Potty Training

I am going to make a statement and you have to take my word on this one. Potty training is not an innate behavior. In other words, your child was not born with the ability to potty train. Pay close attention to what I am about to tell you. This is the whole secret. Potty Training is a learned behavior. There I said it.

But many people in the medical community tell you otherwise. They tell you to wait. They tell you your child will let you know when he/she is ready. Think about it for a second. If your child is telling you they have to go, did they not already learn the behavior? The answer is yes. The problem is they learned on their own. Doing it this way can take a significantly longer time to achieve success...And some kids never learn at all.

Just like your child learns to walk, read, ride a bike, climb stairs...Potty training is learned. If you do not teach them, they will not learn it. So the conventional wisdom of let's wait for them is completely out the door.

Let me give you a few facts:

If potty training is an innate behavior, your child would be born potty trained. What's innate is crying, eating, pooping, peeing. Those are innate. But controlling the bowels is not innate.

Conventional medicine tells you to wait, but how do you explain that some cultures have their kids fully potty trained by age 4 months.