So we’re now entering month 10 of potty training and I’m so over it. It feels like we’re the ones doing the potty training instead of the other way around because we’re telling Justin to go sit on the potty. If J has to use the bathroom when we tell him to go he goes right away. If not, he plays around for a few minutes and then climbs down and we’ll just tell him to go again in another 30 minutes or so. So the issue isn’t getting him to actually pee in the potty, rather, it’s getting him to realize on his own that he has to go and either telling us he has to pee or just going to the bathroom himself to pee.
People have been telling us that we need to reward him for going to the potty but there really wasn’t anything I could think of. Last week I realized I needed to take something away from him. So cookies it was and I told J no more cookies until he starts going to the bathroom on his own. Well it didn’t work, initially that is.
This past weekend we found J in the bathroom, sitting on the potty, so we rewarded him with cookies. But the next day he had an accident and didn’t like being wet so he changed his own underwear. When I saw what happened I made him put the wet underwear back on, with the hopes that would do the trick. And it may have because Monday J sat through his entire speech therapy session without an accident and after Molly left he went to the bathroom. But the next day I came home and Carl said he had another accident. I felt defeated; that is until I came home today and Carl told me that J's teacher has been taking him to the bathroom at school and he's been peeing standing up. So Carl's pretty sure that J's accident was because he tried to pee standing up at home when usually he sits.
Are we finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel; I sure hope so!!!
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