***CAUTION*** Mother venting just a little bit below.
Katelyn is STILL not potty trained. That child has a bladder of steel. She can go 12 hours with out going potty. I kid you not. We have tried twice to potty train her and are now on our second break. She tells us that she is a baby like Baby Girl (Mikayla) and she wears diapers. I have told her that she has to wear at least a pull-up to school so it looks like we are putting some effort in. She will sit at the table at dinner and tell us, "No diapers!" Then she wets in it and wants it changed. She knows what is going on. She has gone on the potty 2 times in the 2nd round of training. The first round I worked with her for 5 days and nothing went in the potty. Mike had to tell me to take a break. I took a month off and tried again. She did nothing for 4 days that was in the potty. And let me just say we did all the fun juice drinks and everything. We did not buy the peeing doll because one, gross and two, she has 3 older sisters who are perfectly good examples on how to use the potty. So I saturated her with juice and tried again and again to get her to sit on the potty. And just so you know if she really has to go she will stop drinking anything because she has made the connection that if she drinks more she pees more. We have a sit that fits on the toilet and a portable one that she can sit one to watch TV. She has stood up from the portable one to pee next to it. I finally got her to go for the first time on the potty after literally 1 hour of talking to her and sitting on the floor next to the potty. Tile floors are not that comfortable. I finally was literally pushing on her bladder when she went. This was at 6:30 at night. She had not gone since 8:30 that morning. We had the party. She got a Cinderella barbie. Yay! from everyone. Next day nothing. The next day she literally went 12 hours with no peeing at all. She held it that long! I was worried about bladder infections and just her needing to just pee in general. Mike put a diaper on her and she filled it with pee within 5 minutes. She just does not want to use the potty. I have looked on all sorts of internet sites for suggestions and none of them work. First of all, those children are willing to sit on the potty. Mine is not. She is fine being a baby and being in diapers. It does not bother her at all.
So if there are any suggestions that anyone can give me, please do. She is 3 1/2 in October and wants nothing to do with the potty. I have done the saturation with drinks, the constant reminders, the demonstrations (not me, her sisters), the party after the first success, the sticker chart, the new character panties, and anything else I can think of. And the thing that kills me about this is I am not a rookie. She is not the 1st kid that I have ever potty trained. She is my 4th!! I keep getting told that she will not go to kindergarten in diapers. If anyone will test that, it is Katelyn. I have never had a 3 year old go to preschool in diapers or pull-ups (okay, Karly did for the 1st week. She was only like 2 weeks into using the potty) and Katelyn is. Honestly, if I didn't love her so much or think she is so cute I would give her away to the Indians. ;0)
3 comments:
I think I might be starting those not-so-warm showers by now, if it were me. Laura knows what you're going through-that's how Emma was. You always hope it's a good experience and offer all the good, positive things but at some point you have to discipline them I suppose. Good luck, I'm sure I'll be talking to you soon!
Poor Kathy! I have no advice for you on that. We waited until Anna was three and we had a pretty easy time of it. So sorry.
well...I had a stubborn boy too as you know. He was into his second week of being 4 until he was full-fledged trained with no accidents. Some kids just don't want to and people would say to me...it will just click one day. And it did. MAde me mad, but it did. I potty trained him off an on for almost 2 years before it clicked. But I probably did it wrong...towards the end....I was so frustrated that when he would get off the potty and go in his room and fill his pull up....he would get spanked and not lightly and he would get lectured for hours and I laid the guilt on pretty thick. I would even cry and tell him he was hurting me. Well...as abusive as that sounds....it worked. Please don't report me.")
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