NO I will NOT go to the bathroom!!

[aylaelise]

So its all about routine and we always go potty before brushing teeth. Well apparently DD was too tired and decided to throw a fit and refuse to go to the bathroom and now it has become a habit! What to do....what to do!

[One_Girl]

If she isn't having accidents at night then I think you should let it go and trust her to use the bathroom when she needs to. Only she knows when she really needs to go and even if she does try to use it as a sleep escape thing later in the night she can only draw using the bathroom out once for a few minutes and she'll find other ways to escape bedtime if that is what she is determined to do, so it just isn't something that I think is worth fighting.

[ssh]

I ask my DD if she needs to go before bed, but I've never made an issue of it. She's never had an accident at night. We don't leave the house in the morning if she hasn't gone to the bathroom so she does have to go before preschool, but she's never complained about it.

[LynnS6]

Does she need to use the bathroom as part of the routine? If she does, then I'd switch when in the routine it goes. Going potty before pjs makes sense to me -- so I'd do: potty, pjs, snack, brush teeth, stories, bed.

[woodchick]

We've had good luck with the phrase, "you don't have to go, but you do need to try."

[Caittune]

we started giving dd the choice. Before books or after. It helps her have some feeling of control.

[aylaelise]

She wakes us up twice at night even after she "goes" before bed....so I guess I was thinking its going to change her getting up at night. I like the idea of not going potty however I'm a little scared she will get up THREE times to go potty at night......but highly doubtful!!

Thanks Ladies!

[aloharuiz]

Kids are hard to convince when it comes to taking a bath especially when the weather is so cold. When I was still a kid, my mother would usually get angry because I refuse to take a bath. My kid also refuses to take a bath especially in the morning. So what I do is I prepare warm water every time she would take a bath.

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[NellieKatz]

I usually have a "let them listen to their body" approach, BUT if it will almost surely involve a wet bed, waking up the family in the middle of the night....then I insist. With my son, I'd say, ok, you don't have to really go...just try and put THREE droplets into the toilet. Just three. So he'd go in and try his 3 drops and of course the rest would follow. :-)