Day 424 in my miracles life
The DVD i bought is here, i have watched made notes and come up with our own little system and style that suits our family and most importatnly that i think suits my little lady.
We have set up the laundry as a little bathroom area for the lady. She has her own potty and beside the potty on the wall is a routine chart (for me and dh to write down her wee habits) a game board and stickers.
What we are doing is really quite simple.
When she wakes up in the morning and after her naps, we sit her on the potty.
During the day she wears undies, not pull ups not nappy pants, just undies… That way she knows when she has done a wee (most of the time because she slips over it!) And we take her to the potty whenever we go or just every 15-20 mintues until we get to know her routine. To get her to the potty without distress we make a game of it, at the moment it is race mommy to the potty and see who can sit down first. She has got the racing part, but when we get there she picks up the potty instead of sitting on it, so i have been ‘leading by example’ and sitting on it myself. Problem is she then thinks its time for a cuddle and gives me a hug! LOL
If she does a wee we get excited and she gets to pick a sticker and place it on the next game board place. Once the game board is filled up she gets a prize. She has seen the prize and knows it is there, cause she points to it all the time. We simply tell her its for when she learns wee’s.
As far as i can gather she wee’s more in the afternoon – but thats as much as i have discovered so far.
Oh and when we go out she gets pull ups with a moisture liner, so she knows that its wet, and so i dont freak out at wee on other peoples floors!
Oh and she gets nappies for nap and bed time, we will deal with that at a later date!
Who knows if it will work, who knows how long it will take, but i know that everything else she has learned by example and repition, so here is to giving it a shot!
I mean whats the worst that could happen? (considering she has already poo’d on the floor and the dog ate it…)
