Now the most exciting milestone of the month is...
It's been a long process. I've been so careful not to push potty training on her that it's taken about 5 months of trying off and on. I didn't want to traumatize her. Looking back, I think I should have been more persistent with it. I tried a few different incentives to get her excited about the whole thing. At first we did a sticker chart. That lasted for about 2 days and then she could care less. She would freak out when I said it was potty time, so we took some time off. Then we tried treats as the "reward". This time she would be okay with going when I said "potty time", but never told us when she needed to go. We had a lot of accidents, and that got us all very frustrated. So we took another break. Then we decided we should try a toy as an incentive. So I took Sydney to the store and we walked up and down the toy aisles at Target. I would show Sydney a toy that I thought she might like and she would get excited and I'd ask. "Can you learn how to go in the potty for this toy?" and she would say "No way." After going down every toy aisle, and threatening to leave without a toy, Sydney decided on an assortment of animals, seen here
SYDNEY IS POTTY TRAINED!!
It's been a long process. I've been so careful not to push potty training on her that it's taken about 5 months of trying off and on. I didn't want to traumatize her. Looking back, I think I should have been more persistent with it. I tried a few different incentives to get her excited about the whole thing. At first we did a sticker chart. That lasted for about 2 days and then she could care less. She would freak out when I said it was potty time, so we took some time off. Then we tried treats as the "reward". This time she would be okay with going when I said "potty time", but never told us when she needed to go. We had a lot of accidents, and that got us all very frustrated. So we took another break. Then we decided we should try a toy as an incentive. So I took Sydney to the store and we walked up and down the toy aisles at Target. I would show Sydney a toy that I thought she might like and she would get excited and I'd ask. "Can you learn how to go in the potty for this toy?" and she would say "No way." After going down every toy aisle, and threatening to leave without a toy, Sydney decided on an assortment of animals, seen here
The toys worked for a while, but Sydney just wasn't interested in telling us when she needed to go. Finally I took the toys away for a day when she had an accident and we haven't had very many problems since. Whew! I'm so glad it's over and now we can save the $50 a month we would have spent on diapers and wipes for her. Hurray!
6 comments:
Very cute teeth, that's so exciting (but not for Sydney because of the biting)!
Congrats on having Sydney potty trained, sounds like quite the feat, and the extra money can't be too bad either.
Nice pictures by the way.
yeah to milestones!!!! you lucky duck.
YEA FOR POTTY TRAINING!!!! When Carter finally decides to join the bandwagon we should have a "potty trained party" and I mean for US not for the kids!!!! Cute teeth Zoe!!
I am so Jealous of you and syd. Emillee is really frustrating me. She does not seem interested or care about the rewards! Ethan was not this hard!! Great job!
That is awesome! Way to go SydneyI am working on it with Myles but Myles isn't working with me on it. Maybe we will try again in a month or so!
Yea!!! I HATE potty training. We are trying to potty train Christian right now, and if we take his pants off and let him run around bottomless all day at home, he will go in the toilet every time. But, as soon as we put on any kind of undies, real or pull-ups, he will pee in them every time! Some of my friends told me about a book called 'Toilet training in 1 day', and they swear it works, so I'm going to check it out at the library and hope it works for Christian.
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