Well....you aren't going to get any lessons from me on this one. I could use a few myself. We have fully embarked on the Potty Training Train and let me tell you....we've had our ups and downs!
It all started a little over a week ago. We were at home and Hayden was showing some interested in going and I told him that if he went on the potty he could pick a treat. So he looked in our treat container and found a......SUCKER!!!! So after that he thought that he should get a sucker after each time he went. So I was thinking...FINALLY we found something that is going to motivate him. He won't have any teeth, but he will be potty trained! (We'll ween him off the suckers later!) So I called Jason and asked him to stop by the store on his way home to pick up a bag of suckers. And it was working! The first day we just kept trying and he would go pretty regularly. An accident or two but we were getting somewhere. The next day, this is huge, he was telling me when he needed to go. He didn't always go, but he was realizing what was going on. My potty training prayers had been answered....or so I thought!!! A couple days later after he was tricking me into thinking this was the real deal. He decided he didn't want to go on the potty anymore. We are now back to struggling to change his pull-ups and struggling to get him to go potty. Today he has gone successfully twice but it takes some pretty sweet talking to get him on the toilet! I have ordered some underwear liners that go over his big boy underwear that still help him feel wet, but keep my furniture, carpet, etc. protected. I'm hoping this will be the trick. I knew this would be frustrating and take patients but the thing that is most irritating is that he has proven he can do it and knows exactly what he is doing but he just doesn't care. I've always known he was laid back, but jeepers creepers! So I will continue to pray my potty training prayers and continue to ask for patients.
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