Eps 84: Oh Crap Potty Trainer, Jamie Glowacki
Episode 84
Today’s guest is Jamie Glowacki, a social worker who worked with dual diagnosis moms, transitioned to owning a children’s store and then became a potty trainer. We are discussing potty training.
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“I don’t really have a method. You have to take off the diapers.”
See our blog on potty training here: Reframing Potty Training: How we can let go to speed up the process
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Takeaways from the show
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- The elimination communication movement
- Timing of potty training readiness
- “Pull-ups” and potty training – mixing old and new behaviors.
- Potty training and instant gratification – the role of patience in the process
- The myths of potty training
- Gender and potty training
- The role of social learning and praise
- Potty location and using the tool for the task
- The influence of Dr. Spock and the history of potty training
- Developmental milestones – should they be child-led?
- The myth of “readiness” – potty training as a skill that needs to be attended to rather than something that happens naturally in time without intervention
- The “magic window” of potty training – prior to individuation
- Potty training as a power struggle
- “Fear of release” – how to overcome it
- Managing expectations around developmental milestones and the danger of comparison
- How potty training challenges vary based on the age of the child
- Performance anxiety and potty training
- The best potty and ergonomic angle for potty training specifically for encouraging poop
- How to modify your potty or reposition your child to improve poop likelihood
- Rewards and consequences – their role in potty training
- Potty training power struggles as relationship challenges
- Potty training regressions – change in routines, the honeymoon period
- Using blocks of learning to solve regressions
- “Baby love” as a tool to help kids adjust to new siblings
- Location specific potty training challenges – how to unpack them
- Night time training strategies
- Developmental phases of bladder development