This very short pamphlet is one moms way of explaining how she potty trains in a matter of days by staying home, putting the kid in underwear. That's mostly what worked for us, only my daughter had no bottoms in the summer for a day or so until that really started to click. The only thing I didn't do that came from this book is the shaming aspect that comes from when she tells the kid that their character underwear is sad since it got wet/poopy. If they get poopy she throws them away (which some do anyway) but she then switches the kid to "sad white underwear".