[tri-med] Re: warning - diaper discussion

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From: "Carolyn" <carolyn.cockburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Has anyone any tips for toilet training?  Ellie's showing very small signs
> of awareness of what's going on in her nappy :-) so perhaps this is now 
> the
> right time for me to be encouraging her.

With Alex, at age 3.5, the best thing was bribery.....er...positive 
reinforcement!!!!!!!!!

I kept a closed jar of plain M and M's in the bathroom and each time he did 
the job he got one.
And it only took a week!!!!!!!!!
It's somewhat amusing, this is a kid who really could live without 
candy/chocolate.

Nighttime training took longer, he was almost 5 before totally in control.

Molly, my NON-trier, took months and months and months of trying and 
discarding various methods. We tried the positive reinforcement using candy 
and/or small cheap trinket ideas, reading on the potty, using a potty 
video/book with her, trying to catch her in the moment.......
I started to think she would NEVER get it.
The trick was getting her some Little Mermaid panties (the movie was fairly 
new and her fav at the time) and Molly did NOT want to tinkle on Aerial. 
:0)

Michelle mom to Alex (19, partial trisomy 14 mosaic) and Molly (16)
MichiganUSA



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