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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait a minute - how has nobody told you about day vs night training?  I'm assuming this is your first kid. I'm not being critical because I've been there but please don't scold her.

Do not take away the pull ups at night. Staying dry at night is not part of typical potty training. Staying dry at night happens when it happens and you can't really rush it.

My teenager took a long time to be night trained. Turned out he had ADHD and that's common for kids who have it. Either way, I knew that I just needed him in pull ups and with a protective sheet over his sheets. He'd get there when he was ready.

As he got older - about five years old, we started waking him up to use the potty at night around midnight before we went to bed.

Eventually they get it but I truly believe that there is nothing you can do right now to help her stay dry at night.

Just buy the pullups, the mattress AND sheet protectors and let her know it's all ok. Some kid's bladders just don't communicate well with their brains to tell them to wake up.  They mature and it magically get better for most kids.

Four is not an age to panic.

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OP here.  The point of my post was how many accidents she has during the day.  I meant I couldn't focus on nighttime because it feels like we'll never get past daytime accidents.  We don't scold her for it but it is really frustrating.  Things are better when we remind her to go but we aren't great about telling each other (my husband and I) when the last time she went was.  And SOMETIMES she goes by herself.  Fingers crossed for no accidents this weekend...[/quote]

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