Toilet Training: The Brazelton Way

Toilet training is a job for the child and not the parent, and by trying to force the issue or even encourage too hard, parents can set the stage for trouble. Toilet Training: The Brazelton Way [Potty Training Book] that helps to give you the knowledge you need to successfully navigate potty training.

By "listening to the child," parents will know when their child is ready, and by guiding children in a series of gentle small steps, parentscan help them make the accomplishment on their own.

A generation and more of children have been potty trained "the Brazelton way," and now he and Dr. Sparrow have distilled this advice into one priceless guide, Toilet Training: The Brazelton Way.

They first lay out the Touchpoints approach to the issue (a "mistake" can mean the child is making progress on some other front), then discuss the timing of this big achievement, and finally deal with how to respond if problems occur.

For parents who want to get past this issue cheerfully, with the least fuss and turmoil, this is a great book to help you obtain that goal!

About the Author:

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital Boston, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development at Brown University. He is a famed advocate for children, and his many other internationally acclaimed books for parents include To Listen to a Child, Infants and Mothers, and, with Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,The Irreducible Needs of Children.

Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D child psychiatrist and supervisor of inpatient psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of Training at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center. He is co-author with Dr. Brazelton of Touchpoints Three to Six and several titles in the Brazelton Way.

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