Some toddlers are potty trained before they’re 2 years old. Some toddlers even managed to get potty trained in less than one week. Then there’s Olivia…
Olivia has been potty training since late summer, and she’s definitely make some progress. In fact just last week, she went poop and tried to wipe herself without any help. Before she was finished, she did call out from the bathroom “Daddy, can you come help me?” I went in there to find she was holding soiled toilet paper in one hand, a clump of poop in the other hand, and there was another clump of poop smeared on the bathroom floor. But no matter… at least she tried.
She does great going poop in the toilet. I can’t even remember the last time she pooped in her pants. The problem we’re having is going potty. I guess the girl just loves to pee in her pull-up.
She does great at daycare, but not at home
Let me rephrase that last statement. What I should have said was… I guess the girl just loves to pee in her pull-up at home.
Olivia does great going potty at daycare. She hasn’t had an accident while at daycare for many weeks. In fact, as far as daycare is concerned, she’s basically done being potty-trained. Yet when she’s home, the girl refuses to go potty. If we simply ask the question “do you need to go potty” she almost always gives us an angry and emphatic NO!
Olivia does great going potty at daycare.
I believe that something we did in the past must have formed a trigger. Perhaps we nagged her too much to go potty. I’m not sure what it is, but it’s there, and we’re stuck dealing with it now.
Now we’re trying all types of incentives to convince her to use the potty. Every time she goes potty while at home, she gets to put a sticker on a chart we keep on the refrigerator. We’ve also tried giving her a jelly bean after each successful trip to the bathroom. These incentives have worked sporadically, but often Olivia could just care less.
Patience and perseverance are probably the answer
I suspect that there’s not much we’ll be able to do to proactively correct this behavior. My guess is that we’ll just have to wait it out. As she gets older, she’ll hopefully just grow out of whatever trigger causes her to not want to potty at home. And as long as Shan and I don’t put too much pressure on her, hopefully she’ll be fully potty trained before we know it.
What about you?
Do you have any potty training stories to share? Do you have suggestions for how we should handle this situation? Please share them in the comments section below.
Tags: Daycare, Poop, Potty Training
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