Here's the background: My daughter started using the potty part time around 18 months, was mostly cloth diapered (disposable at night and about 20% of the year when traveling) until age 3, and switched to underwear about a year ago (3 yrs 3 mos), but I put her back in pulls up for a couple months mid-2009 because she was having lots of accidents and I was getting fed up with laundry. She has never been consistently dry at night, and sleeps in a pull up.
She still has LOTS of accidents, both pee & poop, but also has some days where she stays clean and dry all day so I know she CAN do it.
I used a potty training app for the iphone last year and she liked getting "woo hoos!" every time she kept dry. We also used jelly beans as a reward for a while, but I really would like to avoid rewarding for staying dry at this age.
I think I enabled her for a long time, by bringing a bag with a change everywhere, but now I try to just go home when we have an accident while out and about.
We have added a routine of lots of time reading to her on the potty each day and got her a nature's platform for squatting on the potty both of which help her to do her pooping on the potty rather than in her underwear 90% of the time, but now the pee accidents are increasing in frequency again.
I mentioned it to doc at her 4 year appointment, but was feeling pretty laid back about it at the time and doc followed my lead.
She is in a preschool that requires potty training and does OK there since it is less than three hours long and we use potty before and after, plus they have a potty break built in.
Her brother had a similar issue, but it resolved around 5 years so maybe it just takes my kids a little longer or maybe it is something we are doing or not doing.
Over the years I have checked out many books from the library, but none of them seemed to help.
If there is something I can do to help her get on track I'd really love to live in a world with less laundry and less stinky carpet. Have any thoughts or advice???
She still has LOTS of accidents, both pee & poop, but also has some days where she stays clean and dry all day so I know she CAN do it.
I used a potty training app for the iphone last year and she liked getting "woo hoos!" every time she kept dry. We also used jelly beans as a reward for a while, but I really would like to avoid rewarding for staying dry at this age.
I think I enabled her for a long time, by bringing a bag with a change everywhere, but now I try to just go home when we have an accident while out and about.
We have added a routine of lots of time reading to her on the potty each day and got her a nature's platform for squatting on the potty both of which help her to do her pooping on the potty rather than in her underwear 90% of the time, but now the pee accidents are increasing in frequency again.
I mentioned it to doc at her 4 year appointment, but was feeling pretty laid back about it at the time and doc followed my lead.
She is in a preschool that requires potty training and does OK there since it is less than three hours long and we use potty before and after, plus they have a potty break built in.
Her brother had a similar issue, but it resolved around 5 years so maybe it just takes my kids a little longer or maybe it is something we are doing or not doing.
Over the years I have checked out many books from the library, but none of them seemed to help.
If there is something I can do to help her get on track I'd really love to live in a world with less laundry and less stinky carpet. Have any thoughts or advice???
