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[quote=Anonymous]I've trained three children from about two and a half through two and three quarters via Azrin's "Toilet Training in Less Than a Day". This an older method (I was, myself, trained via it during the 1970s), but it is extremely effective, and as it was originally designed for the intellectually disabled, everything is laid out in a very scripted and organized fashion.

The short version is that you need to kick out everyone in the house so you and your kid can focus. Then start with a model: you work together with your child to train a doll to go to the potty. The child then learns to go to the potty, following the same method. Throughout you stuff the kid silly with soda pop and salty snacks to encourage peeing. Success brings praise ("I'm so proud that you are using the potty! Grandma will be amazed that you are using the potty! Spiderman is thrilled that you are peed in the potty!") and more popsicles. Failure brings the reverse ("I'm disappointed that you didn't pee in the potty. The fire truck driver will be sad that your underwear is wet") and a bunch of immediate practicing of all the steps of toileting.

It's super intensive -- the seven to eight hours of being over the top enthusiastic about the toilet is easily the hardest job I've ever had to do, but there were only a few accidents the next day, and hardly any the next week. 
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