This book explains the art, craft and science of helping children become independent using the loo. It takes a kind and practical approach which recognises that children are different and need individual techniques to support them through the emotional peaks and troughs that come with the potty training territory!

Dr June O'Sullivan OBE, CEO of London Early Years Foundation (LEYF)

Tops Day Nurseries and Shoots Training are delighted to welcome this much-needed earlier potty training book. It makes so much more sense to us to start potty training right from every baby or toddlers' first days in nurseries, just like we do with reading, music and using the senses. We have piloted starting potty training earlier in our nurseries and found children succeeding many months earlier through enjoying this more gradual, fun process that is embedded in everyday practice from as soon as babies can sit comfortably and uses up-to-date research on how babies with different personalities develop skills such as potty training effectively and without any pressure, stickers or sweets. We love earlier potty training and are cascading this to all our nurseries. We very much endorse working with parents who use this book, using its up-to-date research and practical techniques, to empower their children to go nappy free before pre-school, never mind school! We believe parents, educators and children will be happier and healthier as a result of using this book.

Cheryl Hadland MA(Ed.), CEO of Hadland Care Group