Monday, May 5, 2008

Quick update on the potty training thing. I have moved all diapers out of the house and Alaura's now in Pull ups and panties 100% of the time. She's doing better with going #1 in the potty, but still no luck with #2. I'm a firm believer in bribery, so she gets "poo poo suckers and pee pee bears" as she calls them. Jana left the comment about leaving her in her diaper for a little while because she doesn't like the feeling. I would love to do that, except that she gets HORRIBLE diaper rashes if she's wet or poopy for even a few of minutes. :( So I guess I just keep rolling with the punches. She's doing very well though.

Posted by Brooke at 1:57 PM

2 comments:

Pam said...

Hey Brooke! My sister told me about a really good book she read and used with all three of her kids when potty training. It's called "Toilet Training In Less Than A Day". It's by Nathan H. Azrin Ph.D. & Richard M. Foxx Ph.D. You can find it at Barnes & Noble for about $6. I used it for my son and it worked really well! He's been going both #1 & #2 in the toilet for almost a month now! Anyway, I found the thing that worked with him was telling him that he would get to call his Grandpa's and Grandma's and get to tell them what a big boy he was for going poo poo in the toilet. That got him really excited. I talked to him about calling a few other people too (Uncles and Aunts mostly...he loves the phone.) I also called all of them when he wasn't around and asked them to give him a lot of praise when I called with him. After a few days of that he went poop in the toilet and immediately came to me, "Call Grandpa?" So you could try that too, kids love praise.

May 5, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Pam said...

Hope that helps! Tell Eric Happy Birthday! Did you ever get a MySpace page going?

May 5, 2008 at 9:25 PM

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