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Potty training update: the great poop adventure continues
Filed under: Toddlers Preschoolers, Development/Milestones: Babies, That's Entertainment
For the past three weeks, I've been holding forth one heck of a bribe in the
continuing potty-training poop battles (if you haven't kept track, Everett, at three-and-a-half, has been doing great
with the pee, not so great
with the poop). It's the Curious
George movie.
Everett has never been to a movie in a theater, and he doesn't even know how awesome this is going to be. He does know that he loves Curious George, the trailers on the Disney Channel say so (oh, you marketers, how I bless and curse you!). He also has been told that, if he goes poop in the potty and not in his underwear or pants or on the floor (the laundry here: you don't want to know), he gets to go see the movie.
At first, I set up a "from now 'til the movie opens" bribe. That was blown on an almost daily basis, so I revised: two times. Just twice.
As I type this, Everett is sitting on the potty! He went himself, without needing to be prompted or asked or telling me that his "poop feeling went away" (always followed within 30 minutes by a major accident). No poop on his underwear. No poop on his pants. No poop on the floor. No poop down his legs! I want to cheer and sing glory to the heavens.
And Everett, he only has to do this one more time to go to Curious George. I cannot wait.
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2-14-2006 @ 4:26PM
momma2mingbu said...We took our kids to see Curious George on Sunday. This was the first movie for our girls (ages 5 years and 3 years) and they both LOVED it. (I think the 7 year old enjoyed it too.)
Keep up the good work Everett, you're gonna love seeing George bigger than life!
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2-14-2006 @ 4:40PM
StephanieS said...I had the same poop problem with my son. Hang in there. Bribery---oh, I mean rewards worked really well for us. I just kept persisting and I think he finally figured out that it was MUCH better to go in the toilet than his pants. Good luck.
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