If you aren’t interested in my daughter’s bladder control you can look away now. 😛
So I guess I didn’t mention what it was I did today with my daughter in detail with the potty training. The website I read said I should take one of her dolls and put a pair of underwear on it and have her put it on the potty. Then, I was supposed to keep having her check the doll to see if it was dry or wet and then she was supposed to check herself to see if she was wet or dry.
At some point you are supposed to wet the doll’s underwear so the child can see what happens when there is an accident and that it’s okay. Then, you’re supposed to have her help change the doll. I have to say that Kassidy didn’t seem to be falling for the doll thing until I got that underwear wet. Her eyes got big as saucers when she touched that doll’s underwear and it was wet. Her face went from, “Aw you’re just pulling my leg, Mom.” to O.O “OMG THIS IS REAL!” Something just clicked in her head at that moment.
We told the doll she had to go in the potty next time and changed her underwear. After that, I just asked Kassidy routinely the rest of the day if she was dry. Sometimes she lied about it or wouldn’t answer cause she was playing so I’d have to go check her myself, but the biggest thing is she was always dry. She went in the potty a total of 4 times. She got chocolate after each time, so she was pretty excited about that. She has equated potty with chocolate LOL. The only problem with that is she thinks she deserves chocolate even if she just sits on the potty for a little bit and didn’t go. She also likes doing the potty dance with Momma after she goes aka The Dance of Joy. She likes helping me pour the pee into the big potty too and flushing it after. She’s so weird…
I did have to tell her every time to go sit on the potty because I kind of had a timer in my head all day. So she never ran to it herself or anything, but progress is progress and I’ll take it. I mean just recently I would have her sit on the potty for quite a long time and then have her get up only to go immediately in her pants as soon as she walked out of bathroom. So that was eliminated today. And, the times she does pee she goes much quicker after sitting down now.
Jiminy Christmas, who would have ever thought I could ramble on like this about potty training of all things? I’m not going to say enjoy, but be happy I’m trying to keep this thing updated, eh.