A lot of us grew up believing that paper training a puppy is the best way to house break a puppy.
And it's a very easy thing to do.
You just put a layer or two of newspaper on the kitchen floor and hope for the best.
For a long time paper training a puppy has been thought to be your puppy's very first lesson.
However, paper training a puppy might not be the best way to potty train your dog.
There are two things you have to think about before you make your mind up that paper training your puppy is the right for you:

Your schedule and the way you live, and also your personality and your puppy's personality.

If you spend a lot of time away from home paper training might be a good idea.
A better idea, if you can afford it, would be to hire someone to take your puppy out one or two times a day.
Or you could enroll your puppy in doggie daycare.

Another thing to think about is that your small puppy might grow up to become a very big dog.

So, before you decide to start with paper training a puppy, think about what will happen when you have a full grown 60 pound dog making on papers in your home.
If that's going to happen, the odds are that you're going to have to deal with training your dog to go outside at some point in the future.
You've heard the saying, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"? That goes for potty training too.
Although it's not impossible, it's a lot easier to train your dog when she is a puppy instead of when she's an adolescent or older.