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:
One-on-one support by phone or video — whatever works for you. Whether you're figuring out where to start, stuck somewhere in the middle, or trying to cross the finish line, this is your time with someone who can tell you exactly what to do next.
After booking, we'll ask a few basics about your family's routines and preferences. From there, we match you with the right consultant for your situation. You can complete the whole process — booking, intake questionnaire, scheduling — in just a few minutes. Or take your time. We'll be ready when you are.
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Some parents want to figure this out themselves, with a little guidance from the sidelines. This service is not for them.This is for the parent who wants someone in the room. Someone who can watch what's happening, read your child, and say — quietly, in real time — "try this next."Your consultant comes to you. Stays for the day. Watches what's actually happening in your home and adjusts as it unfolds — not after the fact, but in the moment, with your family. It can be day one of potty training, somewhere in the middle of a hard stretch, or the final push to finish what you've already started.This premier service is not for everyone. But if it's for you — you already know it.
Think of it as a course — one built around where your child actually is right now.
Diapers to Flush is The Potty School's signature 5-stage program, available month-to-month with no long-term commitment. You get 24/7 access to our video library for your stage, tutorials, and articles, organized into a clear path from the first diaper to the last. Work through it in order, or jump straight to the stage you're in.
What makes it more than a course is what comes with it: consultants in it with your, a searchable vault of questions and answers from thousands of families before you, and live Q&A sessions where you can submit your own questions directly to our consultants.
Month-to-month. Cancel when your child is trained — which, if we're doing our job, won't take as long as you think.
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Some parents want the full picture. Others know exactly where they're stuck and just need help with that one thing.We have both.
The Online Potty Training Video Course is our most-purchased course — comprehensive, self-paced, and the most complete place to start if you're not sure where to begin. For more specific situations, our mini-courses go deeper on the things parents ask us about most: Nights & Naps for sleep and nighttime dryness, and our nutrition course for understanding how food and digestion connect to the process.
All courses are self-paced, progress-tracked, and yours for 90 days from the date of purchase. No subscription required.
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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