Too posh to potty train!
PROFESSIONAL ‘TOILET WHISPERER’ AMANDA JENNER HAS MADE A CAREER OUT OF WIPING RICH KIDS’ BOTTOMS
Driving towards the 47-room mansion nestled in the heart of the English countryside, Amanda Jenner knows she has a very important job ahead of her.
Home to a wealthy family, including five children, Amanda has not been hired to cook, clean or even to nanny.
She is there to potty train the youngest little darling, a job outsourced by the child’s mother.
The 43-year-old toilet training expert has been wiping the bottoms of the UK’S superrich kids for the past two years, and by charging over $2000 a time, she’s made a healthy living from her ‘Potty Training Academy’.
‘Someone asked me to help potty train their child years ago and it took me two days,’ Amanda – who is also the inventor of a leak-proof potty called My Carry Potty – tells New Idea.
‘Word got around and now I’m known as the toilet whisperer, the potty lady, the toilet nanny. I’ve been called it all.’
With her mix of fun, consistency and a valuable toilet training book, Amanda spends two days with families and follows up with Skype calls for six to eight weeks afterwards.
‘I charge £80 [$146] for a 45-minute call or Skype,’ the mother-of-three says.
‘The average age [I train] is three and a half, but it’s getting older.
‘If the kids are learning things like violin at two or three, there’s so much going on that toilet training just gets pushed back,’ she says, explaining that she’s recently helped several nine-year-olds perfect their toilet technique.
‘Often the child wants the parent to do it with them,’ she goes on. ‘But one lady, who professed to being the world’s greatest super-mum, wouldn’t even touch a bottom or change a nappy.’
With a two-year waiting list for Amanda’s in-home toilet treatment, she receives consult requests by email from all over the world.
‘A family in Spain wanted me to help their twins, and I’ve had Dubai, Australia, remote islands – loads of places. I get it. Toilet training is messy, stressful and it can turn a household upside down,’ she says.
The stage is so stressful to get through that more average families are even scraping the cash together to employ Amanda’s expert services.
‘There was an increase of kids starting school wearing pull-ups under their uniforms this year,’ Amanda says. ‘It’s a huge problem.’
And it’s one that this potty whisperer is determined to help solve.