DD is 2. She does amazing during the day (we usually have MAYBE 2 accidents a week) at meal time it's strange though. I take her potty before we eat, sit her in her high chair and we all eat dinner as a family.
It never fails. Sometime during the meal she'll wet herself. She'll tell me when she has to go number 2, but number one she just goes right then and there without saying a word until it's too late.
Help, I don't know what to do.
*****UPDATE*****
Today we had lunch AND dinner in big girl undies with no accidents! I was so excited that we got dessert for both meals.
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I'd do exactly what you do when she has accidents any other time of day. For me that would have meant changing her, cleaning up, and then right back to what you were doing. Eventually she'll get the hang of it.
We're having the opposite problem. DD will claim she has to go about 20 times during dinner. She uses it as a ploy to get out of the booster seat so she can (she thinks) go play. We're just being really consistent with making her go back to eating, even if there were only 2 bites left. I hope this works. It takes a looooong time to finish dinner now, even when she's clearly hungy.
Maybe just the consistency of cleaning up then going back to dinner will (eventually) work. I wonder if sitting in the chair sort of feels like the potty so it doesn't occur to her that she needs to go until it's too late.
Quoting MommaForever007:
Tell her no more food after her accident (be it the rest of dinner or a dessert) she'll learn
A child that's in the midst of potty training shouldn't be punished for a mess. And I'm a firm believer that withholding food should never be an option for a child. No dessert is an option but not stopping all food.
Quoting poppys_mommy:
We're having the opposite problem. DD will claim she has to go about 20 times during dinner. She uses it as a ploy to get out of the booster seat so she can (she thinks) go play. We're just being really consistent with making her go back to eating, even if there were only 2 bites left. I hope this works. It takes a looooong time to finish dinner now, even when she's clearly hungy.
Maybe just the consistency of cleaning up then going back to dinner will (eventually) work. I wonder if sitting in the chair sort of feels like the potty so it doesn't occur to her that she needs to go until it's too late.
It's common for a child to use "I need to potty" to get out of things that they don't want to do (go to bed, take a nap, take a bath, clean their room, get up from somewhere that they are bored, etc.) when potty is a new thing. Just be sure to take her every single time she says she needs to go. Otherwise, she'll possibly stop asking all the time.
Quoting Andrewsmom70:
Quoting MommaForever007:
Tell her no more food after her accident (be it the rest of dinner or a dessert) she'll learnA child that's in the midst of potty training shouldn't be punished for a mess. And I'm a firm believer that withholding food should never be an option for a child. No dessert is an option but not stopping all food.
I agree with 70. I'm not going to withhold food. We're doing the no desserts or snack thing though.
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Potty training gone wrong!
- mna_823
on Jan. 31, 2011 at 4:25 PM