Potty Training Box FAQ’s
Practice, practice, practice and frequent rewards. Potty training your child in a week is an intensive undertaking, but totally worth it. Plan a week at home so that you can give your child your full attention. Not in a position to do a week of intensive training? Then wait until you are, and plan when that will be. The time you put into this is more than worth it.
Everything we sell here is digital, so you start the moment you buy. You get the day-by-day program: what to do on each of the seven days, what to say when it goes wrong, how to move from the potty to the toilet, and how the reward system tapers off so you can stop without a fight. The sticker cards, the tracking schedule and the certificate are yours to print at home.
After the week your child will be potty trained during the daytime. Nighttime is deliberately not part of this program; it is not worth the effort at this stage. At first your child will still poo in a diaper at night, later just pee a little, and after a few months they will usually stay dry at night on their own.
From 2 years of age, often even earlier. At this point your child is generally able to walk independently and tell you what they want, which is important for this program. Take a look at the signals.
Definitely. 2 years is the starting age. The program works for older children too; its core principles are giving your child attention and rewards – children of all ages will respond to that.
We are often asked this question. Providing a guarantee is difficult seeing as the results depend on how the program is carried out. We have taken the feasibility of the program into account in a variety of ways. For example, we advise that you start from 2½ years of age. You can often start a short while after your child has turned two, but we recommend 2½ so that we can be more sure of it working. There are also potty training programs that claim to get your child to “stay dry in 3 days”. Our program takes 7 days so that you can get some extra practice with holding pee for longer and short trips away from home. In this way you’re sure to succeed!
It’s better not to practice using a potty before starting this program. We do use a potty for the first 3 days of the program. If you have been practising with a potty or on the toilet, it’s not a problem.
The intention should never be to force something. You can teach your child. Just as with learning to ride a bike, you get the hang of it quicker when somebody lends a helping hand. Our program advises you on how you can respond to your child: by being enthusiastic and ensuring that they have fun.
It’s just like learning to ride a bike. Once you know how, you’ll always be able to do it. You just need to keep practicing. Your child will be potty trained in one week and from then on you keep going. The chance that they regress is small, certainly smaller than when you practice with the potty in an unstructured way.
We read a lot about potty training and we potty trained our three children. We developed this program based on these experiences and we focused on making it as easy as possible.
No, we are the parents of three sweet and head-strong children. We have accomplished a lot with experience, logical thinking and a great deal of creativity. The program has been reviewed by childcare experts, a child psychologist, a journalist and a business person.
Yes, as part of the video course. The full handbook comes with it as a PDF: the same seven-day method written out, for when you would rather read ahead or print a page. The course walks you through that method in forty short videos, three minutes each, grouped per day, with printable sticker cards, a tracking schedule, a pee and a poop certificate, and a digital AI coach you can put a question to at eleven at night on day four. If you bought the handbook on its own before and cannot find your download, use the form at the bottom of this page.
Yes, and none of it is special. A potty for the first three days, borrow one if you can. A toilet seat reducer and a step stool for when you move to the toilet. Ten to fifteen pairs of underwear. Something to protect your furniture: cut-open bin bags with towels over them work fine. Pull-up diapers for bedtime. And ten small presents, a dollar or two each, for the full sticker cards.
The sticker cards, the schedule and the certificate you print yourself; they come with the program.
Every child is unique and you are often the best judge of what works for your child. Instead of rewarding with presents, you can go for something different. Perhaps you could call grandma and grandpa to tell them about your progress. Or perhaps you could let your child stay up a little longer or watch a bit more television.
Presents do tend to work, as long as you are consistent with them. Every full sticker card comes with a reward. If you are enthusiastic, your child will be too!
The private Facebook community belonged to the physical Potty Training Box, which we no longer ship to the United States. It is not part of the video course.
The video course does include a digital AI coach: you can ask it a question at any hour and describe what is actually happening, which is usually what you need at the difficult moment rather than the next morning.
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That’s great if you can potty train your child without our program. Our main concern is that you go ahead and do it. We want to help people and motivate them to start. We want other parents to experience how nice it is when a child is potty trained early. The program emphasizes giving your child attention and aims to be easy to use; as a parent you’re often busy enough without having to work out how to use it. Our program takes care of everything for you.
Looking for a good book about using the potty/toilet? This is a great option: The Perfect Potty Zoo
Is your child a perfectionist and do they become (slightly) hysterical after having an accident? This book, Meekoo and the Big Red Potty, can help. It carefully explains that accidents can happen and that it’s not such a big deal. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Yes. If the course is not for you, email us at info@pottytrainingbox.com within 30 days of your purchase and we refund you, no questions asked. The course is delivered online, so there is nothing to send back. The details, including the statutory right of withdrawal for customers in the European Union, are on our refunds page.
