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Clicky about PTing my "children"

linzpinz14linzpinz14
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I have 4 childcare children that are being potty trained this summer. 1 of them is Cecelia and I plan to start as soon as school is out.  1 of them is 3 years old and Mom wants to start PTing, but seems to be really relaxed on how it is done.  1 of them is 3 and a half and he is in the middle of PT.  He does well at preschool and goes here only if I ask him and does not do well at home.  1 of them turns 3 this June and his mom will start him fully training once school is out too. 

The mom of the one who turns 3 in June asked if I could start putting him on the potty a couple times per day.  If he goes, cool.  If not, no big deal.  He will stay in diapers until June.  But her pedi reccommended getting him into a routine of sitting on the potty at certain intervals every day.

Here is my plan: Make sticker charts for all of these children.  Have them sit on the potty at at least 3 points every day - 15-30 min after bfast, 15-30 min after lunch, and after waking from nap.  They will all stay in diapers.  If they "do" anything on the potty, they get a sticker to display on the chart and a ridiculous amount of praise from me.  If they do nothing, no big deal. 

My worries are:

1.  That I am making potty training too lax of a thing and when they are all fully transitioned into underwear they will be used to only going when they are asked?

2.  That starting them out in diapers will get them used to having a barrier for accidents and that a better idea would be to wait until they are just in underwear?

3.  That using and displaying sticker charts for all of them will be fostering competition at a young age?  Plus only 2 of them are here every day and the other 2 come on separate days, which means 2 of them will have a boatload of stickers (hopefully!) and 2 will not have many at all.

4.  That using a sticker chart is going to make them dependent on physical rewards and it will be difficult to transition to a no-reward system?

5.  That I am crazy for trying to start potty training four children when I am 26 weeks pregnant?

I have not done a lot of research on the "types" of potty training and I'm sure a little research would answer some of these worries/questions.  I just thought I would come to my mommy experts first.  :)

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  • KYmama9286KYmama9286 member
    What about having each child have their own sticker chart that stays in a special folder or something? That will eliminate the comparison and I dont think you are nuts if all the kids are that close to 3. I would talk to the parents and tell them what you are thinking and see how they feel about it.
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  • allibaba76allibaba76

    Sounds like a good plan but I would just scrap the whole sticker chart completely. 

     

    I just read this on the 4C site about rewarding kids vs. positive reinforcement. https://blogproviders.4cforchildren.org/2011/04/20/rewarding-children–at-what-cost/

     

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  • linzpinz14linzpinz14
    imageallibaba76:

    Sounds like a good plan but I would just scrap the whole sticker chart completely. 

     

    I just read this on the 4C site about rewarding kids vs. positive reinforcement. https://blogproviders.4cforchildren.org/2011/04/20/rewarding-children–at-what-cost/

     

    Thanks for sharing.  The whole sticker chart thing has me worried too... when I taught elementary, I prefered to use positive reinforcement over rewards or incentives.  I tended to only use those in cases where a child needed more than positive reinforcement to change a behavior. 

    I feel lost about PTing.  It seems so difficult to me.  I really watch some good kids and they all respond really well to postive comments.  I rarely have to provide any consequences.  I feel like PTing is a whole new world, like most of them aren't going to just WANT to do it.  Even though we have been talking it up and reading books and they see me get really excited when the 3 and a half year old uses the potty. 

    I am concerned that if I don't start with rewards, that they will not have an incentive to go on it instead of in their diapers.  And then when myself and the other moms switch to underwear, it will be more even more difficult to get them to want to sit on the potty.  I dunno, is this just a fear and not a reality?

    And Lauren, I like your idea about keep them in a folder.  And Allibaba, I think we need to be FB friends with our similar views on childcare and organic food.  :)

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