POTTY TRAINING

M. is now 2 and 3 months, the season is getting warmer and I think she is ready to make the big step from baby to little girl.
I am expecting her to understand exactly where she needs to make a wee and poo and why, and I am also expecting lots of mess and accident for the first week, getting better and better as the days pass.

To make the all process rewarding, and hopefully quicker, I have introduced a reward chart, similar to the ones I made previously. We chose to have Meg and Mog on it, her favourite book characters, and every time she makes wee in the potty she will get a sticker, sometimes even only the effort to sit and try will award her a sticker (at least for the first couple of days).



The first day (friday, 4 days ago)was quite disappointing for me, because M. made a couple of wees on the floor and didn't even care or have any feelings for it, she just moved away from her puddle and kept on being busy with her toys. I didn't expect that she wouldn't even tell me that she has done it!
I felt that I was up to a difficult and long task.

I then introduced to the chart a final prize she would get if she could collect lots of stickers and become really good at using the potty. This prize is something that she wants from long time: a scooter.
I cut a picture of it from the Argos' catalogue and I sticked it to the chart, so every time she goes to put a sticker she is reminded of her prize.
To make her successful efforts even more rewarding troughtout the potty training I told her I will reward her from time to time with a clog-charm for her clogs; since she is into the little mermaid at the moment, I bought from e-bay 4 charms with different characters from the walt-disney animation. Today she got Sebastian because she made a wee on the grass in the park, and when we arrived home I gave her the Ariel one because again she made wee on her own, today she never wet herself.

Now our chart looks like this: stickers that she got for using the potty, on the left the photos of her future scooter and hung on Meg's hat the bag with the clog-charms.



I am really proud of her to have progressed so quickly! Of course I am expecting more mess and accidents, but the important thing is that she is getting in the habit to use the potty.