[blparent] Potty Training Gone Wrong

[Veronica Smith]

No, put only a few diapers in the box and when you get close to the last
one, say, "only 3 more and then you will be wearing big girl panties."  Then
when you get to the next to last, "only 2 more till big girl underwear,"
then when you reach the last one, make sure it is a big deal and say, this
is the last one and when it is gone, you will be a big girl like mommy.  But
what ever you do, don't go back to diapers.    This what we did and it
worked.

-----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 5:57 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


"Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that never
were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy
_______________________________________________
blparent mailing list
blparent at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
blparent:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/madison_tewe%40spi
nn.net