[blparent] Potty Training Gone Wrong
Jo Elizabeth Pinto
jopinto at pcdesk.net
Wed Mar 30 00:24:02 UTC 2011
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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