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- From: tigger@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Grace Sylvan)
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- Subject: Re: Potty Training???
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:10:17 GMT
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- >> I have a 23 month old daughter. She knows what to do and where to go
- >> potty. When I ask her to show me where she needs to go when she has to go
- >> potty, she leads me to her potty chair. After she is wet then she will
- >> say "potty". Is she too young to potty train? I need some ideas.
- >>
- >> Lisa Hamre
-
- Lisa,
-
- She isn't too young. My daughter was in panties at 21 months, after
- she kept her diaper dry on her own (well, she told us every time she
- needed to go, and we'd help her) for a whole weekend.
-
- Give her lots of positive reinforcement, and leave her in diapers
- until she's doing really well. You can try and explain to her that she
- needs to let you know before she wets her diapers, and that she can
- put her pee into the potty. You can try and have her sit on the potty
- for a minute after a meal or nap or other time when she might need to
- pee, to see if she manages to do it. Then you'll get the chance to
- reinforce the behavior.
-
- Katherine started telling us very young - and what we'd do is take her
- to the potty when she told us. Often she had already wet (her first
- attempts were at *15* months, something we thought was incredibly
- unbelievable - but she did manage to pee in the potty a few times
- before medical emergencies turned our life upside down for 2 months).
- But we praised her for sitting on the potty and trying. We picked it
- up again at 17-18 months, and it was slow going. First she'd manage to
- pee in the potty about every other day, then once a day, then twice a
- day, then 3 times a day. We'd praise her for trying, we'd praise her
- more for success. But you don't have a lot of time to find the
- bathroom when they're so young, so you get to know every bathroom
- location everywhere you go :-). We let her tell us when she wanted to
- try, and then we'd praise her for trying. At the beginning, we were so
- corny that when she'd suceed we'd get the other parent to come and
- praise, too, if they were available. Since we kept her in diapers
- until she kept herself dry, accidents weren't a hassle.
-
- She also didn't like laying still for diaper changes, and we'd mention
- that she could avoid diaper changes by learning to use the potty. Oh,
- and the first week out of diapers was horrible. One day dry, the next
- 3 accidents, then another dry day. It took a week or two for her to
- understand that she needed to use the potty *every* time, and I had
- second thoughts during that period. But I carried lots of spare
- clothing for her, and we made it.
-
- Encourage her, and if she loses interest, don't worry, she'll probably
- pick it up again later.
- --
-
- Tigger (Grace Sylvan) Mom of Katherine Yelena, 8/8/89,
- tigger@satyr.sylvan.com Corey 1/31/91; we loved him so,
- Robin Gregory born 2/28/92
-
- "It seems to me that our large goal is to find the ways to help our
- children become humane and strong."
-
- - Dr Haim Ginott quoted by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
-