[tri-med] Re: warning - diaper discussion

I can't imagine potty training elanor!  Her favorite pastime is to soil her 
brand new clean diaper less than five minutes after being changed. 
sometimes I think she holds it in until we change her wet one so she can poo 
in a clean one.  She's a stinker!  We were working on potty trianing arwen 
when Elanor was born.  She pretty much stopped because of all the stress of 
having a sick sister.  We didn't have the time to be really consistant, so 
we just kind of let it go, and she potty trained pretty much on her own with 
us being cheerleaders.  It's funny, when you are immersed in it, it is such 
a big deal, but looking back, you get perspective.  We stress about it, but 
our kids just do it when they are ready!  Maybe someday elanor will get the 
idea, but I'm not holding my breath!

Jennifer, mom to Arwen, 9; Elanor, 7 (T18); caregiver to Joe & Eric (CP); 
and wife to Andrew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jwaite" <jwaite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 6:22 AM
Subject: [tri-med] Re: warning - diaper discussion


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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