Coop has been in underwear for more than a month now, but he keeps having accidents.
Most of the time they are in the bathroom, but sometimes he doesn't even try.
He doesn't want to be in diapers,
but is he not ready for full-time underwear??
Not really sure what to do, when I get to daycare at lunch
my day is just ruined when he is wearing different pants.
I should be home with my kids and am really struggling with being a working mom and making potty training "Stick"
What am I missing????
5 comments:
Most kids have a regression. For Carter it boiled down to the fact that he didn't want to stop what he was doing so he would rush to the toilet and just not make it in time.
I am sure you are a great mom!
My really unhelpful comment: Blame the babysitter. Even when kids are officially potty trained they need occasional (er...frequent) reminders to get to the potty, especially if they are busy and distracted.
I don't envy you, Tawny. That's quite the conundrum.
And you ARE a good mom.
:)
we just went through this with our little man -- and i am staying home. so i don't think it's the fact that you're gone (no blaming yourself!!). for little d it was like a month and a half, and it was driving me crazy! we tried potty candy, even a potty game (ixl from fisher price); i even made him a chart that he could put stickers on, and he would get to go out for ice cream for three days being dry. finally, i told him if he could just make it ONE day, i would take him out for ice cream. that seemed to finally click: the proper motivation and reward for even little achievements. after we had gone out for ice cream like five or six times (not all in a row), then we went to the three sticker thing. somehow it seemed to finally click, and we haven't had an accident in like 3 weeks. so maybe make a big deal about him being dry for a few hours, then stretch it to a day, then stretch that, etc. good luck!!!
Who knows. We potty trained Amy in April I think it was. She still has accidents most days. So I have no idea. She goes in the potty a lot of the time but not others. If we push her it's worse. I refuse to go back to diapers - what a defeat after this long. But I don't know when she is going to decide to not have accidents anymore. It just has to be her thing. Hopefully Cooper never gets to that point. That's just our experience. I try hard to not get frustrated as I clean her up over and over. And we sure make a big deal about success.
What ever you do, don't read my blog about Lyla...I don't think it will make you feel better, but maybe it can help...I don't know. All I know is that I have heard it is harder to train boys than girls. I also feel that when they are ready...they are ready and we can not push them, even when we REALLY REALLY need them to be trained already!!!!
I agree with Elise...blame the babysitter. Don't blame the fact that you are working, because even if you were home, it would be helpful to have back up, a tag team if you will. That was helpful for me, having Jeff there too. so if the babysitter doesn't have your back, well it won't be easy.
Don't give up, it WILL get better. Either that or he just has a control problem that will plague him his whole life. Oh, wow, that doesn't sound good at all. I am really sorry, I will shut up now.
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