Today I’ve got a special guest on the show: Avital from The Parenting Junkie. She teaches parents how to love parenting and parent from love. We’re going to talk about the importance of independent play for babies and toddlers, and how helping your baby play independently makes elimination communication and early potty training so much easier.

Today we’re discussing the importance of independent play, and how you can start folding this invaluable, sanity-building practice into your parenting today...with babies as young as newborn!

This is a game-changer for new moms and dads, y’all, and completely in alignment with elimination communication and early potty training (because the goal there is independence as well!). Enjoy!

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Today I’m going to answer a question from one of our readers: can I start Elimination Communication at 2 years old?

Is Elimination Communication (EC) age-appropriate for older toddlers, or should we skip it and do something else at 2 years old, regarding potty training or otherwise?

Get full show notes and add your comments or questions here: https://godiaperfree.com/134

Get my free easy start guide for EC at https://godiaperfree.com/start

Start EC with your baby today with Andrea's popular book, Go Diaper Free: https://godiaperfree.com/thebook

Tell me if this has happened to you: Your baby has been using the potty fine and all of the sudden is resistant and won’t sit on the potty, perhaps peeing on the floor 5 minutes later or in the diaper soon after the pottytunity has ended. She fusses and you get nervous that you’re doing the wrong thing.

Does EC work? Is my mother-in-law right? Am I permanently damaging my baby? Why is she screaming and trying to run away?

So much second-guessing!

The thing is, this is pretty normal. It’s a sign. Today we’re going to discuss why your baby is really resisting the potty, and how to give your baby the thing he’s screaming so loudly for - privacy on the potty - but doesn’t know quite how to say it yet!

Get full show notes and add your comments or questions here: https://godiaperfree.com/133

Get my free easy start guide for EC at https://godiaperfree.com/start

Start EC with your baby today with Andrea's popular book, Go Diaper Free: https://godiaperfree.com/thebook 

If you're one of those who was caught between shopping trips and other parents got to the diapers and wipes aisle first, this is my heart-into-action for you: what you can do if you're running out of diapers.

We will discuss options to use fewer diapers for younger babies and also a couple options for toddlers who are newly walking. We also have some energy-saving tips for laundering cloth diapers on the cheap. So, if the store has run out of diapers, do these things!

This is a guest post from our Certified Coach Laura Durkee in Lima, Ohio...we’ll be answering comments over on the blog post after the show (see link below)!

Get full show notes and add your comments or questions here: https://godiaperfree.com/132

Get my free easy start guide for EC at https://godiaperfree.com/start

Start EC with your baby today with Andrea's popular book, Go Diaper Free: https://godiaperfree.com/thebook 

This is a little letter that I wrote to parents several months ago. I think it was around Earth Day, around when we do Go Diaper Free Week every year. And it started off as a bit of a rant, but it turned into this sort of productive thing: What can we do about the fact that we parents are one of the largest groups of people who are ruining the environment? Not that it's entirely our fault - because we were raised in a diapering culture, and this is all we know.

But when we know better, hopefully by the end of today's episode, we can make some changes. I'm going to give you some challenges at the end, so stick around for that.

Get full show notes and add your comments or questions here: https://godiaperfree.com/131

Get my free easy start guide for EC at https://godiaperfree.com/start

Start EC with your baby today with Andrea's popular book, Go Diaper Free: https://godiaperfree.com/thebook