Diaper-Free Before 3 - Jill Lekovic, M.D.

Diaper-Free Before 3

By Jill Lekovic, M.D.

  • Release Date: 2006-04-25
  • Genre: Parenting
Score: 4
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Description

Conventional wisdom tells parents that they should delay potty training to toddler age, and only after seeing signs of readiness. But is that really the best way?

In Diaper-Free Before 3, Dr. Jill Lekovic presents the new case that early training--beginning as early as nine months olds--is most natural, healthy, and beneficial for your child, based on medical evidence. By incoporating the potty into your child's routine early on, toilet training becomes far less stressful for both parent and child. Dr. Lekovic's method, which she has used successfully with her own kids and recommends to patients, helps children become better aware of their body's signals, boosts confidence, and decreases the risk of urinary health problems.

The guide includes informative chapters on bedwetting, accidents, and adapting the method for day care, special-needs children, and older toddlers. Offering a technique that really works and turns toilet training into a positive experience, Diaper-Free Before 3 is sure to become a new parenting classic.

Reviews

  • Best, natural & gentle approach to toilet learning.

    5
    By MontessoriMothering
    This is by far the best book about toileting! As an infant-parent educator & toddler teacher, and mother of two preschoolers, the common sense wisdom presented in this book has been invaluable to me, and all the families I have worked with. I can nit sing the praises of this book enough! I wish every parent of a newborn would be given this book (or the information) at their first pediatrician appointment. Having said this, I strongly disagree with her positions on cloth diapers & circumcision. (The limited, and skewed, information about circumcision is especially concerning, as it is permanent & is particularly important to have complete & accurate information before deciding what is appropriate for your son!) Apart from these issues, the information about toileting itself is excellent.