I Don't Want To Go To The Toilet Paperback – March 1, 2011

This book is one of the best I've ever Amazon purchases I've made and I am so thankful to all the other reviewers for recommending this one. It is such a gentle, easy, smart approach. My 3 year old had started to use the potty around 2 but then went to exclusivly pullups and refused to even sit on a little potty. After browsing amazon for some help last month and investing in a ton of panties I ordered this book and the potty stools that help to poop on the toilet. (After you buy this book stop what you're doing and order the "poop stool!") Best money ever spent hands down. After reading the book together multiple times the first day and introducing the stool she decided she would be wearing her big girl panties and was very proud of herself for learning how her body works. I believe that is a big part of her finding comfort and relating to the stories. She now understands her bodies signals thanks to this and has been pooping and peeing at home and when out ever since. When she feels uneasy we read the book again. Only a few weeks in and she is mostly dry at night as well. I bought a second book for my nephew and will update once I hear how he has taken to it. Trash your other potty books, seriously. The section in the back for parents and caregivers, share it with friends. Print out the tips and send it to your little ones preschool or daycare. The confidence this gives toddlers and parents to get through potty training is 5 stars alone.

I gave this four stars for one thing. There is a very simple picture of what body organs are used when your drink something and when you eat something. That alone is worth buying the book for. My three year old loves those pictures so much I taped them on the wall in front of the toilet. She tells me, "When I drink something, it goes to my tummy, then to my kidneys to my bladder and then I let it out. When I eat an apple it goes to my tummy, then my intestines squish up and the left overs come out as poop" The book is also informative on some difficult potty trainers for the parent, another reason why I bought it. My daughter is scared to poop in the potty and this has some creative solutions and warns about constipation for those that like to withhold their poop. The only reason I didn't give it five stars was the verbage of the stories for the poop one. I find it dorky and it did not appeal to my daughter either. "you pesky poop, you come out". yeah, Im sure the problem is not about commanding something. I even tried to change it up, but it just doesn't fit the picture. Still worth buying, especially before you start potty training.

My son was pooping his pants everyday for months. We were gifted “everybody poops” and he liked reading it so I bought this book and “where do you poop?” He asked me to read them over and over again. I knew he had to go so I sat him on the toilet. He tried to quickly get off but I started distracting him with a game (guess what shape I’m holding behind my back? Which I make with my hands). He loved it and sat and I kept saying relax and try to get your poop out but then would keep making shapes and numbers to distract him. I said you can do it like Ben from this story. It’s only been 2 days but he’s had no accidents and has asked me to take him to the potty to poop multiple times… their is hope. Oh also I kept telling him these books were gifts from various family members and not from me so that he felt special every time one arrived. He’s 3.5 btw.

I have never written a customer review on Amazon before...But this time I had to. My 3 year old son was withholding his stool for 9 months. It was horrendous. He was put on a high dose of Miralax, saw an occupational therapist and a GI but nothing at all helped. We went through 9 months of him each night screaming for up to 3 hours while trying to hold it in. It was so awful and typically ended with all of us in tears because we couldn't stand to see him so uncomfortable. No matter what we tried or how much we explained to him that it was safe to go and important to poop, nothing worked. We didn't even attempt potty training (he's still in diapers) because all we wanted was for him to poop without fear, stress, and tears. (We will tackle potty training later.) In a last ditch effort, I bought two books. This book and "Softy the Poop". Over a four day period, I read them both to him dozens of times, and reiterated much of the language that the authors used over and over again when I spoke to him about pooping. Miraculously and suddenly, after 4 days, my 3 year old began pooping without pain, withholding, or tears. He initially would say "I'm a little scared but I know it's good to go." And now he doesn't even say that. If anything, he is so proud of himself after pooping! The last two weeks have been an absolute miracle in our house. When he has to go, he just tells us, asks for a hand to hold, and poops. The doctors/therapists were all shocked that books fixed a problem that they could not, but I'm eternally grateful to this book and the author.

My son was having problems potty training with poos. My pediatrician recommended this book to help him along. The book seems excellent. It is divided into 2 sections, one dedicated to wees and one to poos. I read the poo section to my son, and he listened, but then he wanted to read the other story about the wees. I tried to distract him, but he was having none of it. I eventually gave in and read it to him..boy was I sorry. Within the next few days he started wetting himself again. It didn't occur to me straight away that reading the wee section in this book had given him the idea, until he directly said to me that it was ok for the little girl in the book to have accidents, so he had them too!Just a word of warning to anyone out there training their kids just for poos, don't read the wees section to your kids..or if you do, just explain to them that they don't need to have accidents now.I was disappointed, as I'd such high hopes for this book. In saying that, the literature in the book for the parent to read is very informative.

We have read the two stories with my son several times but I haven’t read the parenting section yet. We are hopeful it is a good story to refer to as we try revisiting potty training with my reluctant son.