Behind The Story
The toddler years are prime potty training age. Winter 2022, I potty trained twins. The beautiful thing about twins is you have a direct comparison to another child who is the same age. I started to notice that one had fear associated with pooping and the other did not. This wasn’t specific to toilet training, but true for diaper use as well. She would try to hold her poop in for days until she felt discomfort and pain. I reached out to my mom friends for advice. Out of 4 moms, 3 of them had experienced the same pattern with at least one of their children for a least a short period. “What is this exactly?” “How common is it?” And “How can I help my daughter?”
Potty Training Common Issue
My daughter was experiencing stool withholding. Stool withholding is the act of withholding the passing of stool. Many parents can confuse stool withholding with constipation. Constipation is the inability to pass hard, dry stool, but if your child is appearing constipated but then eventually passes normal or even loose stool, it is actually behavioral. Research indicates that nearly all children go through at least a short period of stool withholding in their infant and toddler years, but some kiddos literally get stuck in this stage.
There are many reasons kids practice stool withholding. Some kids feel uncomfortable with something solid coming out of their body. Some kids have had constipation and now associate pooping with pain. This becomes a negative cycle because the more one resists their natural pooping cycle, the more it reinforces pain. There are several more reasons, but in general, I realized there was literally no child centered content to address this concept with kids.
How This Can Help
This book is unique in that it helps parents potty train both traditional toddler and delayed potty trainees due to underlying conditions like autism, sensory issues, delays or medical concern. Because the story is also so silly, non-potty training siblings will also enjoy the read. My 6 year old thinks the story is hilarious!
The book teaches the basics of what poop actually is and its role within the digestive system. Zee talks about the sensations that can occur to indicate when one is ready to poop, and gives advice on how to have a successful toilet poop. Zee acknowledges the fear or discomfort that a child may feel and instead invites them to set their poop free to a magical land. The book also prepares kids that the urge to poop can happen literally anywhere, so we have to pay attention to the sensations throughout the day. Zee even teaches the readers not to touch or play with poop.
Meeting Zee
Zee is a beautiful combination of two little girls whose names start with the letter Z, my daughter and a playmate. Our playmate is a 6 year old who struggles to potty train due to her autism. This is why the main character Zee, appears slightly older, so all kids can relate to either being just like her or learning from her. Also, as a mother of brown children, it is really important to me that my children’s books represent kids that look like them. While the story includes many different children, the main character helps build our readers’ inclusion libraries.
Using The Book
The book is written to be reread many times and often in pieces. You will not likely be able to sit with a two year old and read the entire book first round. Younger trainees may select sentences, talk about pictures, and offer opportunities to build on the content each reading session. Its encouraged to take the book and read it together on the potty each use. The book adds enough focused content to keep the potty session business oriented, but fun enough to calm nervous poopers. The association of the two will certainly aiding your potty training journey.
The toddler years are prime potty training age. Winter 2022, I potty trained twins. The beautiful thing about twins is you have a direct comparison to another child who is the same age. I started to notice that one had fear associated with pooping and the other did not. This wasn’t specific to toilet training, but true for diaper use as well. She would try to hold her poop in for days until she felt discomfort and pain. I reached out to my mom friends for advice. Out of 4 moms, 3 of them had experienced the same pattern with at least one of their children for a least a short period. “What is this exactly?” “How common is it?” And “How can I help my daughter?”
Potty Training Common Issue
My daughter was experiencing stool withholding. Stool withholding is the act of withholding the passing of stool. Many parents can confuse stool withholding with constipation. Constipation is the inability to pass hard, dry stool, but if your child is appearing constipated but then eventually passes normal or even loose stool, it is actually behavioral. Research indicates that nearly all children go through at least a short period of stool withholding in their infant and toddler years, but some kiddos literally get stuck in this stage.
There are many reasons kids practice stool withholding. Some kids feel uncomfortable with something solid coming out of their body. Some kids have had constipation and now associate pooping with pain. This becomes a negative cycle because the more one resists their natural pooping cycle, the more it reinforces pain. There are several more reasons, but in general, I realized there was literally no child centered content to address this concept with kids.
How This Can Help
This book is unique in that it helps parents potty train both traditional toddler and delayed potty trainees due to underlying conditions like autism, sensory issues, delays or medical concern. Because the story is also so silly, non-potty training siblings will also enjoy the read. My 6 year old thinks the story is hilarious!
The book teaches the basics of what poop actually is and its role within the digestive system. Zee talks about the sensations that can occur to indicate when one is ready to poop, and gives advice on how to have a successful toilet poop. Zee acknowledges the fear or discomfort that a child may feel and instead invites them to set their poop free to a magical land. The book also prepares kids that the urge to poop can happen literally anywhere, so we have to pay attention to the sensations throughout the day. Zee even teaches the readers not to touch or play with poop.
Meeting Zee
Zee is a beautiful combination of two little girls whose names start with the letter Z, my daughter and a playmate. Our playmate is a 6 year old who struggles to potty train due to her autism. This is why the main character Zee, appears slightly older, so all kids can relate to either being just like her or learning from her. Also, as a mother of brown children, it is really important to me that my children’s books represent kids that look like them. While the story includes many different children, the main character helps build our readers’ inclusion libraries.
Using The Book
The book is written to be reread many times and often in pieces. You will not likely be able to sit with a two year old and read the entire book first round. Younger trainees may select sentences, talk about pictures, and offer opportunities to build on the content each reading session. Its encouraged to take the book and read it together on the potty each use. The book adds enough focused content to keep the potty session business oriented, but fun enough to calm nervous poopers. The association of the two will certainly aiding your potty training journey.
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