First day: one accident.
Second day: two accidents.
Third day: three accidents and two pees in a diaper when I was just not up for trying to potty her while doing errands.
Fourth day: no accidents at all during the day but once she got her night time diaper on she peed in it almost instantly and asked for another one.
Holy cow. We might actually get through this!
our kids responded extremely well to a big wall-chart-calendar upon which we placed a little star for each pee and a big star for each poop.
we still have the damn thing, somewhere.
uh, the wall-chart, not the poops.
of course, in our case, they were also competing against each other and that helped a whole hell of a lot.
we knew it was time to take the chart down when they started squeezing out 2 or 3 partial poops in an hour and expecting a star for each one.
damn kids, anyways…
Shanna has been using the potty since she was four months old. She just has times when she really isn’t interested in using the potty. It’s a conscious decision. I really can’t see her being motivated by a star for something she has already been doing for the vast majority of her life.
not motivated by a star?!??!
hell, *I’m* motivated by a star.
‘specially green ones.
but, they have to be really big.
and I hafta be able to put ’em up there.
not some grownup or nothin’.
i forgot you did the early potty stuff.
besides, it might not work for every kid,
but sure did for ours.
🙂 Lots of different things work for different kids. We are just trying to find the right side of the line for ‘encouraging’ her to potty more and enforcing potty time, which just leads to yelling.
we waited until our kids *knew* they should be using the commode (like Sonling would go off by himself and poop his diaper) and then we applied the star thing.
you kinda gotta find something that moves the grrl’s motivation from a push (yelling) to a pull (reward), huh?