Sunday, September 23, 2007
Potty training, again
(Warning: Plenty of potty talk so move along if you're not interested)

We're on day two and she's had two accidents each day. We're going with a pretty low-key reward method. If she pees in the potty she gets one candy corn. If she poops in the potty she gets three candy corns. She gets a bonus candy corn for being dry when she wakes up from nap. When she wets herself we stay casual about it. Remind her that pee goes in the potty, then make her help clean up.

I think we should have expected to have the accidents because she's really never had very many experiences of peeing on herself. She needs to go through the process of learning that it's undesirable to be wet. Unfortunately she isn't actually telling us when she has to pee. We're just taking her to the potty on a regular basis and giving her the opportunity to go. She did tell us when she was ready to poop. We waited all day yesterday for her to earn those three candy corns and she never had to go. Today I started to worry that we might be causing her to hold it with all our potty training. In the end, I don't think that was the problem. She just didn't need to go yet.

We're going to keep trudging along in hopes she'll get the hang of it. At night we still put her in a diaper and at nap we put her in plastic training pants (thanks Shawnie!). Tomorrow Mary takes over for the day. She's a seasoned pro so I imagine that will only help. Wish us luck.
Written at 9:49 PM by Highlandgal.
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