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Disclaimer: The following is my account of potty training my daughter, using a particular method*. I am not claiming to be an expert on the subject. However, in 30 years, I’ve 20 years experience with working with kids, including two degrees in education. I’ve taught in middle school and elementary schools, and just finished up my first year in preschool. Again, I am NOT an expert in the matter, but I do feel my combined education and experience makes my account worthwhile. :o)   During the third full week in May, I undertook the daunting task of potty training my daughter, who was 26 months at the time. She was ready; she was more than ready, and I knew it. This just happened to be the first block of time where I could set aside to truly devote to the task. School had finished up the week before, and we had nothing critical that needed to be done. (Gym, schmym – we’re ditching diapers!!) So, I began hyping up going on the potty even more, leading up to that week.   ...

Ditching the Diapers: Potty Training in 3 (or 4) Days Disclaimer: The following is my account of potty training my daughter, using a particular method*. I am not claiming to be an expert on the subject. However, in 30 years, I've 20 years experience with working with kids, including two degrees in education. I've taught in middle school and elementary schools, and just finished up my first year in preschool. Again, I am NOT an expert in the matter, but I do feel my combined education and experience makes my account worthwhile. :o) During the third full week in May, I undertook the daunting task of potty-training my daughter, who was 26 months at the time. She was ready; she was more than ready, and I knew it. This just happened to be the first block of time where I could set aside to truly devote to the task. School had finished up the week before, and we had nothing critical that needed to be done. (Gym, schmym – we're ditching diapers!!) So, I began hypin...

I am just so excited about this, I had to go ahead and give y'all a sneak peek!  I will be conducting a full review later, but I just have to share a little bit with you all NOW!   I recently got a foldable potty seat, from My Precious Kid , to replace my non-foldable potty seat I've been sporting around in a plastic reusable shopping bag for the last three weeks.  The order was finalized on Wednesday, June 8 and arrived today (Monday, June 13) via regular ol' USPS.   Good-bye bulky potty seat! Hello, foldable potty seat! You'll fit nicely in my daughter's bag!  :o) I must admit: I am quite impressed.  Not only with the speediness of the order, but with the product as well.  Although my husband and I hadn't planned on venturing out tonight, I insisted  we go somewhere, just to try it out!  We ended up eating at Target (my love!), and -low and behold!- my little monkey had to go potty.  (Never have I been more excited to hear her u...