Recommended Reads: Books on Toilet Training

This comprehensive and authoritative self-help guide on bedwetting is written for parents, caregivers, and children (ages six to thirteen). Parents and children can address the challenge of bedwetting together with this delightful book that guides them through Dr. Bennett's Waking Up Dry Program. Includes instruction on behavior management techniques, calendars, contracts, and bedwetting alarms as well as practical tips and easy-to-follow activities.

Potty Training Boys the Easy Way is a pediatrician's guide for navigating the challenges unique to toilet training boys. Boys tend to take longer to be trained, learn this skill at later ages, and have different challenges from girls. Parents will find an accessible plan for getting their son trained quickly, clever games to make learning to use the toilet fun, as well as important tips for handling accidents and setbacks.

In Diaper-Free Before 3, Dr. Jill Lekovic presents the new case that early training--beginning as early as nine months olds--is natural, healthy, and beneficial for your child, based on medical evidence. By incorporating the potty into your child's routine early on, toilet training becomes far less stressful for both parent and child.

A pediatric nurse practitioner offers advice to parents about toilet training, beginning with helping a child through early steps and continuing on to independence. Common setbacks and approaches to overcoming difficulties are discussed. Emphasis is placed on child development and communicating with caregivers, teachers, and grandparents.

A series that continues to celebrate a toddler's world of firsts with board books that reflect two important areas: readiness concepts and body awareness, plus a parent note at the end with suggested activities linked to the story and its theme.

Little Duck learns how to go potty all by himself.

In each story, Lily and Pete search around the house to find their potty at potty-time.

Someone has done business where they're not supposed to, but who was it? Suspense builds as suspects are eliminated: We know it wasn't the baby, or Daddy, or the lion at the zoo. There's a place for everything in this funny and accessible book about the right place for bathroom business.

Little Goldilocks wants to wear underwear--big-girl underwear that's not too silly and not too frilly, but just right. But that means she also needs to find the "just right" potty. Will she know when she needs to go? And will she get to the potty in time?

Children will love following along and lifting the flaps to see the child play, sit on the potty, eat, sit on the potty, sleep, and then sit on the potty...until finally there is success. Written from a child's point of view, this new potty-training book will help children join in the final refrain, "I'm so proud of me!"

Adam avoids accidents. Brianna is busy in the bathroom. Caleb is comfy and clean! Danny and his friends know twenty-six ways to be done with diapers. Rebecca O'Connell's fun, familiar examples and Amanda Gulliver's bright, cheery art help kids practice their potty knowledge and learn their letters, too!

Introducing Pip and Posy from Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press! Pip comes to Posy's house to play, and they have a lovely time. But Pip is having so much fun that he forgets that he needs to use the bathroom.

When Pip goes to Posy's house to play, they are having such a good time that Pip forgets something very important.

Family physician Dr. Todd Spector presents a fresh and outrageously fun way to encourage little boys to give up their diapers. They can try it freestyle (in the backyard!), or give the potty a try with the help of a few props and plenty of imagination. Inspired by Dr. Spector's own experiences potty training his son, this combination of laugh-out-loud scenarios and useful advice turns the dreaded potty-training process into an exciting adventure for all.

Toilet training has never been such an adventure as when it is introduced by popular cartoonist Mo Willems. With his signature humor, the author gently leads children through each step in the process that will finally bring them to their emancipation from diapers. Featuring a crew of funny mice holding up signs with the text, children will be amused and inspired by this hilarious picture book.