Potty Training and the Work at Home Mom

I truly tip my hat to all you moms who have your toddlers potty trained. We have made several attempts to potty train Hanna and nothing has quite worked. She is now at the point where she runs to the potty after she has pooped and sits down, making a lovely poopy mess all over.

With my new found feeling of competency I have decided to make a full fledged effort to help her get potty trained this week. We have already tackled getting her sleeping in her own bed, and falling asleep on her own and it’s going quite well.

So far today, we have pooped in our pants, but no tinkles in our pants, but none on the potty either. IT seems unreal to me she hasn’t tinkled yet since she hasn’t gone since she got up this morning and has had lots to drink in effort to get her to pee.

We have set it up at this point where she gets a sticker for going tinkle on the potty. She loves stickers but htey are pretty accessible around here, so we upped the ante and said she could have a lolipop when she gets 2 stickers.

She LOVES lolipops and very rarely gets them, so that seems to be a huge motivating factor. I figure as she gets better at going on the potty we will increase the number of stickers she needs to get before getting a loli, but we just want her to start going.

She has usually started out well, sitting on the potty and being excited about it, but about half way through the first day she just starts yelling NOOOO when it comes time to sit on the potty. Not sure what that’s about, but the lolipop possibility seems to be overcoming this problem.

The problem I’m having is I’m trying to work and I forget to get her to the potty. This has been an ongoing problem with the whole potty training thing. This time I keep setting the timer, not only to remind her to sit on the potty but to remind myself to help her get there before she has an accident.

Any suggestions on this crazy topic would be greatly appreciated. Would love to hear how you all got your little ones potty trained. 🙂