And this is the book I recommend for potty training: “Toilet Learning.” I liked it because it’s educational for parents and kids. The first half of the book is a guide for parents that basically discourages you from starting to potty train too early. The second half is a picture book for your child. It tells your child everything he needs to know about going to the potty in a very straightforward way.

The other unique advice the author gives is to let the only reward for going in the potty be staying nice and dry. There’s no candy, bribery, praise, etc. The feeling of being nice and dry should be the only prize.

 The book’s illustrations are just simple line drawings, no rhymes or anything like that—but it says it in a way children can understand. And till this day Evan still asks me to read him that book and gets so excited about it. Cracks me up. “You don’t like to be wet and sticky, you like to be nice and dryyyyy.”