I sure wish it were easier! Seriously! This past week, I have taken Natalie to the potty every 20 minutes......she will pee in the potty maybe once or twice throughout the day. She will either have an accident or just will not pee. If we are in public she is begging to use the potty. CRAZY! I know. She is 3.5. She gets 2 mini m&m's if she pees in the potty. Last fall, we tried a sticker chart, worked a little while but she was uninterested, then got really sick and was cooped up on the couch on o2. So I didn't worry about her going pee in the potty. We've never really gave up with potty training just haven't been that consistent. Now that I am being consistent, she really doesn't care whether or not she goes in the potty or not. Any helpful ideas would be greatly appreciated. I would love for her to be potty trained by the time she starts preschool in August.
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I think every time is such a victory at this age!!! I kept going to the library and looking for ideas that would work. The best advice I ever got was from a book called (something like) "Potty Training in a Day" and it really, really helped. It focused on incentives that the child would only associate with potty training and never get any other time of day and it really worked as soon as I could figure out an incentive that motivated each child. It always ended up being a certain favorite food or drink that from then on they would only get when they sat on the potty chair and no one else in the house got it either until the "trainee" did, so it was like a family celebration sometimes. Other times--not so much--if I was running low!!! Truth in advertising: it always took way more than ONE DAY but that's okay!
Love ya,
Mom
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