Emery has been saying her personal prayers really well lately and I’ve been trying to teach her to talk to Heavenly Father about her day and thank him for her blessings. This is the gist of her prayer tonight:
“Heavenly Father, thank thee that I could go potty. Bless that I can have a cookie when I go potty. Bless that I can go poop* so that I can get my Snow White dress for Halloween. Bless that Jane can go potty too when her is growing up. In the name…”
Can you tell at all what we’ve been doing lately at our house?
*We don’t really like that word in this house, but it’s the best way to describe that awful thing that keeps happening in the pull-ups and NOT in the potty chair. Anybody have any great ideas? We have a Halloween party on Saturday that I’d like her to wear her costume for, but so far she hasn’t held up her end of the bargain! HELP!
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As for the word, that's what we use. I knew someone who grew up saying lightning and thunder and it caused all sorts of confusion once she got to elementary school. As for helping her go #2 in the potty - it will happen when she's ready. Andrew is almost 5 and we are still having problems. It's not that he doesn't know how or can't realize when it's about to happen, but he doesn't like to wipe himself. He had been doing fine with me wiping him until his friend showed him how to do it himself. I thought it was brilliant and then expected him to just do it himself from then on. A few weeks later he started going in his pants every time and would lie when I asked him if he needed to go or when I asked if he had already gone. Threats of no more friends and lost privileges only made it worse. I always made him clean out his underwear, but it didn't have any affect of getting him to use the toilet again. He started saying he wanted to wear diapers or pull-ups again. After ump-teen talks about it he finally admitted that he "wasn't so good at wiping his wet poopies and it made his hands icky" (he has real issues with his hands getting dirty or sticky or anything). I was so glad to finally understand the problem that I promised I would start wiping him again if he would just start going in the potty again and not in his pants. So far, so good. We had similar issues with him not wanting to wash his hands after going pee-pee. I finally figured out that he used "magic soap" (hand sanitizer) at school instead of soap and water. Once I offered him "magic soap" at home, the wetting his pants stopped.
OK, this is getting to be a long comment, but one more thing I've learned - with Rachael. Some kids feel attached to the poopy, like it is a part of them. They are scared to have it go in the potty where they see it and then flush it down - it's like flushing down there arm or something. If that's happening for you, I'd love to hear your solution because I have now had 4 failed attempts at potty-training Rachael.
We use the real word for it too. What finally got McKay going in the toilet (after I knew he was totally ready for it) was loading him up with pears and grapes. Man, that made it a lot easier and there wasn't any problem with him after a whole day of not going because he was afraid. With all that fruit, he HAD to be successful! Now he's a champ!
how bout "stinky's"?
I hate to tell ya, but you have to let her do it on her own. She has to want to do it. Maybe dont press the situation and let her wear the dress for trying. Then put it up till halloween. I tell ya when they decide for themselves it is like magic!
If you get she is doing her best, she is living up to her end of the deal. And at her age, if she is praying about it, I get she is as you are too. Be Love.
How precious - I love our kids praying. Still can't handle potty training #2. She tells me - No I stay in diapers. :)
I don't like the word poop either but I'll be using it because it is what it is.
as for the costume and party, maybe say, if you try really hard 5 times before Saturday, you can wear the costume on Saturday. give stickers for each try and if she hasn't reached it, reward the effort.
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