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Potty Training Chart rules?
Yesterday was the first day we broke out the chart. DD did great, only had one accident. However, I blame myself, because I forgot to remind her to try at the 30 minute point and her accident happened at the 45 minute mark. Bad mommy, I know. I still gave her a sticker the next time she peed.
But I remember reading that you're only supposed to give stickers for consecutive use. Does that mean if she has an accident, I remove all of the stickers for that day and we have to start from scratch? That seems sort of unfair, like punishing for an accident while the whole point is to learn which is going to involve one or two accidents, right?
What did you do?
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Re: Potty Training Chart rules?
I let her put up a sticker every time she peed or pooped in the potty. Even if she had an accident, I let her have a sticker if she still finished in the potty.
I waited to potty train until she was telling me she had to go before she actually went. I asked her occasionally, especially if it had been over a couple hours, but mostly let her be the one to tell me.
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I guess I did it wrong, but it still worked for us. We used the regular kitchen calendar on our wall. I told Katy we would put a sticker on the calendar for every day she was completely accident free (not counting night). She was a little over 2.5 when I told her that. We had been potty training for about 6 weeks at that point but I was the one who was not consistent AT ALL. Some days I had her in underwear, some days pull-ups. Some days I gorgot to remind her or thought I could rely on her to tell me when she had to go. So we had spotty results at best.
When I explained that she would get stickers for 100% accident free days, I also told her that when we filled up an entire page with stickers, we would go to "Splash Village" (indoor water park) to celebrate her hard work. We looked at the Splash Village website, since DD had no concept of what it was. Well, 5 weeks later, there were two days on the calendar without a sticker--she was 100% every other day that month. When we were about 3 weeks into it and Katy was wondering if we were ever going to Splash Village and how long it would take, I called the front desk at the Water Park and had them send Katy some pictures of the park along with a note saying "Good job with the potty training and Hope we get to see you soon." It was enough to revive her interest and encourage her the rest of the way.
We used it as a real learning tool. Not only did we talk about potty training and growing up, but we also had numerous talks while she sat on the potty about "earning" things through hard work and how good that feels and also that it's alright to feel proud of herself when she does work hard. We talked about the difference between being proud because she worked hard and feeling proud of things she hasn't earned (such as possessions). We talked about how one is good and one is bad. It was a big month full of lots of lessons. I know she "got it" because she is able to explain it back to me in her own words.
I actually think the extra lessons, talk about pride and earning rewards did as much as the chart itself. It made DD feel so good to earn every single sticker on the chart. It turned out to be a HUGE deal when we put a sticker on the chart each night before bed. DD was so into it, every time we used a public restroom, DD would come out of the stall and announce to everyone in hearing distance that we were going to Splash Village. (It was oddly similar to scoring a touchdown and then yelling "I'm going to Disney World!") I think it would have been less meaningful to her if she had a dozen stickers on the chart every day.