Fighting our way back…

Posted on January 22, 2009

We are jumping back into potty training with both feet, and I gotta say, it’s not going well.  Chloe seems to have lost her motivation to be a big girl.  She doesn’t care if we put her in diapers.  She doesn’t want to sit on the potty.  I find myself doing things I promised I would never do.  I even yelled at her, and I almost NEVER yell.  (In my defense, she had just sat down on the potty for like ten minutes, then got up and pooped on the floor.)

Finally, I embraced the phrase, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.”  We moved the potty into the room where she spends most of her time, we turned potty monkey back on as a reminder for her to try at least every half-hour, and I created one of my famous motivation charts (okay, famous in my own mind) where every time she pees she will get a star, and if she stays dry all day she will get to pick a surprise out of mommy’s surprise box.

I know she can do this, she’s done it before, it’s just a matter of convincing her it is in her best interest.  I just keep reminding myself that no one goes to college in diapers, right?  We’ll get there when we get there!