Toilet Training: The Brazelton Way

Parents will welcome Dr. Brazelton's uniquely helpful approach to this inevitable and often trying issue. A generation and more of children have successfully trained ' the Brazelton way' and now he and Dr Sparrow have distilled this advice into one priceless little guide. By recognizing certain signs, parents will know when children are ready, and through a series of gentle, small steps, parents can help them make the accomplishment their own. To get past this issue with the least fuss and turmoil, this is the one and only one guide to follow.

Contents

Toilet learning: The child's role
The touchpoints of toilet training
Preparing the way
The newborn touchpoint
2 months
5 months
7-8 months
10-12 months
18 months
Early signs of readiness
2 years
Toilet training: Step by step
3-5 years
Toilet training problems and solutions
Bedwetting (Nocturnal Enuresis)
Body exploration
Childcare and toilet training
Constipation, soiling, megacolon
Diapers: cloth or disposable
Diaper rash
Diarrhea
Fear of flushing
Preschool pressure
Pressure from grandparents and others
Sibling rivalry and setbacks
Standing to urinate
Stools and urine
Training pants and diaper refusal
Travel and toilet training
Urinary infections

About the Authors

T Berry Brazelton is the founder of the Prestigious Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital Boston and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.

Joshua D Sparrow is Supervisor of Inpatient Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 

Target Audience: General public, parents.