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Never heard of it? Though it seems like a best kept secret, Elimination Communication has actually been practiced worldwide for generations as a method to potty a baby or toddler. It helps decrease, or completely get rid of, the need for diapering. It can be practiced full-time or part-time, and can easily be adjusted for social and culture norms. Whether you’re just curious, or all in, our elimination communication consultants can guide you along this “crazy” EC journey. The benefits of elimination communication are:
Phone or Video Chat. One-on-one pottying support to talk through planning, implementing, problem solving or finishing up. After booking, we ask you to provide basics about your family’s routines and preferences. You are then matched up with a highly trained, and caring, consultant, based on the answers of your in-take questionnaire. You can book, do your in-take questionnaire and schedule all within a few minutes, if you’d like. Or, take your time after booking and schedule when you are ready. Great as a personal investment, or a gift.
Our concierge service for clients who like to have home access to an experienced professional. These clients can rest assured that what they are doing will be helpful to the process, and encouraging to their family dynamics, both present and future. This premier service is not for everyone. It is for the parent who is looking for that whisper in their ear of what to do each step of the way in order to have the most successes in the potty in the least stressful, and shortest amount of time. It can be for day #1 of pottying, in the middle, or trying to finish up the process.
The online Diapers to Flush Membership is the best of both worlds! Gain 24/7 access to The Potty School’s only endorsed potty learning path, which includes access to videos, tutorials and articles. You will have full access to our community of families from around the world who are on this adventure with you. Our searchable database gives you instant access to specific questions from our vault. Move along on your path with others who are in similar places on the journey with you. You will have people to cry & laugh with. You will not be alone. Not only will you make connections with peers, but you will also have access to submit questions for our Q&A sessions and learn from the experts with topical expert sessions. If you’re unsure which service to invest in, we suggest you start here.
24/7 access to any of our courses ranging from our most-purchased “Online Potty Training Video Course” to more specific topical themes. You can choose your own adventure based on your family’s preferences and parenting philosophies, or you can choose from set mini-courses such as Nights & Naps, or how nutrition can help with Potty Training. Your progress will be marked as you go along. You will have 90-day access to any course purchased.
Any and all parents teaching their children to use the potty. Our team of background checked and cleared professionals truly desire to see progress in your pottying journey. The Potty School® works exceptionally well with all of the following:
This is a modern question that wouldn’t have been asked two generations ago. There was no other option previously. Now that we have access to washers/dryers and disposable diapers the norm seems to have shifted to Potty Training in many countries, to the benefit of diaper makers and the detriment of the environment. But, even today, the benefits of Elimination Communication are great.
EC doesn’t have to be a full-time commitment. It can be done at home only, or during weekdays only, during awake hours only, or for those under age 12-months for small bits of time during a day. You can go at your own pace. You can start and stop if need be.
If you currently think of Potty Training as compressed Elimination Communication, then think of Elimination Communication as the more natural, life-paced approach to noticing the signs and signals of your child’s biological needs to which you can be attentive for the sake of bonding, attentiveness and hygiene. Both can work, but EC typically makes the pottying process an easier integration into the rhythm of one’s day, routine, lifestyle and family. Most children who practice EC are out of diapers at an earlier age, with fewer accidents longer term.
You can practice EC full-time, part-time, daytime only, sneakily on your own :), with friends and family, in a city, in suburbia, at home only, everywhere you go, at a beach, at a restaurant, on the side of the road. We can help cater the EC experience to your family, no matter how much or how little you’d like to try it out.
No. It is responding to a child’s biological need to urinate and have a bowel movement and a human’s preference to be clean. Potty Training is typically done from a standstill to full speed ahead. Elimination Communication is a more consistent, typically more gentle process that doesn’t involve extrinsic motivation (such as M&Ms and stickers). EC is a less abrupt method and creates a sense of normalcy around pottying from a very young age, which typically helps avoid issues of fear, refusal and manipulation over pottying that can often arise from beginning to potty train a child over the age of 2 ½ -3 years old.
No, this is a myth. You can use disposables, or no diapers at all (if you are fully committed and attentive).
Yes! We love consults with families who are new to the idea of Elimination Communication and aren’t sold on the idea yet. We have done both phone and Home Consultations with expectant families using their pregnant time to learn and prepare for the future.
There is no hard and fast rule, but in our years of experience only two 14 to 15-month-olds have potty trained successfully (meaning they can take themselves without accidents at least 75% of the time for both poo and pee). That said, if your child is 16 or 17 months and you have never started EC, it may make more sense for your family to just start with a Potty Training method and realize that there will be a maintenance period (though, don’t expect it to take 2-days to fully potty train a 15-month-old who has never practiced EC).
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