Today we tried a different trick for Charlie and his potty training. This process has been so different for him than it was for our other two boys. While he's not nearly as old as Andy was when he was ready, Charlie is months and months behind where Canon was.
We've tried a bunch of different things to try and motivate Charlie... starting with the basic and simple stuff (ie. bribing him with M&M's, toys, 'big boy' underwear, Santa gifts, etc.) with no avail. When you ask Charlie if he's a big boy or a baby, he says, "I'm just Charlie!" Which is oh, so true!
Today, I stayed home sick from work (I basically can't inhale, I'm so congested... which sucks). We were also painting the house and so I knew we'd be home all day long. Charlie is motivated to wear underwear, but doesn't have the initiative to go potty when necessary. He said he wanted to wear his Lightning McQueen undies today, so knowing I'd be distracted, I set my phone's alarm to go off in an hour to remind me to have him go potty. When the alarm went off, Charlie was in the room and he thought someone was calling me. In a spark of brilliance, I told him Lightning McQueen was calling for him to ask if his underwear was dry and if he needed to go potty. Charlie played along with me and told McQueen that he would go potty right now.
So he went. And we proceeded to stay dry all day with alarms going off at longer intervals! Charlie would talk to Lightning and agree to go potty (even this is a big step). At one point in the afternoon, he got soaked playing outside in the pool of water in the neighbors sandbox. We changed his pants and underwear (He chose the Wall-E ones) and from then on, Wall-E was calling him everytime the alarm went off again. Unfortunately, at the last alarm at 8:00 tonight, Charlie did NOT have a good report for Wall-E because he had gone poo in the Wall-E underwear :( Booo!! Thankfully it was an easy cleanup, but so frustrating! This #2 potty training has been tough-tough-tough! He still wants to go and hide instead of using the potty.
So, we'll try it again tomorrow. Paul is willing to give it a go, since he's the one who will be home with Charlie. We're hoping Charlie will be motivated to stay dry ALL day long so he can get another train car for his GeoTrax set! It may be a while, but I've got my fingers crossed that this trick may work!
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Good luck! Potty training can be SOOOOOO frustrating, no question. My oldest potty-trained himself at 2 1/2 so I thought that was how it was supposed to roll. hahahaha! I was so naive! My daughter that is as stubborn as me was almost four, and my other son finally figured it out at 3 1/2. You just have to find their individual button and exploit it for all it's worth! ;)
Speaking of which, I can smell my 3 1/2 year old. I gotta go change a very stubborn bum.
I am going to try that! I have been potty training Junior for about six months and he still has regular accidents. lately I realized that if I just make him go once every few hours he does well.
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