I've created a method called developmental toilet training.

I noticed a lot of kids still in diapers at three years old who had mastered every other motor skill

that you'd expect a three-year-old to have mastered, but they were struggling with toilet

training. All the work that I do with kids, we're really focused on what's developmentally

appropriate.

And none of these methods that are available are doing that.

Nothing is leading up to full toilet training and communicating the need to use the toilet

and self-recognition of when you need to use the toilet. None of them are.

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My name is Danielle Dore, I'm a board-certified behavior analyst. I have a master's degree in education and a bachelor's in psychology.

I've created a method called developmental toilet training that is designed to teach children how to use the toilet in a developmentally appropriate way that honors children and

parents and our busy lives and the way that children actually learn. I came to an interest

in toilet training well before I was a behavior analyst, well before I was a parent. So I have three

kids. They are now five,

eight, and eleven. And before I had kids, I just, while I worked with kids, I felt like this

was an area that was, it just didn't get enough attention. It seemed like the options that were

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