[blparent] Potty Training Gone Wrong

[Nikki Fugett-Dobens]

    I know how you feel.  Mackenzie will be 3 in July.  She goes to pre 
school 2 days a week, and she will use the potty there fairly frequently. 
She will not use it for me at home.  It doesn't seem to matter what we do, 
she is determined to stay in diapers.  We have tried the dvds and letting 
her go in with me, but no success yet.  My family acts like she should be 
using the potty, but I have always heard not to push the issue.  They won't 
stay in diapers forever.  I just wish there was a way to help the potty 
training process along.  We keep running into roadblocks!
Nikki

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:57 PM
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


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