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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you tried bribery/rewards? Training my DD now (similar age) and she only gets her jelly bean reward if she actually pees or poops, not just for sitting on the potty. [/quote]

+1. I knew it’s against the Oh Crap dogma, but we had a ton of success with rewards. With both my kids, they stalled out just like yours when we did the Oh Crap method to the letter. They would both hold their pee for hours and hours, even if we put them on the toilet, until they would finally just have an accident. With my first, we almost gave up after a week or two of Oh Crap and planned to restart later until we tried rewards (we got to rewards much quicker the second time around). The trick with both was finding the right reward that the kid found motivating enough. With some kids, it’s jellybeans or M&Ms, but with my son for example, it was 1-2 minute clips of Paw Patrol on YouTube that he could watch only if he peed in the potty. With both kids, we started right at 2.5 and they were essentially accident free after 1-2 weeks of training with rewards. [/quote]

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