Day 14 of Underwear & a question?
Woo Hoo! We are going on 14 days of underwear...
We have been rewarding her with a one piece of candy after she goes - a jellybean or an m&m - and we've been filling a chart on the wall with stickers for each entire day she stays dry. She's been told when the chart is full that we will go to the toy store and she can pick out a toy.
So here is my question - when should I discontinue the candy rewards? My inital reaction was that when the chart was full we would but then I am afraid that will work against me.
Any ideas?
didn't do it one day and see if she reacts? Like, praise her and all, but just kind of skip the candy part?
I know nothing about this but that seemed to work when weaning DS from his pacifier.
but i used gummy bear vitamins, so it worked well. i kind of just stopped wiht the treats though, when they went to the bathroom we started having a poopoo/potty party, dancing, music, lots of screaming and hooray-ing, etc. they just forgot about the gummy bears.
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"what if the hokey pokey IS what its all about?" - random bumper sticker
Eventually, my daughter either a) didn't ask for one each time, or b) we raised the bar. For example, if we needed to leave the house, she had to use the potty, get her coat & shoes on, and get into the stroller before she could have her reward. Or she had to poop in the potty, which she refused to do for what seemed like a looooong time.
I guess I would go with my instinct if I were you. If you feel that cutting off the M&Ms too soon is going to undo her progress, wait a while longer. Good luck!
I think it took my daughter a couple weeks but after a while she started forgetting about the candy so I wouldn't offer. She's been potty trained for 5 months and every now and then when she goes she'll ask for some M&M's and I'll usually give her a couple. Now we're rewarding for making it through naps without accidents. Just get used to having lots of candy around if you bribe like me!
I don't see a problem with it considering I only give her 2 at a time. If you really want to get healthy about it they make dark chocolate M&M's now and dark chocolate is very benificial to your health;)
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I talked to my husband last night and we came up with this plan:
We aren't offering any more incentives. If she asks we will give them to her. However, we've started talking to her and "setting the stage" and have told her that soon she will just be getting one treat for every day that she stays dry and that eventually those treats will go away because she is a big girl.
She seemed okay with that.
So, we'll just keep at it.