Best Potty Training Books
Children’s “potty training” books are the foundation of a positive potty learning experience. The best children’s “potty training” books add to your child’s awareness of how his body works and to the excitement of making new potty choices. Reading potty books allows your child to think about potty experiences in a nonthreatening way, to sit quietly with his personal potty questions, and to imagine potty mastery without the possibility of failure.
Add favorite “potty” books to your child’s collection before you have any potty expectations. Choose books that reflect your child’s interest and engage your child’s unique personality. Watch your child’s eyes as you read different pages to see where your child’s emotional self connects to the story or to the illustrations. Bring books to life by weaving favorite potty themes into your daily conversations with your child. Allow your child to reread favorite books a hundred times or more. Repetition builds familiarity and confidence.
Everyone Poops
As you may know from my Best Potty Training Accessories list, this book tops my Best of the Best list. It delivers its message without any pressure on children to grow up. Saying goodbye to diapers is simply a “fact”, just like certain animals that clean up after themselves. This book has universal appeal to children who want to know more about how bodies work and who want to say the word “poop” as often as they can.
Everyone Poops
A Potty for Me
Karen Katz writes the best books for toddlers: respectfully designed for young readers with simple, honest, and inspiring messages. If your child is interested in potty training, this book happily guides your child through the ups and downs of the potty training experience – all with a happy ending.
A Potty for Me
Uh Oh! Gotta Go! Potty Tales from Toddlers
This little book accomplishes great things. From picking a potty to wearing underpants, this book captures the entire potty learning process and manages to touch upon every significant potty detail, like listening for “the splash” or trying different bathrooms. This is the perfect read-together book for parents and potty-learning kids.
Uh Oh! Gotta Go! Potty Tales from Toddlers
No Potty! Yes, Potty!
Potty training coincides with a universal stage of oppositional behavior in child development. A child can’t grow without the push-and-pull of becoming an independent person. This book defuses a child’s natural inclination to say “no” with pure silliness.
No Potty Yes Potty
You Can Go to the Potty
Potty training is a natural step in learning and growing. This book invites the child into potty learning that is natural and pressure-free. Potty training parents will also gain insight from Dr. Sears’ helpful commentary.
You Can Go to the Potty
Have You Seen My Potty
Published in 2007, this book is a fabulous addition to children’s “potty” literature. Perfect for the preschool potty-goer, especially for a child who sneaks off to non-bathroom places to potty. This book is a fun and funny favorite.
Have You Seen My Potty
I Have to Go!
You gotta love the potty procrastinator – we all know someone like Andrew. Written for kids but the perfect catharsis for frustrated parents.
I Have to Go
Once Upon a Potty
It’s no accident that “Once Upon a Potty” has been around a long time. The simple message is developmentally appropriate, from body parts to negative reasoning. I add this book to the Best of the Rest list because of the honest way it helps children understand body parts they can’t see, specifically the “hole” where the poop comes out.
Once Upon a Potty
What to Expect When You Use the Potty
This is the potty book for inquiring young minds and parents looking for answers to good questions. This book has the best answer to “How do I know when to go to the potty?”
What to Expect When You Use the Potty
Underwear!
This book isn’t actually a “potty training” book, but it is “the” book to celebrate the benefits of potty training instead of getting stuck on tedious skills. Underwear is a funny and wonderful thing!
Happy potty training!
Underwear
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Uh Oh! Gotta Go! Potty Tales from Toddlers - is a cute book to read to your kids, we're hoping this is a great first step to potty training!
What a great topic! This is just what I need - hmm, Everyone Poops!
