Child Proof

You Don’t Need to Put Your Kid in Potty-Training Boot Camp

There are advantages to letting toddlers take their time with the process

Elizabeth Preston
Published in
5 min readMay 30, 2019

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AAmazon is overflowing with books that promise you can potty train a child in three days or less. That might sound comforting in theory, but in practice it can drive parents — and kids — to…

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Elizabeth Preston
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Elizabeth Preston is a freelance science journalist and humor writer in the Boston area.