What is the most commonly used and most successful method of potty training?
I don’t know that there really is a most common or successful method. I think parents take a lot of advice and try to do the best they can. Sometimes the advice is good, and other times certain ideas that parents are given can be counterproductive and make the process take longer than it needs to. We advocate first understanding your child – our approach uses a child’s temperament as a way to understand how the child tends to operate. The 5 types we identify are: Goal Directed, Impulsive, Internalizer, Sensory Oriented, and Strong Willed. Then, we suggest strategies that are likely to be more effective for a particular temperament. The whole idea is to recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to potty training. But parents know a lot about their child, and by taking cues from their child (in our case, understanding temperament), parents can use strategies that are more likely to stimulate interest and success with their child, while at the same time avoiding strategies tha
