Well we have had to find a new scheduled time for reading to our daughter. We have had a bedtime routine with Jea for a long time and part of that routine includes (most nights anyway) a book or two or three. That is until about 2 weeks ago when she started to balk at getting a book from her shelf for story time. Guess that is what we get for having a routine at bedtime, Jea has now figured out that getting a book off the shelf equals bedtime shortly. And what 3 year old wants to go to bed? hmmmmm not mine no matter how tired she really is! Story time should not be a power struggle and one that has us, the parents, frustrated beyond belief and her, the child, in tears or throwing a tantrum!
So I have decided to move story time to earlier in the evening, ie at least 2 hours away from bedtime. Both Bill and I love to read and want Jea to have that same passion for books and the ability to imagine from words on a page, travel to far off places or "be" a superhero or whatever. We are starting that new routine this week and will see how it goes. Jea loves her books and is at the stage of memorizing favorites. If she knows the book, heaven forbid you miss a word or line or a page! I want that to continue and her interest in reading to grow.
9/15/2010
Potty Training Saga
Well, this has been an on-going saga for awhile now! As of July of this year, our daughter has been accident free on the #1 side of the equation. She just got it after about 2 weeks of moving from pull-ups/diapers to cloth training pants. On the other hand, #2 (poop) has not been as successful! I will say that on that front, she has never been bothered by a dirty and stinky diaper. In fact, many times since she learned the word NO, it has been a fight to change her when she is dirty. Moving away from diapers did not change this!
About the 15th of August, we moved Jea from training pants to actual little girl panties includig those with Dora the Explorer or one of the Disney Princesses on them. I thought this might entice her to keep those panties clean and be moved to poop in the toilet! No such luck. And her dad and I were getting very very tired of cleaning out the panties. We did make the pact that we would not put Jea back into diapers or pull-ups, however!
Move forward to about 2 weeks ago. A friend related the trick that worked with her oldest. She has 4 boys so I decided that it couldn't hurt! Her trick was to take away pants and underwear if her son did not use the toilet to go #2. This is how we implemented it:
About the 15th of August, we moved Jea from training pants to actual little girl panties includig those with Dora the Explorer or one of the Disney Princesses on them. I thought this might entice her to keep those panties clean and be moved to poop in the toilet! No such luck. And her dad and I were getting very very tired of cleaning out the panties. We did make the pact that we would not put Jea back into diapers or pull-ups, however!
Move forward to about 2 weeks ago. A friend related the trick that worked with her oldest. She has 4 boys so I decided that it couldn't hurt! Her trick was to take away pants and underwear if her son did not use the toilet to go #2. This is how we implemented it:
- Told Jea that as of today (Saturday, September 4, 2010), if she poopd in her panties, they would be taken away and in the house she would not be allowed to wear them again until she pooped in the potty.
- If she pooped in the potty, then she would recieve a sticker on the chart. 5 stickers = a trip to Bouncy Bratz!
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