Pee-Pee In The Potty
For all of you out there without kids, move along to the next blog.
Toddler Boy finally did it! He wakes up with a dry diaper fairly often but he has never- NEVER - used the potty. We did the whole Pee-Pee Party a while back and it was a bust. He sat on the potty and didn't make anything, then got up and wet his pants. Four times.
This morning he had been up for almost two hours when I started getting him dressed for pre-school. His pull-up was dry. I asked him to use the "little potty". He said no, "I use my diaper to make pee-pee".
I said "I'll give you a Snickers" if you use the potty. BINGO! One potty chair full of yellow piss!
You have to find their currency. Boy's is candy.
Jay
posted by Jay @ 4:03 PM
6 Comments:
Jay left out the part about how we first offered a new truck and a variety of other toys to no avail. Apparently he's just been waiting for candy.
Kitti
Potty training is so dang frustrating. My 3 boys are in their late teens and I can STILL remember the cajoling, the wet clothes, the pleading etc etc. But they do eventually get it!
Woo!!! Good for the Boy! It took J forever, and several accidents on the carpet, to finally decide he wanted to pee in the potty, but once he did, there was no looking back. Now if we could only figure out how best to encourage poo in the potty....
Sorry, I wasn't aware of the truck bribe offer. (yesterday that is, we did try that before).
Last night Boy refused to eat any dinner and wanted candy. We said- no candy unless you eat some actual food -OR- use the potty. Ta-Da, he did it again.
Now that there's a precedent I'm not worried about the timeline.
Jay
They do it in their own time. With the older one, she was 3 1/2, but she literally went from Pull-Ups one day to nothing the next and had maybe half a dozen accidents. Now we could have "trained" her for a year, but really all that training would have probably just led to the same result. This way we got it without the hassle.
It's like everything else. You can fight them and train them, or you can save yourself the hassle and just let it happen with some gentle guidance. I think the latter is much easier all around.
Kitti
I agree Kitti....Just let it happen...It saves your sanity....lol...I'm going thru about the same thing as you two...She will use the potty when she wants 2....I give her stickers....she thinks that is cool!!!
Have a great day!!!
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