Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Will Potty for Prizes

Yes we are not beyond bribing in this whole potty training journey - and especially so for eww-ing in the potty. Yet we've created a monster. A monster that just last Friday informed his BigMama alright no prizes no ewwing in the pot when she told him she was giving him the last prize she had.

We may be wearing pull-ups to Jr High at the rate we're going and we'll be broke to boot if he thinks every time he goes he gets a prize. But thankfully you can totally trick him sometimes -with prizes like Extra Bubbles to make it high-uh in the bathtub, which worked tonight (thankfully).

And we did Make It High-uh & put the Baby Rocket, Leo, turtle and Back Yard Again pirate ship with 'niqua & Wablo wid de peg weg in the tub, too. Let him have an especially long playtime tonight - until all de bubbles dey are gone. Wrinkled little feet and hands but the Monkey Boy had a blast (and readers should not there was water All Over The Bathroom, too!).

2 comments:

Samantha said...
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Samantha said...

I just wanted to correct my spelling, but somehow deleted my comment!

I tried to say...

I feel your pain in potty-training a boy! One of my boys would only tee-tee a little bit at a time. By doing this, he could go 10 times in an hour... and earn 10 M&M's in an hour...

There's no easy answer... no matter what reward you choose, they can always find a way to work it!