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    Bathroom Routine Builder

    Predictable beats pushy. Enter your family's day and get a gentle schedule with two or three short, optional sits after meals — ready to print for the fridge or send to another caregiver.

    Meals, and who's usually with your child

    Daycare, preschool or school?

    Sits per day

    Our daily bathroom routine

    Updates as you type
    1. 7:00 AM
      Wake up
      Unhurried start. Offer a drink of water.
    2. 7:30 AM
      Breakfast · Parent
      Offer water with the meal.
    3. 7:50 AM
      Optional sit after breakfast · Parent
      About 5 minutes, feet on the footstool, no commentary.
    4. 12:00 PM
      Lunch · Parent
      Offer water with the meal.
    5. 5:30 PM
      Dinner · Parent
      Offer water with the meal.
    6. 5:50 PM
      Optional sit after dinner · Parent
      About 5 minutes, feet on the footstool, no commentary.
    7. 7:00 PM
      Wind-down
      Bath, pee, teeth, story. No poop sit at bedtime unless your child asks.
    8. 7:30 PM
      Bedtime
      Lights out. Your child can call you if their body needs the bathroom.

    How every sit works

    • Sits are optional and short — about 5 minutes. Your child can get up any time.
    • Feet on a footstool, knees a little higher than hips, leaning slightly forward.
    • No commentary on results: no asking "did you go?", no praise or disappointment about what happens.
    • Keep it boring and kind: a book, a song, or quiet company. No screens as a deal for sitting.
    • If your child says no, say "okay" and try at the next planned sit.

    Made with the free Poop Peace Routine Builder (pooppeace.com/tools/routine-builder). Educational content only. Not a substitute for medical advice from your child's pediatrician.

    Blank chart (PDF)

    Your routine is stored only in this browser. Nothing is sent to Poop Peace. The schedule comes from simple fixed rules — sits shortly after meals, when many children's bodies are most ready — not from any assessment of your child.

    How to use your routine

    The routine works because it's boring and predictable — not because anything has to happen during a sit.

    1. Set up the bathroom once

      A footstool that lets knees rise above hips, a small seat insert if needed, and a basket of books. Then leave it set up.

    2. Offer the sits, then let go

      "It's sitting time — want a book?" If your child says no, say "okay" and offer again at the next planned sit.

    3. Keep everyone on the same plan

      Print it, or send the text version to whoever covers meals. The Caregiver Handoff sheet picks this routine up automatically.

    When to contact your child's pediatrician

    Contact your child's pediatrician promptly if you notice any of these.

    • No bowel movement for 5 or more days
    • Blood in the stool or on the toilet paper
    • Vomiting, fever, or a swollen or very painful belly
    • Stool leaking or soiling in a child who was previously trained
    • Weight loss, poor appetite, or a child who seems unwell
    • Pain or distress that is getting worse rather than better
    • Anything that worries you — you know your child best

    Poop Peace is educational. It does not diagnose or treat. If you are worried about your child, contact their pediatrician or local emergency services.

    Things went backwards?
    Read the potty-training regression guide — a calm routine is usually the first step.
    Someone else covers meals?
    Turn this routine into a one-page handoff for daycare, grandparents or a sitter.

    The Calm Poop Plan

    Want the whole step-by-step plan around this routine?

    The Calm Poop Plan builds on this routine with scripts, a tracker and a pediatrician guide — one calm approach instead of piecing it together.

    See the The Calm Poop Plan

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