Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 1/25/2004 5:41:00 AM Author: Been there (tibarra75@yahoo.com) Subject: potty training experience I also had a child that potty trained late (late three and a half). There were some similarities to other parents out there. My son had no inclination to pee or poop in the potty. Being a big boy was no motivation; he had a baby brother, so he still wanted to be a baby in some ways. He did not mind having wet pants. We tried having him wear nothing at all; I stopped it because at least with pants on I could tell when he peed. He would be dry all day only when I reminded him to go every 15 minutes. He did not want to wear underwear. We tried having him clean up his own messes; he didn't mind. He was otherwise very bright and there was no physical problem. We got fish potty-training targets; he didn't want to flush them. We tried candy; he would go only when he was in the mood for a piece. There were a couple times I was in tears worrying that I would have a kindergartener that was not completely potty trained. The good news is that a child in this situation can potty train very fast. My son basically was potty trained, for both day and night, in 10 days. What finally worked was a combination of two methods. 1) We gave him "tickets" for each full day that he stayed dry. We then assigned a ticket value to each toy that he wanted to buy when we went to the store. 2) He got a five to ten minute "time-out" for having wet pants, if in my judgement it was something he could have prevented. (I know I'll get emails on this one - "You punished your child for what?!!! But he was not going potty because he didn't want to interrupt his play, so I needed to make having wet pants more of an interruption than going potty.) 3) We stopped relying on Pull-Ups and designated a "last box" of Pull-Ups. (Next child, we will throw out the pull-ups earlier.) Good luck out there to all those parents searching for answers on this one. You'll probably find your own unique solution. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Name: Email: Subject

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