A Breakthrough in Potty Training
February 28, 2004 on 9:53 pm | In Main |Sean made a major breakthrough in potty training this morning. He went poop in the potty! For the last few days, we have had Sean running around the house with no underwear, diapers, or pants. I know Sean tends to go right after meals, so I took off his pants after breakfast this morning. I suggested that Sean sit on the potty if he had to go, and offered to help. He wanted to do it all by himself, even locking the door! We had been using a sand timer to let Sean know that he had to sit on the pot for a certain amount of time, even if he didn’t feel like he wanted to go. Sean came out of the bathroom, and wanted the sand timer. So I got it for him, and he closed the door behind me. Several minutes later, Sean came out of the bathroom. Shortly afterwards, he said he wanted to go back and sit on the potty. This repeated several times, until finally he came out and told me he did it. I didn’t believe him, but went and looked anyway. Sure enough, there it was, a poop in the potty. I gave Sean lots of praise, and showed Sean how to wipe himself, and to make sure he washed his hands afterwards.
Sean was excited to tell Cortney. Cortney had promised a present to Sean if he went poop in the potty, so she took Sean out later on in the day to go to Toys R Us. Sean picked out a mountain with sound to go with his Thomas train set.
We are not done with the potty training, by a longshot, but at least we are making progress!
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