Quote From: lyanna96Hi.
Our 2 year old (girl) fought like cats and dogs about the potty. For her it was a total control issue. We stopped trying to convince her and just rewarded or punished her for going or not going.
Now before you jump all over me about the word "punished", we are talking cold (very) wet wipes, here. No beatings, yelling or anything. We just made going in her diaper a very disagreeable experience.
When she did go on the potty, we raised our arms up in the air and cheered like it was the tie breaker touchdown at the Superbowl. The rewards were a choice of stickers or hershey kisses. (She got 1 for peeing in the potty, and 2 for pooping in the potty- that took longer like the other kids on this board..)
Now, our little girl is 100% potty trained... only for as long as she is 100% naked from the waist down.
As soon as we put a pair of panties or anything on her behind, she thinks it is a diaper and ok to pee/poop in.
Well.... we're working on it. It's hard because we put her in a pull-up to go shopping or for naps, and it's confusing for her when we put panties on. So she's picked out her own "pretty panties" that she doesn't want to get wet.
That's as far as we are now. A work in progress.
On the plus side, she now changes her own diaper when wet or poopy (Heaven help us..!) *laughs*
-Lyanna96
My two year old is going on the potty more but we're a long way from being there. She thinks that pull ups are panties and doesn't like the feel of them wet as much. She went potty 4 times in the past 2 days. Much more than before and she asked to go. I ask her periodically but don't force her. When she goes in her pants then we talk about it and the potty while she's being changed. I think she's doing OK since she just turned 2 in June. She gets a reward of stickers and she gets to call Grandma, who usually brings her something. But I think one of her favorite things is when everyone says that they/we are proud of her. She asks if everyone's proud. She also likes to sit on there alone usually with a book!!
Cathy
