Toilet learning where your child does the leading
A story-led play-based kit built from published evidence, so the plan lives in a structured framework in the storybook, poster, progress charts and sensory tools. Not inside a novel. No intensive pressure phase. Works within your normal family life, work and childcare.
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Go Time, Potty Time - Toilet Training System
Seven pieces, each doing one job.
- Storybook. Your child follows the characters through the whole process and takes on small quests along the way.
- Routine poster. Pictures, in order, on the wall at your child’s height.
- Progress charts (3). The sticker goes on for the sit, not only for the result.
- Tinkle Fizzles. Drop one in and the water fizzes, foams and changes colour.
- Parent guide. Readiness signs, the step by step, and what to do when it stalls.
- Toilet training wipes. Within reach, so the practical part stays calm.
- Big kid certificate. Their name on it.
Add any of the following:
- Buy 2 Tinkle Fizzles: save 10%
- Buy 3 Tinkle Fizzles: save 25%
- Buy 3 x 3 pack Toilet Training Wipes: save 30%
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If any of this sounds like your house
- You have no idea where to start.
- They will wee in the toilet and absolutely not poo in it.
- They ask for a nappy, go and hide, and come back when it is done.
- Kindy starts soon and you can feel the deadline.
- There is a chart on the fridge that stopped working in week two.
- Everyone has an opinion and a method, and none of them agree.
- You have started reading about this at 10pm.
What you need is a plan built on evidence. One that gives your child something too, instead of handing you another list of instructions.
You have probably already tried three of these
Clear the calendar and go hard
It works for families who can clear a week and have a child who copes with intensity. Most people have neither. And when it stalls, the instruction is to stop and try again later, as though the same method will land differently next time.
Wait until they are ready
Reasonable advice, until you ask which signs, and how many. There is no agreed answer, which means you can wait a long time for a signal that never clearly arrives. Children’s bodies have not changed: the physical readiness for this begins developing from around 18 months. Waiting feels like the safe choice. The research does not back that up. Studies that followed children into later childhood link starting later with more bladder trouble. Starting later has not been shown to shorten the process, or to make it easier.
Put a sticker chart on the fridge
Charts are supported by clinical guidance. What goes wrong is what most charts reward. If your child sits five times and the sticker only goes on when something actually happens, the other four sits have just told them they were not good enough. The reward needs to go on the part they can control. That is the sitting, not the result.
None of these tell you what to do tomorrow morning.
Four things change, and then it starts moving
1. The story goes first
Your child watches a character do it before anyone asks them to. A 3 year old will do for a bear what they will not do for a parent. That is not a trick, it is how they learn at this age.
2. The poster takes over from your voice
The steps go up on the wall in pictures, at your child’s height. Words disappear the moment you say them. A picture stays put, and your child can follow it without being told. Your partner and the grandparents can follow it too, so everyone does it the same way.
3. The Tinkle Fizzle makes the bathroom worth walking into
Drop one in and the water fizzes and changes colour. Suddenly there is a reason to go in there, instead of a reason to stay out.
4. The chart rewards the trying
Stickers go on for sitting, not only for succeeding. Sitting is the part a toddler can control, and sitting is where the learning begins.
You stop being the one who has to remember it. The plan is on the wall, in the book, and in their hands. That is the whole mechanism. Everything in the box exists to help your child lead the toileting process.
Seven pieces, each doing one job
Storybook
Your child follows the characters through the whole process and takes on small quests along the way. Play does the work, not your instructions. The learning is theirs.
Routine poster
Pictures, in order, on the wall. Your child sees what comes next instead of being told what comes next.
Progress charts (3)
Effort based and outcome, so the sticker goes on for the sit, not only for the result. Three charts means the system keeps going past the first fortnight, which is about when most charts come off the fridge.
Tinkle Fizzles
Drop one in and the water fizzes, foams and changes colour. It is the fun, and fun is what gets a nervous toddler through the bathroom door.
Parent guide
Readiness signs, the step by step, and what to do when it stalls. Written so you can find the answer at 7pm without reading the whole thing again.
Toilet training wipes
Because the practical part still has to happen, and having them within reach keeps the moment calm.
Big kid certificate
Their name on it. The ending matters, because a milestone a child gets to mark is one they remember choosing.
On its own, any one of these is just a nice thing. It is the seven together that make it work.
Three ways families toilet train, compared honestly
We compared four things. What each approach gives your child, what it asks of your family, which ages it fits, and how closely it follows published clinical guidance.
Scroll the table sideways to compare all three approaches.
Your child follows the story, a routine poster on the wall, and small quests, inside your normal week. The kit does the structure so you do not have to.
Clear the calendar, remove the nappies, and train intensively over a long weekend.
From early infancy the caregiver reads the baby’s cues and holds them over a potty with a cue sound.
Their own things. A storybook, a visual poster, charts that are theirs to fill, a certificate with their name on it. A participant, not the subject of a technique.
A book or course, written for you. There is nothing in it made for your child to hold, look at or take part in.
Nothing child facing, and that is inherent to the age. A baby cannot follow a story or use a chart.
Your child does, with you alongside. The poster moves the reminder from your voice into their own line of sight, and the supports are built to fade as they learn.
You do. You read the method, interpret it, and deliver it to them.
The caregiver, entirely. The method depends on an adult reading and acting on the infant’s cues.
Minutes a day. A story at bedtime, short sits after meals, a sticker for every try, sensory fun fizzles. Runs alongside work, childcare and real life.
Several cleared days at home, ideally a week, with a naked toddler and constant one on one watching.
Round the clock attention to elimination cues, from a stage when babies wee around 20 times a day. Months of commitment.
Most families. A child between 18 months and 4, childcare in the mix, no week to clear, and a parent who wants an evidence-based approach with supports for their child.
A family who can clear a week, thrives on intensity, and has a child inside the window who copes well with pressure.
A family starting in the baby year with a caregiver home and committed to months of close attention.
Go Time–Potty Time was built for toddlers in daycare, before it was built for your child
Almost every other toilet training method you can buy started the same way. One parent, one child, one thing that worked, written up afterwards. That can work. It just cannot tell you whether it will work for your child.
Go Time–Potty Time came from early learning centres, where an educator cannot pick an easy child. So it had to hold up for the ones who dig their heels in. Several adults had to run it the same way, so none of it lives in one person’s head. And it could not lean on what a parent leans on, because an educator has none of it. No “do it for mummy”. No treat later.
So it was built piece by piece, from child development practice, paediatric continence guidance and early childhood pedagogy. It is designed to sit alongside the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standard.
What is in this box is that same system, designed to meet your child where they are.
Dr Kate Renshaw, Child Development Specialist
“For parents, stress around timelines, conflicting advice and regression anxiety can be overwhelming. Through the magic of imaginative play, My Binkie Bear helps children reframe this developmental challenge as an exciting journey of discovery. This supportive approach nurtures resilience and self-efficacy, empowering children to tackle future milestones with greater ease.”
Three families who were where you are now
Kate, mum of Ollie (3.5 yr)
“Three days. He’d shown zero interest for over a year and I fully expected this to be another thing I bought and then felt guilty about not using. The Storybook with the quests and Tinkle Fizzles did most of the heavy lifting to be honest.”
Steph, mum of Ella (2 yr)
“The moment I knew we needed help was in the shopping centre parents room. Ella had held on since breakfast, she was doing that little dance and crying at the same time, and I was crouched on the floor of a public toilet basically begging a two year old. I felt awful. I also felt angry at her, which made me feel worse. Anyway. What actually worked was that we stopped making it ‘an event’. The steps in the book were small enough that she had nothing to push back against. She still shows people her book and charts.”
Hannah, mum of Ruben (3 yr)
“Ruben would hold on to his poo for four or five days. He’d ask for a nappy, go and stand behind the couch in the lounge room, and I’d be in the kitchen listening to him feeling completely useless. The worst one was the night before my mum flew over to visit. Five days of holding, Ruben screaming, me crying in the hallway, ringing the after hours nurse at 11pm. Not my finest work, and then Mum arrives and keeps saying we all get there in the end, which is true, but is not what you want at 11pm. I found this while looking for literally anything else. Two things helped. Knowing it is actually common and that I had not caused it by doing something wrong, and having steps to follow instead of trying whatever I’d read that morning. He did his first poo on the toilet nine days in and then made me clap. He is now VERY pleased with himself and tells the lady at the checkout, haha. Sorry, long. But if you’re the one googling this at midnight, it isn’t just you.”
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Why this exists
I am Monica Barker. Before My Binkie Bear I spent twenty five years in medical science and health research. Sixteen of those were at a children’s hospital. Nine were spent teaching healthcare professionals and working with health departments.
My work was reading the research, working out what it actually says, and translating it into something people can use.
Go Time–Potty Time is that work applied to toilet training. Every part of it comes from paediatric continence guidance, child development research and early childhood pedagogy, and every part of it can be traced back to why it is there.
Monica, founder
What families usually add
Bye-Bye Pacifier Weaning System
For the other big milestone, usually the one right before this.
The kit is complete on its own. These are for families who want spares or are facing both milestones at once.
Before you buy
Will this work for my child? Mine is really stubborn.
This is the question almost nobody asks out loud, so here is the honest answer. Many children are stubborn with toilet training. That is usually why this gets bought. The method does not try to out-stubborn a toddler, because nobody wins that. What most of them are digging in about is being told what to do, repeatedly, many times a day. When the telling becomes learning through story and visual cues, that determination has somewhere better to go. They choose their own quests. They are doing it, rather than having it done to them.
My child is nearly 4. Have we left it too late?
No, and there is no upper cutoff here. Plenty of families start at 3.
What is different at this age is that the nappy has become a habit, and there is usually some resistance built up around being asked. So the first thing worth doing is taking the pressure off completely. By now the digging in is usually about the asking and the habit rather than about the toilet itself.
My child is 18 months. Is that too young?
18 months is the earliest we would suggest, and only alongside readiness signs, which are listed in the parent guide. The kit is designed to be started slowly. Reading the story for a few weeks before anything else happens is a completely legitimate way to begin.
We have tried before and it went badly. Is this different?
It is different in one specific way: nothing in it is delivered at your child. They get their own book, their own poster and their own charts, and the sticker goes on for trying as well as for succeeding. The sensory Tinkle Fizzles add a fun and memorable experience they want to do again.
Could I just make this myself?
You can buy or make most of those parts. What is harder to copy is the reasoning underneath them. Every piece comes from clinical guidance, child development research and early childhood pedagogy, and sits where it sits for a reason. Without that, you are guessing at the order, and the order is what makes it work.
What if my child will not sit on the toilet at all?
Then you do not start at the toilet. The steps are built to be worked at whatever distance your child can manage, including days where nothing happens except the story and the poster. Nothing pauses and nothing has to be restarted.
My child will wee in the toilet but not poo. Does this cover that?
Yes, and it is a common reason families come to us. Poo refusal is a different problem from toilet training, and our resources handle it separately. That includes when it is worth seeing your Family Doctor.
My child is autistic or ADHD. Will it suit them?
Many families of neurodivergent children use it. The parts that tend to help are the visual poster, the predictable order, the sensory fizzles, and the fact that nothing is time limited.
It is not a therapy program and it is not a substitute for advice from your child’s OT or paediatrician, who know your child. If you are already working with someone, take the poster and storybook along and work with them.
Do I need to take a week off work?
No. It is built for minutes a day inside a normal week, which is the main practical reason families choose it over the intensive methods. Toilet learning usually takes weeks, not days. A method built around one cleared week sets most families up to feel they have failed by the second.
Will it work if my child is in childcare?
That is what it was built for. The home process is the same one that runs in early learning centres through our Early Learning Program. If your centre is running it, home and childcare become one system, not two.
If your centre is not running it, nothing changes at home. The kit is complete on its own and works in minutes a day around whatever your week looks like. Some families also send the storybook along so their child can keep reading it there.
Do rewards teach my child to expect a bribe?
A bribe is offered in advance to get something to happen. The stickers here are given afterwards to mark an attempt, which is a different thing.
Progress charts for toilet learning are supported by clinical guidance. The sticker goes on for the quests and for trying to sit, not just for the result, and the whole thing is designed to fade as the routine becomes habit.
Are the Tinkle Fizzles safe? Do I have to keep buying them?
They are made from gentle, child safe ingredients similar to those in bath salts.
You do not have to keep buying them for the system to work. That said, plenty of families add an extra pack or two while the routine is new. In the early weeks, the fizzles are often what gets a hesitant child through the bathroom door.
They are for external use only and should never be swallowed. Wash hands after use and store them out of reach between potty times.
How long does it take?
We will not give you a number, because anyone who does is guessing about your child. Families vary enormously and a promise of three days is the main reason so many parents feel they have failed. What we can tell you is what to expect at each stage and what to do when it stalls, which is what the guide is for.
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The nappies stop at some point either way
The only question is whether the next few months are a standoff or a plan. If a plan sounds better, everything you need is in one box and it is on your doorstep this week.
PS. Or keep doing what you are doing and read about this again at 10pm next Tuesday. Or spend about the same as two to three weeks of nappies, and have a plan your child can actually take part in.