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December 2010 Moms
theuntaggablek
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Potty crying wolf
theuntaggablek
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Does anybody else's kid do the "I have to go potty" at nap or bedtime? We let him go once....but not more than once. It was becoming a ridic delay tactic. But today it backfired.
He fights nap especially so we tell him that if he gets up, he gets 1warning and the second time we close his bedroom door. (It has a child lock - we open it once he quiets down.) Well today, he kept talking and saying "mama, I need to go potty" after the door had closed for 45 minutes of nap. He'd just gone before nap and pooped after lunch so I held firm. Finally, at 1hr of unsuccessful napping, I go in to find him with hand fulls of poop, poop smeared on his legs and butt and books strewn about the room. So I wiped him down and put both boys in the tub. At least Sebastian had fun bathing little brother and Alden smiled at S, too.
He fights nap especially so we tell him that if he gets up, he gets 1warning and the second time we close his bedroom door. (It has a child lock - we open it once he quiets down.) Well today, he kept talking and saying "mama, I need to go potty" after the door had closed for 45 minutes of nap. He'd just gone before nap and pooped after lunch so I held firm. Finally, at 1hr of unsuccessful napping, I go in to find him with hand fulls of poop, poop smeared on his legs and butt and books strewn about the room. So I wiped him down and put both boys in the tub. At least Sebastian had fun bathing little brother and Alden smiled at S, too.
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Re: Potty crying wolf
J used that as a delay tactic for a while. I would let him try twice and then say no more. I always wondered if maybe he really did have to go, but luckily we never had a poopacalypse. It turned out to be a fairly short lived phase, thank goodness.
DS does this at bedtime, but as of now we are letting him sit on the potty each time he says it. We were just talking yesterday though about whether we should set a limit as to how many times he'd be allowed to go. I think we'll hold off on that for now!
This happened once. Poop everywhere. Now I went back to diapers at "nap" (rarely happens, if ever. Not a napper) and bedtime.
DS sometimes uses it as a delay tactic. It's usually after I say "Mama has to go and use the potty" (my excuse to get out of his room), then he'll say he has to go too. Siiiigh.