About Booty Camp Potty Training

Registered Nurse, Wendy Sweeney, the founder and proprietor of Booty Camp®, is the genius behind the Booty Camp Potty Training Method® and Program. What started out as a half-day seminar designed to toilet train children, has grown over 7 years into a method of potty training that is easily implemented either in personal sessions with Sweeney, or in the privacy of ones home, anywhere in the world with the Booty Camp Potty Training Method® DVD Package.

With six children of her own Sweeney created Booty Camp® as an ideal way to teach her children self-reliance, responsibility, and consequences for their actions. We’d be remiss if we didn’t also mention the incentive of saving a substantial amount of money on diapers and Pull-Ups! Word of Sweeney’s successful methodology spread quickly and family, friends, and neighbors soon requested her assistance. From this, Booty Camp® was born. Wendy and her innovative Booty Camp® one-day Potty Training Classes have been featured in People Magazine, on “The Today Show”, at Parenting.com, and on TV networks including ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CBS.

The Booty Camp® Potty Training Method is potty instruction like no other. Booty Camp® gives your child the skills and confidence needed to master the potty on his or her own. Booty Camp® incorporates proven potty-training methods with effective behavioral techniques to provide a parent-child class that gets results. Best of all, noticeable results are typically seen in just one day! Once your child has learned the necessary tools for successful toileting in the seminar, he or she will have the ability to use the potty without assistance or a reminder. Other significant benefits of the Booty Camp® Potty Training Method include; personality improvements that frequently accompany the feeling of independence (willingness to attempt other tasks independently such as feeding or clothing), better response to parental instruction, and in an increased sense of pride, pleasure, and self-esteem.

• Results are achieved in at little as one day. Over 650 children have been trained with success using the Booty Camp® Potty Training Method over the last six years.

• Even after failure and/or regression Booty Camp® Potty Training has a high success rate.

• Booty Camp® Potty Training provides a positive learning experience for both parents and children.

• Third party intervention, with parent’s involvement, works better than parental coaching alone.

• Booty Camp® Potty Training is taught in a comfortable, home environment.

• Booty Camp® Potty Training is taught in calm, nurturing setting.

• Booty Camp® Potty Training teaches the latest scientific method for potty training on the market today.

• When attending a Booty Camp® Potty Training class, participants and their parents are surrounded by others going through the same process.

• The Booty Camp® Potty Training class will pay for itself through eliminating diaper costs.

• After successful Booty Camp® Potty Training the child has high self-esteem.

Wendy Sweeney RN, founder of Booty Camp® will set an individual, reasonable expectation for each child, which encourages him or her to assume responsibility for their bodies and actions. Sweeney provides the children and parents with the necessary information they need in order to achieve their toilet training goals, while assisting them throughout the process. With this in mind, the parent or primary caregiver must be present throughout the class and follow the guidelines given. The class helps the child and their parents to conquer the toilet training process together with Sweeney’s direction.

The Booty Camp® Potty Training Method WORKS!

In order to achieve the expected results, the guidelines must be followed. Sweeney will not call to see if parents are following guidelines given in class and listed in the parental agreement. At the class, parents will receive Sweeney’s home and cellular phone numbers and are strongly encouraged to report any problems or progress on a daily basis. This allows us at Booty Camp® to tweak the program specifically to work for your child to ensure they are completely trained by the third day. Some children will only need fifteen minutes and other children [i.e., those with special needs] may take up to two weeks, depending on their abilities.

After attending the class, not only will your child be toilet trained, you will also note significant behavioral, personality, and self-esteem improvements. Booty Camp® increases your child’s maturity skills and provides parents a major boost of confidence. With the children and parents learning and working together, mutual goals are achieved!

“Sometimes we need to fail before we succeed. Accidents are a good thing. This is how we learn. I will teach you how to teach your child to work through their tantrums and be successful with any new challenges they face, whether it be potty training or tying their own shoes."

--Wendy Sweeney, RN

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Does the Booty Camp® Potty Training Method really work?
A. Yes. Our success rate is 96 to 98% when we have parental compliance in accordance with our parental agreement guidelines.

Q. How do I know if my child is ready for the Booty Camp® Potty Training Method?
A. Booty Camp® accepts children who are 2 ½ years of age and older. The child must be able to stay dry in a diaper for the length of an entire hour, and the child must also be able to carry out 2 to 3 simple commands at a time.

Q. Do you accept children with special needs to Booty Camp®?
A. Yes. The Booty Camp® potty training method can be used with special needs children and adolescents, including, but not limited to, those with cerebral palsy, autism, down syndrome, or chromosomal disorders. We have experienced great success with teaching special needs children, as the basic concepts are the same.

Q. What if my child has special needs and has already reached puberty?
A. Booty Camp® requires private, individualized classes for all children who have reached puberty.

Q. How many kids are in a Booty Camp® Potty Training class?
A. Booty Camp® accepts up to five children per class. Of the five children, there may be two with special needs.

Q. How are parents involved in Booty Camp® Potty Training?
A. Parents can be involved in Booty Camp® training by fully complying with the parental agreement rules and regulations. If there is no compliance from the parents, the training will be ineffective. Parents can also help by being completely involved both before, during, and after the Booty Camp® training.

Q. How does the Booty Camp® Potty Training method work?
A. During Booty Camp®, children participate in intense practices to help them understand their bodies. Children are rewarded for dry pants and for going potty. This means that only the children are responsible for their success, not their parents.

Q. Can we receive post-training advice?
A. Yes. You may receive coaching and advice for up to 30 days following the Booty Camp® Potty Training class, at no extra charge.

Q. What happens if the Booty Camp® Potty Training Method doesn't work?
A. Booty Camp® has a high success rate when the parental agreement rules and regulations are followed. If the rules are not followed, there will be no compensation. However, if the rules have been followed and the training was ineffective, you may re-enroll your child, at the discretion of the instructor, for no cost.

Wendy Sweeney, RN Biography

Wendy Sweeney is a graduate of the Triton College School of Nursing in River Grove, Illinois and has specialties in both pediatric and neonatal intensive care. During her thirteen years as a registered Nurse, Wendy worked for several Chicago area hospitals including Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Norwegian American Hospital, and the prestigious Loyola University Hospital. In 2002, after several years in a private practice, she developed the Booty Camp® Potty Training Method and Classes.

Sweeney is a qualified instructor in child disciplinary classes, sibling classes, newborn care, and breastfeeding. She is also CPR certified through the American Heart Association. She resides in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois with her husband, six children.