My oldest is a boy who has Asperger’s – no big deal as a young adult but a WAY big deal as a child. Potty training him was nightmarish and a long, drawn-out process. It was not my best moment as a parent. What finally convinced the four-year-old to poop in the potty was his younger sister. She mastered the potty in ONE day. Her brother was good to go, without any encouragement or sibling comparisons from me, within a week.

I give full credit to the technique I studied (like, memorized – I was that scarred by her brother) in a book. It was called “Potty Training in One Day” (or something similar). I recall that it had to be a solo affair of just you and the child in the home with lots of water and rewards (M&M’s!) and sitting on the potty every 20 or 30 minutes (using a timer).

Good for you for checking that box early.