[blparent] Potty Training Gone Wrong

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Well, I was considering putting her in a nursery school just for a few 
hours, two or three mornings a week, for the social interaction.  But once 
they are three, a lot of programs want the kids to be trained.  There's no 
hurry to put her in a program, though, or at least no deadline.

Jo Elizabeth

"Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that never 
were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy

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From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:17 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Potty Training Gone Wrong

> I would just wait, she doesn't seem ready.
> No need to force it, unless she has to be potty trained for up coming 
> school
> or something.
> Just my opinion.
> Michael
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 18:57
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Potty Training Gone Wrong
>
> Hi, all.  I'm back again with another question.  I'm so glad I have this
> list of people to talk to.  Sarah and I are having no luck with the potty
> training thing.  I went back through the archives but couldn't find any
> other posts that really dealt with our situation.
>
> I got Sarah a video about potty training months ago, and she loves it.  I
> got two potty chairs, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, and she
> explored them thoroughly and sat on them a few times, first with clothes 
> on
> and then with her diaper off.  I let her watch me use the toilet, and then
> flush it and see the water go down.  We talked about hand washing, which 
> she
> loves, and how she's a big girl now and it's time to move on from diapers.
> So far so good.
>
> Then we picked out big girl underpants at the store so she could be just
> like Mom, and we hit the mother of all roadblocks.  We really talked up 
> the
> underpants, and Sarah was excited when she wore her first pair.  But when
> she wet herself, she freaked out and started crying.  I told her it was no
> big deal, that we would just change her clothes and move on, but that if 
> she
> got a feeling in her tummy again, she should tell me so we could go sit on
> the potty.  She wet herself several more times, and got more hysterical 
> with
> each accident.  Finally, she said she didn't want to pee anymore, and she
> refused to wear big girl underpants.
>
> Back to diapers we went, and I wasn't worried.  I figured I'd let it ride
> for a few days and try again.  But every time I've suggested putting on 
> big
> girl underpants, she cries and says she wants to stay in diapers.  In 
> other
> areas, she's proud to be a big girl--she drinks out of big girl cups and
> sleeps in a big girl bed.  But I guess she scared herself when she wet her
> pants, and she's stuck on that.
>
> Any suggestions?  Do I quit for now and try in a few months?  Is there
> anything I can do to make training more positive?  (I've tried giving her 
> a
> sucker for sitting on the potty, but she's so turned off by it now that 
> even
> that doesn't work.)
>
> Thanks,
> Jo Elizabeth
>
>
> "Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that 
> never
> were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy
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