Potty Training in 3 Days

The Step-by-Step Plan for a Clean Break from Dirty Diapers

By: Brandi Brucks

Narrated by: Kim Handysides

Length: 1 hr and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Go from dirty diapers to successfully potty trained in 3 days!

Potty training doesn’t have to be hard. Filled with expert advice accrued over thousands of cases, Potty Training in 3 Days makes it easy to get your child to start using the toilet. Detailed instructions, complete with practical advice, take you through preparing for potty training, the three days of training, and what to do afterward.

Is it time for your child to use the potty? Then, Potty Training in 3 Days is the audiobook for you.

Potty Training in 3 Days includes:

• A proven plan: Potty train your child in just three days with a five-step plan that includes useful tips and tricks for succeeding every step of the way.
• Insight into your child: Understand what’s going on in your child’s head, learn how to recognize when they’re ready for potty training, and more.
• Ways to stay cool: Keep calm through every accident, thanks to a kind and conversational approach that takes the stress out of potty training.

Say bye-bye to diapers with Potty Training in 3 Days.

Potty Training in 3 Days is expertly narrated by Kim Handysides, 2019 winner of the SOVAS Best Voiceover in Audiobook Educating or Business award. This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2016 Brandi Brucks §

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016 Brandi Brucks (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

It actually worked

I used these steps and my 2 year old is now potty trained. Thank you!!!

it's effective

this was intimidating for my family. we are both active duty military and took leave for this. if it didn't work out we would have found ourselves in a tough spot. we both listened to this book more than once starting 3 weeks prior to the potty training day. our daughter is 3 1/2 and her older age made us nervous.
we followed her, very clear but very scary instructions exactly. we were scared because her advice took us completely out of our comfort zones. however we followed her advice on each step of the process and we are diaper free. I fact we have been diaper free since day 1 and have only had 2 accidents. I will be recommending this book to all parents potty training and I will use this with our youngest child when the time comes.
honestly, we are exhausted buy our little potty princess is proud and happy of her accomplishment and we are too. no more diapers!!!!

good read.

absolutely loved it. Now just have to figure out the timing on how to introduce this and potty train twin boy's at the same time.

Great manual, if you skip certain parts

This might be the first review I have ever actually written for anything, but I had pretty strong feelings about this book.

Overall, I think it is a great plan and would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a pared-down approach to potty training, with the specific caveats I will mention below. I heard great things about the "Oh Crap" method, but that book was 8 hours, I work full-time and this is my second kid; I do not have time for that. After listening to "Potty Training in 3 Days," and following the guidelines closely, we are currently finished with day 1 and my 29 month old daughter is already telling us when she needs to go! Major success, so far!

My first, very minor, critique is that Brucks recommends getting rid of all your diapers, then buying nighttime pull-ups for your child to use as "sleeping underwear" so they understand that it's different. Later, she says to put regular underwear over them. Why not save some money and just use the pull-ups you already had under the underwear, then, if the kid can't see it anyway?

The part I would recommend to just ignore entirely is the author's recommendation of scolding and punishment for public accidents in the chapter titled "After the three days, Step 4: Accidents". Brucks says "It bothers me when people tell their kids, 'It's okay, accidents happen ... It shouldn't, at this point, be okay for your child to pee anywhere other than the toilet." I have been a teacher of young children for 14 years, and I have never met a child who had malicious toileting accidents. Little people (certainly up to first grade) get excited, distracted, nervous, shy, or experience any number of physical or psychological reasons for having accidents, many of which she has just gone over at the beginning of the chapter. She goes on to recommend parents respond to accidents that happen in public by telling the child, "Oh no! You peed on the floor at ____. I don't have extra clothes for you now, so your underwear is going to be wet until we get home." I listened to this part several times, but could not come to any other conclusion than she is implying parents intentionally not pack extra clothes for their children once they seem to have mastered potty training, since they should know better and deserve to suffer if they don't. My older daughter was one of those kids who somehow mastered using the toilet by 18 months and almost never had an accident, but I can remember a time she was almost 4 and wet herself at a children's museum. She was so embarrased and my husband and I had forgotten extra clothes - I remember spending a long time trying to dry her underwear out in the hand dryer. The point is, we don't always know why our children have accidents, but everyone (probably even Brandi Brucks!) makes mistakes. Forcing a child to wear soiled clothes because "there are consquences to actions, so this is a lesson to be learned" as Brucks goes on to tell parents to say, sounds borderline abusive to me.

Great advice and plan

This was a well articulated plan. It helped us potty train our almost 21 month old in 3 days. It was what we needed. As parents, it can be hard to hear things like "your baby isn't a baby anymore" but phrases and notions like these were exactly what we needed to hear to be successful. I also appreciated the encouragement provided. After an abysmal day 2, the encouragement got us back on our feet for an excellent day 3. Thank you for your guidance and for this plan.

Quick and easy listen

I haven't implemented the plann yet but I definitely see where I went wrong with training him and going back to diapers and not setting aside time to fully train him knowing he is ready but we weren't because we never fully focused on it. Can't wait to start.

Fantastic

This potty training method really works! And the author/ narrator was amusing, personable, and knowledgeable.

Great guide and amazing results

We had slowly introduced the potty to our toddler prior, but he only showed partial interest or would hold until he got his diaper back. This book helped us hone in our technique and guide the way. We still had to customize things for our son, like having a night diaper was a crutch for him for two weeks. After we “used the last” night diaper he fully committed to the potty the very next day, including zero accidents and his first poop on the potty.

We are now six weeks potty trained with no accidents and a big attitude shift from our toddler who has the confidence of a big kid. Still not 100% on public toilets but he’s working on it.

great guide

great guide. worked for us. tweeked some things a little because not one thing ever works for all. parenting and teaching is highly specific to each individual child. biggest take away for us for laying boundaries and holding firm and consistent. she got potty training so quick.

Did work for me

The book is based on bribery… that doesn’t work for either one of my kids.