Yes, you heard right. Lily announced today, after peeing in the potty all evening with no accidents or issues (HUGE HOORAY!), that she is too young to poop on the potty.
Our day today started out iffy. She kept coming over to me right after she peed and telling me that she had peed and needed changed and wanted to sit on the potty. By nap time I had a feeling that she KNEW when she needed to go but she just wasn't going on the potty because of the fact that she knew she had a diaper on and it would catch everything until she was "ready" to part from her toys and shows to tell me she needed to go.
So during naptime I decided that we were going to test out the old "strip them down" tactic. Let her go naked and IF she did end up having an accident at least she would actually FEEL the consequence and not have the diaper there to absorb it all.
So she got up and went with no bottoms on from 5pm until 9pm and "amazingly" made it to the potty every single time she had to pee and never peed on the floor. She ended up with 11 stickers just in that 4 hour period which meant that she got to pick out of the prize buckets 4 times! She picked a dora washcloth that "grew" in water, a mickey mouse puzzle and a goofy coloring book and then will get to pick another prize tomorrow morning when she gets up cuz we didn't want her getting a brand new toy right before bed.
The only snag we are running into is that she refuses to poop in the potty. It seemed like she needed to and we kept encouraging her to go but she proclaimed that she was "too young to poop on the potty" and just would not do it. By bed time she was asking for her diaper which I know meant she wanted to poop in the diaper so i'm sure i'll wake up to poop in the morning.
Hopefully eventually she accidently poops when she is on the potty and she can realize that it isn't going to kill her if she poops in the toilet!
Seems like we are making progress!
Happy Valentine's Day and a Freebie!
11 years ago


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