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This Woman Gets Paid To Help Kids Successfully Go To The Bathroom
Alexandra Klausner, New York Post They call her “the toilet whisperer”.
Mum-of-three Amanda Jenner, 42, gets paid $US2600 ($3430) to aid children along the toil- some milestone that is potty training so that their parents don’t have to.
In order to fully under- stand the child’s toilet training needs, British woman spends quality time observing the fami- ly.
“I go to the house for three days and live with the family, but if it takes more days then I will stay an extra couple of days,” Ms Jenner said.
Equipped with treats and heaps of patience, Ms Jenner has spent the past 18 years help- ing children as old as nine learn to go in the potty like a big kid. Most children she visits are over the age of three.
“In the 1950s the aver- age age at which chil- dren were potty trained was 15 months, as they always had family mem- bers with them,” Ms Jenner said.
“Now, as parents are having to go back to work and children’s care is left to a combination of parents, nurseries, and sometimes nannies,
average age is now three-and-a-half.”
the
quite average. The sad thing
is that almost all of them think they have failed, when it’s just a really dif- ficult thing to do.”
Ms Jenner knows from personal experience just how particular children can be when it comes to going for the toilet.
Her oldest child refused to use any other toilet but her own, so Ms Jenner was forced to lug her toddler’s training toi- let with them every- where they went.
One day when Ms Jenner was emptying her child’s waste into a street drain and a pass- er-by complained, she thought of a brilliant idea.
The mum was inspired to invent a tidy, portable toilet called the My
Carry Potty that par- ents can easily tote around and even send with their kids to school.
Ms Jenner explained that a child’s inability to go potty not only affects individual fami- lies but educators as well.
“The teachers cannot teach properly if they keep having to look after children who have wet themselves, and they don’t have the time to devote to teach-
ing children how to use the toilet,” she said.
“They just have to hand the parents a bag of wet clothes at the end of each day.”
Ms Jenner, who has a one year waiting list for her services, said she thought she’d become a flight attendant before finding her current pro- fession.
Ms Jenner’s career has soared over the past five years and she was honoured with a Special Recognition BFIIN Award and British Female Inventor of the Year award in 2014, named Business Woman of the Year 2013, and given a New Business Woman award and Entrepreneur of the year award in 2010, according to her web- site.
A lack of potty training doesn’t only affect frus- trated parents, it can be quite traumatic for the child.
“It has such a huge effect on the child’s life. They can’t go to sleep- overs, they can’t spent time with their friends, and they are worried about going to school,” Ms Jenner says.
While thousands of dol- lars may seem like a lot to pay for a potty train- ing service, Ms Jenner says she attracts all types of families who are desperate to help their children grow up to be healthy.
“Some of the clients are very wealthy, but some of them are actually
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