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December 2010 Moms
EVM1216
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PTing with others
EVM1216
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Mobile title: PTing with others
Currently DH and I are working opposite shifts. DH works days, I work nights, and my mom/ILs watch DD on the weekends while DH and I work all day. We switch to panties about a month ago and I would say it is a major success. I still have to tell DD to take potty breaks 90% of the time, and sometimes she fights me, but she has not had an accident with me in weeks. (OK, so she also has not pooped in my presence and has never pooped in the potty, so maybe no major success.)
However, once I go to work and DH and especially the grandparents take over she has accidents, then they get frustrated and put her in a diaper- which makes me so frustrated. I've tried explaining what I've been doing, but I can't seem to get them to be consistent in it. Does anyone have any ideas how to get these people on the same page? I'm worried that they are prolonging PTing by putting on the diaper, however most of the time when I go to pick her up she is dry, so the diaper was unnecessary anyway.
Currently DH and I are working opposite shifts. DH works days, I work nights, and my mom/ILs watch DD on the weekends while DH and I work all day. We switch to panties about a month ago and I would say it is a major success. I still have to tell DD to take potty breaks 90% of the time, and sometimes she fights me, but she has not had an accident with me in weeks. (OK, so she also has not pooped in my presence and has never pooped in the potty, so maybe no major success.)
However, once I go to work and DH and especially the grandparents take over she has accidents, then they get frustrated and put her in a diaper- which makes me so frustrated. I've tried explaining what I've been doing, but I can't seem to get them to be consistent in it. Does anyone have any ideas how to get these people on the same page? I'm worried that they are prolonging PTing by putting on the diaper, however most of the time when I go to pick her up she is dry, so the diaper was unnecessary anyway.
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Re: PTing with others
C treated pull-ups the same as underwear, not diapers. Might this be an option? They're probably just not reminding her like you do. Can you set timers (like every hour on an iphone or something)?
Could you give them an outline of when to take dd to the potty ie every couple hours or right before meal or snack times so she's getting ample opportunity?
With FI he doesn't trust her when he leaves the house with her alone so he always wants to do a pull-up and she's the type of kid that's like "oh a diaper I'll just use this", or he doesn't bother taking her to the bathroom when they are at a store or something because it's inconvenient to him. Then he'll fight with me about not putting her in a pull-up when we all go out together which is so frustrating because she needs to learn and the switching back and forth is confusing for her.
It is frustrating because I know if I could be with her 24/7 she'd be 100% potty trained, but it's hard work and it's hard to get other people on board when the going gets tough. So really I have absolutely no advice here, just commiseration.
It's really just them all taking the easy way out. I don't think we'd be done potty training if it was just me with her 24/7 but I think we'd be farther along.
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