Making Decisions
Posted by Rachel
It is so wonderful when a person decides to do something and sticks to it. I believe it is this way with potty training. From the beginning, we hardly had any trouble getting Abby to pee on the potty. We had waited until she really started to show interest in the potty. We began potty training when Abby was over 2 1/2 years old. She loved being a big girl and peeing on the potty. Every time she did, she received two stickers. One to put on her chart, and one to put on her shirt. It worked great. She eventually just went potty and didn’t need to receive the stickers anymore. Pooping, on the other hand, was a different story.
Abby would sit and sit on the potty and never go nor try to poop. It always seemed liked 5 minutes after she got off the potty she would poop in her pants. We could not figure out how to get her to do it on the potty. We had prizes for her, which she saw and knew about, that she would get if she pooped on the potty, but this also didn’t seem to work. Nothing we did as parents could get it through to her that she needed to poop on the potty and not in her pants, especially since she wore big girl underwear and not pull ups (we only do pull ups at night.)
Then, it seemed like one day after we got back from the beach, Abby just decided “now is the time.” She was the one who decided. True, she still wanted to receive her prizes for pooping on the potty, but that isn’t what got her to do it. Since we got back, Abby has been great about telling us when she needs to go poop, and she does it on the potty now. She hasn’t had a pooping accident since we got back from the beach. She now has quite the collection of matchbox cars for all her effort.
Way to go Abby! We are so proud of you!
