we're living our lives in a big fat hurry.
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