Eleanor awoke dry today.
Before you all start yellin’, “Whoopie!!!’ keep in mind the following. She hasn’t peed in the potty either. As far as I can tell, she hasn’t peed anywhere.
Holding it in is NO PROBLEM.
Letting it out is a big problem.
What do I have to do to get this old stubborn mule of a child to pee on command?
She gets a reward when she pees on the pot. I offer things she likes – candy, TV, books, and once I promised her a unicorn. No soap (or PEE either).
She gets spanked when she pees on the floor (not that it happens much) She also gets a spank when she lies about peeing on the pot.
I’m now taking the tack of you sit till you pee. I’ve made it kind of unpleasant for her; she has to sit on the potty in the bathroom – alone. So here I sit, candy in hand, waiting for her to pee in the other room. She’s crying. I’m angry. If I could stay at home for a whole week (and someone else took Saralyn), we’d settle this pissing (pardon the pun) contest once and for all, and I would win!
I just need to get this straightened out. She can hold it. She needs to learn to let the pee out when I tell her. How can I get this point across?
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Update:
She peed on the potty. I gave her a round of praise, the potty dance, the pee chips (3 milk chocolate chips), and her princess panties. (She is watching Barney now. Why is PBS running a Barney Christmas in June?) I have set my timer for 2 hours from now. Then we will try again.
Here’s hoping.
Honestly – this may be the hardest thing I have ever done as a parent? Is it like this for every parent?
Hey,
Sorry to hear you are having the potty blues. A friend in my stitching group back in Virginia actually had to send her daughter to a therapist because she would go — at all!
Wishing you pee in the potty,
Dawn
once when I was 2-ish my mother came home and couldn’t find me or my daddy anywhere. Eventually she found us. I was on the potty. I was playing with my toes, content and happy….my poor father was sleeping on the floor. He had won the battle of wills to keep me there but had fallen asleep waiting for me to produce.
I’m not sure who really won that round.
Seriously, potty training is my biggest fear. And this story is not helping.
Just pee in the potty, Eleanor. Do it for Auntie Alias Mother’s sanity.