It is an expansion of ideas that were originally presented in a small self-published volume called Trickle Treat in 1991.

Variations of infant potty training have been used in non-Western societies for centuries, and this information has been passed down both orally[3] and later in writing.

[4] A hindrance to the acceptance of the practice in modern Western societies for some years was the misconception that infant potty training is the same as a somewhat harsh and coercive method used in the early 1900s in Europe and North America that used suppositories to put the baby on a strict schedule of bowel movements.

This harsh toilet training method is described in the 1929 and 1935 editions of Infant Care, a US Department of Labor, Children's Bureau publication.

[5] Boucke's method of infant potty training focuses on learning and responding to the child’s natural elimination timing and signals rather than trying to institute a strict schedule.