I feel like I'm driving her crazy!!!

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SingALong ↓

Sun, Jan 31 2010, 1:50 pm

I just started training my DD almost 3 yrs old. she is very used to the concept of potty toilet, has been using it on and off the past few months but only when she wanted, she wore a pamper always. the past two days I took off her pamper and she's running around with nothing/underwear.

im asking her every 20 minutes to use the potty. she usually says she doesn't need to but sometimes she has accidents. (2-3 each day).

is it normal to ask her/remind her so many times to go on the potty? I'm also bribing her with a candy corn each time she sits on the potty, even if no pee comes, just a reward for sitting on the potty and trying.

I feel like im driving her crazy, constantly asking her to go. shoudl I just let it go and see if she remembers on her own? (she did go on her own twice in past 2 days.) I can't remember what it was like with my older DD.

Alef Bais

Sun, Jan 31 2010, 9:18 pm

What helped a lot with toilet training my boys was a chart we made. We drew a big ladder and cut out a photo of the child. Every time the child used the potty successfully, he climbed a rung up the ladder by moving the photo up. We stuck a small prize at the top and he was motivated to get all the way up the ladder to get it. When he reached the top, we started at the bottom again with a new prize. We did this until the kid got the idea to keep using the potty. B"H it worked for us!

greenfire

Sun, Jan 31 2010, 10:07 pm

nobody wants to go to the bathroom every 20 minutes ... do it at set intervals ... when she wakes up, before she naps, before she eats, after she eats, in the middle of play because they get distracted, before you leave the house, after you come back (even if she wears a diaper outside) ...

go together to buy pretty panties, sing praises to her (I'm not in the candy business), and have her help clean up any accidents ...

718

Tue, Feb 16 2010, 10:54 am

greenfire wrote:

It depends where youre up to... in the begining I also asked ds every 20 min cuz its not second nature to them. Either way its good to take him at set intervals, wether he needs to or not.

↑ SingALong

Sun, Feb 21 2010, 3:28 pm

sooo thanks for all the advice. it was 4 long hard days, but last two days were only 1 accident each. morah said no problem to send her to playgroup. she B"H hasn't had accidents at school and only the first shabbos at home she had some but otherwise its been smooth sailing. I can even go out with her!!!!

now she wakes me up at like 2-3 in the morning to use the toilet even though I give her a pamper!!!! just gotta figure out how to work this one out.

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