Tales of Potty Training

[stankow]

So Scooter (so sayeth the voters) is more or less fully potty trained at this point, but she does have the occasional accident. Her reward system is that she gets a Hershey's Kiss for dinner if she has no accidents all day. Coincidentally, my wife is on a diet and therefore takes any excuse not to have dessert. Ergo, the following conversation

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[byrneout]

SEND.

THAT WOMAN.

HERE.

Seriously, if she has the potty-training mojo, we will pay her freaking airfare and cook her the good chicken, the one with the morels. [Though it has cream and wine, so it doesn't quite go with the diet.]

[stankow]

Try this. It worked for us, at least.

[errforce1]

We beat our heads against the wall with Erin for months--try, fail, try, fail, etc. We finally gave up; then, shortly before Leah was born, our daycare provider's 2 year-old started trying to use the potty. This apparently awakened Erin's competitive instincts or something, because she was suddenly magically potty-trained. Although she still has to wear a diaper to bed for some reason.