I'm seriously in crunch time here with Sylvia. Yes, she is 37 months old and still not potty trained. I know I shouldn't, but I feel like it's a personal failure of mine. Becca was 100% trained at a little over 2.5, and the standard approach worked with her. We let her watch Potty Power, bribed her with suckers and stickers, and she worked it out.
Sylvia is Sylvia, and it is just not working with her. She has no developmental delays and is a very bright little girl, but she is stubborn and willful as they come. She sat happily on the potty at around 16 months, but never got into it. I've had a few go-rounds really trying to PT her and all have failed. She's oblivious to bribes. I tried just putting her in big girl undies and she blithely peed (and pooped) in them. I can think of better things to do than chase her around, mopping up pee.
She can go potty. She is perfectly capable. She has stopped herself and realized she had to pee, and we've made it there in time. But she doesn't always care to do it. And the poop - somehow she's gotten herself crossed up and thinks that it's pooping in the potty if we dump it in there from her diaper. Let's be honest - I can lead her to the potty, but I can't make her go. And until she wants to train, there's not a lot I can do - give her a diaper or clean up a lot of pee and poop.But she's over 3 now, and she could start gymnastics this summer - if she potty trained. I have already signed her up for preschool in August - but she can only go if she potty trains. I'm starting to get worried that I'm going to have to ask for my registration fee to be refunded because the child will not go potty!
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And you have solved your own dilemma right there, Amber. You can not potty train Sylvia before she is ready...anything else is training YOU to watch for her signals and take her, which isn't what you want.
Anyway, nobody ever toddled off to Harvard in their diapers, right? She'll get there.
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