Free-Range Kids

This book was recommended by Rae Pica, someone I usually agree with wholeheartedly, so I really want to read it, even if just for kicks.

Here is an excerpt from a chapter on avoiding experts. Hilarious stuff!

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The Potty Training Answer Book asks many of the questions you may or may not have been wondering about, including, "What books and videos should I choose for my child's potty library?"

Her what?

You know -- a how-to library filled with picture books like I Want my Potty, It's Potty Time, and even, I kid you not, What to Expect When You Use the Potty. (Thankfully, not for pregnant women.) The Potty Training Answer Book lists a full twenty books you might want to get your child about the issue.

And six videos.

Is your child studying for an advanced degree in Potty Studies? Has she been invited to present the "Scatalogical Preschooler" lecture at Oxford? I got through a college course on twentieth-century Russian history with less reading. But the Answer Book then suggests some "favorite potty training resources." Because twenty books and six videos are just not enough.